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Dreaded Diseases during Pregnancy
July 16th, 2010 | 
Author: HEPATITIS: The most serious complications during pregnancy are hepatitis B and C, transmitted through blood and sexual contact. Many babies of women infected with HIV are infected at birth and become chronic carriers of this disease. Since test is usually performed in the first hepatitis blood test that asks the gynecologist pregnant so, if any made, take the necessary measures.
AIDS poses a significant threat to both the mother and her child. It is advisable to carry out testing for HIV. It is increasingly common for the gynecologist ordering this test to pregnant women on their first visit although neither it nor its partner belonging to a risk group.
Rubella, or: can be very harmful to the fetus and cause serious malformations. They can also increase the risk of abortion and cause premature birth. If you have already passed or have been vaccinated, the risk that the contract and they affect your baby does not exist. If not and you contract the infection during pregnancy, sometimes there are treatments to prevent your child sick, but the best thing is to get vaccinated against these diseases before pregnancy if possible.
Toxoplasmosis: Caused by a parasite that can be contracted in the feces of cats in the land of plants and in raw or undercooked meat. The parasite can cause brain damage to the developing baby if you become infected during pregnancy. The risk of transmission is higher in the last trimester of pregnancy, but is most severe in the first three months.If pregnant once you have no choice to live every day with pets, simply follow a series of recommendations. Avoid cleaning your stools or at least wear gloves. The same if you make gardens. It is best to feed your cat or dog with canned meat. It is very important to wash hands thoroughly after contact with soil, cats, raw meat and vegetables. And as for your diet avoid eating raw, undercooked or cured meats and vegetables make sure that this well-washed fresh.
Metabolic Diseases in the Baby
In 1902 Sir Archibald Garrod noted that some of their patients had conditions that persisted throughout life and are produced by a defect in the activity of an enzyme or a transport process within the cell that results in the alteration of a metabolic pathway determined and a block on the biochemical reactions of this course and patients described what came to be called “inborn errors of metabolism”: albinism, cystinuria (disorder characterized by stones in the kidneys, ureter and bladder caused by excessive secretion certain amino acids (building blocks of proteins) due to a genetic abnormality) and alkaptonuria (rare metabolic disorder characterized by urine that turns dark on exposure to air and the development of arthritis in adulthood).
Most of these defects are inherited in an autosomal recessive or X-linked, so there is not always a history of disease in parents, only a few are inherited in dominant form.
Early detection of such conditions allows appropriate treatment early and this improves the prognosis of these patients to stop the progression of the disease and its complications and sequelae.
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AMD and Eye Care
How much you know about the care of your eyes? Like that like other parts of the body’s eyes need to prevent many diseases such as conjunctivitis, cataracts, glaucoma, myopia, problems with the layer of light-sensitive tissue; related macular degeneration with age (AMD ), among others.
Eye diseases are annoying and may even cause serious disruption to those who suffer. But many of them can be effectively treated, while others such as AMD, may delay its appearance.
In an interview Dr. Mario Mercado, cornea specialist, said the Macular Degeneration Age-related (AMD) is a degenerative disease of the central area of the retina called the macula, the part of the eye responsible for visual acuity is required for any activity that requires seeing things in some detail, such as reading or driving. “The cells of the retina, the nervous system be not be reproduced, does not regenerate,” said Dr. Mercado.
DISEASES CAUSED BY WATER POLLUTION
Of the 37 most common diseases among the population of Latin America, 21 are related to lack of water and contaminated water. Worldwide these diseases account for 25 million deaths annually.
Diseases transmitted through contaminated water may be caused by standing water with insect breeding, direct contact with water, consuming contaminated water or chemical and microbiological water misuse. Diseases transmitted through contaminated water, insects and bacteria are: cholera, typhoid and paratyphoid, bacillary and amoebic dysentery, diarrhea, infectious hepatitis, parasitic, filariasis, malaria, trypanosomiasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, trachoma, conjunctivitis and ascariasis, among other . The pool water can also transmit diseases such as athlete’s foot, septic throat, ear and eye infections. Transmitted disease, symptoms and treatment depend on the type of microorganisms present in water and its concentration.
Crimes Against Public Health
This work is the basic knowledge needed for overall treatment that the jurisprudence of TS has recently given the drug trafficking offenses. It underlines the importance of issues currently under discussion by the doctrine and the criminal organization, wiretaps and expert analysis. It also analyzes the existing case law on two procedural issues that are frequently applied in the courts, in judging a crime against public health, such as wiretapping and expert analysis, and in many cases, not complied the minimum procedural guarantees, resulting in the acquittal for the defendants, for infringement of the guarantees that are required in each case.