The flu is perhaps the most dangerous in pregnancy.
It is an acute infectious disease, highly contagious, caused by influenza virus, a virus with many variants but less durable. It is generally transmitted from person to person with a high infectiousness, generating frequent epidemics. The source is a disease send by patients directly, through sneezing, coughing, speaking v
ery slowly and ,indirectly through recently affected and infected articles . It happens that the disease can be contacted and in some animals or birds. Attention: A pregnant woman should take extra care. The virus enters through the respiratory mucosa, there multiply and cause inflammatory and toxic phenomena. Rarely can penetrate into the blood.
Most pregnant women suffering from the flu can lead the pregnancy period and the risk of birth defects, premature birth, intrauterine growth delay, death in uteri, leukemia and schizophrenia later in childhood or adult is small. From existing data up to now is not clear if there is a risk in the occurrence of fetal malformations. Some studies indicate a risk of one per cent, others do not identify any risk for influenza infection during the first trimester. It is said the most likely, if this risk exists, it is very small, especially if you take into consideration that every pregnancy is a risk arising between 3 and 5 percent for congenital malformations. Children born to mothers with chronic respiratory diseases complicated by influenza have low birth weight, more especially if their mothers smoke, and a higher hospitalization in the intensive newborns care .
Methods of prevention and treatment
You should prepare in advance the body resistance to infection, before of the coming cold season. And even if you contract the virus, it can occur in a milder form. Therefore you must eat healthy, with as many vitamins, especially C and E, minerals like selenium, zinc, etc.. You should eat garlic, is a very important article in preventing influenza. Make sports daily. Avoid crowded places and contact with patients, especially during epidemics. Watch out as you can of fatigue and stress (especially during pregnancy), they reduce immunity and create good environment for the flu.