Smoking during pregnancy Like drinking too much alcohol or doing drugs, smoking is also very harmful to your health. It can cause serious health conditions including cancer, heart disease, stroke and gum disease. It can also cause eye diseases that can lead to blindness. Smoking can make it harder for a woman to get pregnant. Smoking and your baby Not only is smoking harmful to you, it's also harmful to your baby during pregnancy.
Secondly, parents should oppose vaccinating their children as a way of protection from developing autism because of the significant step of banning mercury from being included in vaccines, which was taken by the US government related to this matter (Campbell, 2004). Although the government did not openly admit that mercury poisoning could be a possible cause behind the autism epidemic, parents must remain aware to the fact that if this issue was serious enough for such action to be taken, then vaccinations are not as safe for children as health authorities want everyone to believe. Finally, parents should not vaccinate their children if they want to protect them from developing autism because enough evidence exists to support the claim that vaccinations could be to blame for the rise in autism (Kirby,
Illicit use of these drugs can lead to low birth weight, breathing difficulties, death, and of course the possibility of the baby being born addicted to the drug. Drug addictions in infants present themselves as irritability, fevers, and piercing cries. More specifically, cocaine use during pregnancy can cause physical deformities in the child’s eyes, bones, genitals, urinary tract, kidneys and heart and acute growth retardation. They may also experience seizures and hemorrhages. While many people believe that marijuana may not be as harmful as these other drugs, it can still affect the infant in a few ways.
Other related effects that include a higher incidence of cot death and asthma. This happens because the chemicals the woman are putting into there body’s will cause their developing fetus long term health problems. The chemicals going into the body are carbon monoxide, nicotine and cyanide. If woman take drugs they get into the bloodstream and cross the placenta. These drugs are ones that are not prescribed and are illegal.
There is a lot of controversy over the uses of PGD, and it has been banned in several countries because some people believe it is unethical and “playing god.” PGD does not genetically alter embryos in any way. It simply tests the embryos for a genetic disease and then with the results, a healthy embryo is implanted and the rest are donated to research, or destroyed. In no way is it creating or changing anyone. The healthy embryo that is implanted is still one of the parent’s children. The parents simply chose not to develop their other unhealthy embryos.
The secondary cause is related to an existing infection or disease. Each of these are caused by different irritants that result in the same disruption of normal perfusion. The attacks on the lung lead to alveolar inflammation and edema that causes low ventilation and blood and fluid to be pushed into the capillaries. This leads to a stasis in the lung’s gas perfusion and creates a pressure that makes it harder for the individual to breath (Anatomical Chart Company, 2010, p. 100). The first signs and symptoms of any infection should immediately be put to the attention of the health care provider.
Programs have been created to try and stop the spread of this disease and many other diseases around the world. HIV/AIDS may cause a negative uproar in any room and some people may look at you differently if you have this disease. This is why people are skeptical about informing others of their illness. Driscoll and Carson-Dewitt wrote that people don’t even want to go get tested because they think that if someone would find out about their condition, they will alienate them. The authors also say that people do not want to feel pressured or forced to get tested because people do not want to feel as if it is a requirement; but it is.
An uncommon symptom is pain or swelling in the testicles. Symptoms that affect both men and women who have anal intercourse may experience infection in the rectum, which can cause rectal pain, discharge, or bleeding. Chlamydia can also be found in the throats of women and men having oral sex with an infected partner. 4. How is the disease treated?
Developing a Thesis Statement ENG/102 Developing a Thesis Statement Many people are convinced that their child’s autism was caused by immunizations, although there is no real evidence that supports this theory. This belief has led to a dangerous trend that has been driven by false data, and the media. Unfortunately this has led to outbreaks in preventable diseases and poses a danger to others. Refusing to immunize not only causes a health risk for the child that is not vaccinated, but to the rest of the community as well, particularly very young children who have yet to be immunized, and the elderly. Immunizations are not the cause of rising cases of autism, and in fact, not immunizing has caused outbreaks of certain other diseases.
Wound Dressings: Wet to Dry According to the article, “The issues surrounding the continued use of saline soaked gauze dressings”, using wet to dry dressings for wounds healing by second intention may actually have a detrimental effect on wound healing and patient comfort. The article stated that saline soaked dressings may prolong inflammation by adhering to granulation tissue during debridement causing the wound to return to an earlier inflammatory stage. The author also states that this will also cause increased pain for the patient. In addition, debridement in this manner can also cause dehydration of the wound and cause further pain by exposing nerve endings to air and cold saline several times a day during dressing change. Also mentioned, is the increased risk of localized hypothermia and risk for infection as wet gauze to the wound can cause vasoconstriction and in theory, also decrease leukocyte mobility and efficiency of phagocytes.