Doctors Recommend That Pregnant Women Have To Make A Flu Shot

Doctors Recommend That Pregnant Women Have To Make A Flu Shot.
Pregnant women were urged to get a flu snapshot during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, and fresh suggestion supports that advice. Norwegian researchers have found that vaccination in pregnancy was safe for materfamilias and child, and that fetal deaths were more common among unvaccinated moms-to-be. Influenza is a serious forewarning to a pregnant woman and her unborn child, said Dr Camilla Stoltenberg, director vague of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo, lead researcher of the new study. "Our contemplate indicates that influenza during pregnancy was a risk factor for stillbirth during the pandemic in 2009".

And "We feel no indication that pandemic vaccination in the second or third trimester increased the risk of stillbirth". With this year's flu pummeling many persons across the United States, experts vote the best way a pregnant woman can protect her unborn baby from flu complications is by getting a flu shot. "In ell to protecting the mother against severe influenza, the vaccine protects the fetus and the teenager in the first months after birth, when the child is too young to be vaccinated".

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends a flu sharpshooter for everyone over 6 months of age. Besides expectant women, the CDC says the elderly and anyone with a chronic condition such as asthma or diabetes are especially vulnerable to infection.

For the study, published Jan 16, 2013 in the New England Journal of Medicine, Stoltenberg's tandem serene data on more than 117000 women in Norway who were pregnant between 2009 and 2010 - the opportunity of the H1N1 pandemic. The investigators found the rate of fetal deaths was almost five per 1000 women.

Environmental Contaminants Affects Unborn Baby

Environmental Contaminants Affects Unborn Baby.
A abounding woman's laying open to environmental contaminants affects her unborn baby's heart rate and movement, a new about says in June 2013. "Both fetal motor activity and heart rate communicate how the fetus is maturing and give us a way to evaluate how exposures may be affecting the developing nervous system," boning up lead author Janet DiPietro, associate dean for research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said in a style news release. The researchers analyzed blood samples from 50 high- and low-income fertile women in and around Baltimore and found that they all had detectable levels of organochlorines, including DDT, PCBs and other pesticides that have been banned in the United States for more than 30 years.

High-income women had a greater concentration of chemicals than low-income women. The blood samples were cool at 36 weeks of pregnancy, and measurements of fetal nerve evaluate and movement also were taken at that time, according to the study, which was published online in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology 2013.