Swine Flu: Inoculation In The Pregnancy?
October 11th 2009 -
Despite all anticipation most pregnant women at least occasionally of different fears troubled also without the momentarily raging pig flu. Now also still the concern is added, which actually happens, if one is infected as a pregnant woman with the pig flu. Is it harmful for the baby? Are the flu medicines how dangerous? Should one be able to be inoculated rather directly, as soon as the vaccine comes? In addition, parents of infants are concerned, nevertheless the immune system of the youngest ones not yet fully developed. Urbia to the topic new flu presents the opinions from experts regarding pregnant woman and infants.
Experts guess/advise to flu medicines
Unfortunately pregnant woman does not profit always from the fact that the infection runs with most cases of pig flu rather mild. Becoming mothers have a quadruple increased risk for the fact that a H1N1-Infection runs heavily, and that life-threatening pneumonias and breath problems arise, stress the professional association of the gynecologists (BVF) in Munich with reference to a study, which was presented in the US trade paper Lancet. Researchers had examined thereby the number of the heavily gotten sick ones and dead ones among the pregnant women in the USA. Reason for the special endangerment in the pregnancy is that the defense forces are often weakened with pregnant women and that lung and heart are anyway already burdening by the pregnancy, an infection of the respiratory system thus more badly away-put can. High fever can disturb the development of the baby in the early pregnancy, in which it can release later pregnancy a wrongly or a prematurity. Some specialists fear also that the placenta could be impaired by the viruses.
Most experts guess/advise therefore to treat pregnant woman with the first signs of a flu infection as soon as possible with Tamiflu or Relenza. Also the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends to give within the first 48 hours an antiviral means. Pregnant ones with flu symptoms should in any case Tamiflu to be used up be able, find also Bernhard Joachim Hackelöer of the German society for gynecology and birth assistance. But these medicines were not examined yet explicitly for their side effects for pregnant woman and unborn one. However so far no complications became with mother and unborn one admit, if the means were taken. Despite the uncertainty a use risk consideration seems to fail in favor of the medicines. Some physicians recommend in addition also a preventive income, if the pregnant woman had contact to a gotten sick one.
Tags: inoculation, placenta, swine flu, WHO
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