HYGIENIC PROBLEMS OF SECURING THE DRINKING CONDITIONS AT THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND MEASURES OF THEIR SOLUTION

A.E. Podrushnyak, V.V. Shkuro, V.P. Kulchitska, N.O. Stadnichuk, E.V. Goncharuk, N.I. Turta

Although drinking water is not among the foodstuffs, because it doesn't have food value, it is the most important substances that supplies vital process in the organism.
Securing the drinking conditions in the most schools of general education is very poor. Conditions for drinking water are absent (there are no drinking fountains), there are no things for storing the drinking water. Children can drink water only in the dining room or in the lunchroom.

With the purpose of study the drinking water use by pupils of primary school there were carried out investigations by questionnaire method. During the research work 57 parents and 84 children in age from 6 till 10 years old from Kyiv schools of general education were questioned. The analysis of the interrogation had showed that only 36,8% of parents from all the questioned people are worried about the securing drinking water for their child and drinking water availability at the educational institution.

It is necessary to develop such standards of organizing the surroundings, especially conditions of drinking water use at the educational institutions, which would provide the best vital activity of a child's organism, his/her state of health. It is necessary to teach children how to observe the right drinking conditions — to distract them from a bad habit to drink without a need of it or to drink during the meal.

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