Question

41. Each year it is recommended that certain groups of people receive flu vaccines. Who is on the list? Who should NOT get it? 42. Should a pregnant woman get the influenza vaccine. Explain your answer. 43. Define oxygen toxicity. What are the signs and symptoms? 44, Explain how diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, syphilis can affect a fetus.

Answer 1

41. Influenza vaccine is recommended for all persons aged more than 6 months who do not have contraindications.

42. Yes pregnant women should get influenza vaccine. Pregnant women are at a higher risk to be affected by flu due to changes in immune system. The flu can also affect the developing fetus and cause neural tube defects. The vaccine protects the pregnant women and the fetus against flu. vaccination can also help protect the baby after birth from flu.

43. Oxygen toxicity results from the harmful effects of breathing molecular oxygen at increased partial pressures.

The symptoms include nausea, vomiting, lip twitching, euphoria, vertigo, dizziness, drowsiness, seizures.

44. Diseases like mumps, measles, rubella and syphilis affects the pregnant women and developing fetus severely.

These diseases can increases risk of still birth and miscarriage. It can cause severe birth defects like :

• Deafness
• Cataracts
• Heart defects
• Intellectual disabilities
• Liver and spleen damage
• Low birth weight
• Skin rash at birth
• Glaucoma
• Brain damage
• Thyroid and other hormone problems
• Inflammation of the lungs