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 launch during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, and further display supports that advice. Norwegian researchers have found that vaccination in pregnancy was safe for origin and child, and that fetal deaths were more common among unvaccinated moms-to-be. Influenza is a serious intimation 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 look at indicates that influenza during pregnancy was a risk factor for stillbirth during the pandemic in 2009".

And "We judge no indication that pandemic vaccination in the second or third trimester increased the risk of stillbirth". With this year's flu pummeling many folk across the United States, experts reveal the best way a pregnant woman can protect her unborn baby from flu complications is by getting a flu shot. "In adding to protecting the mother against severe influenza, the vaccine protects the fetus and the lassie 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 spot for everyone over 6 months of age. Besides replete 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 crew cool data on more than 117000 women in Norway who were pregnant between 2009 and 2010 - the take of the H1N1 pandemic. The investigators found the rate of fetal deaths was almost five per 1000 women.

During the pandemic, 54 percent of the women were vaccinated during their another and third trimester, which greatly reduced their hazard of contracting the flu, the study authors noted. For women who did get the flu, the chance of fetal death increased dramatically, the researchers found. Among vaccinated women, the jeopardy of fetal death was far less.

Fetal death was defined as any recorded miscarriage or stillbirth after the oldest trimester. Moreover, the vaccine was safe, wasn't linked to fetal deaths, and may have reduced the danger of fetal death.

Experts weren't surprised by the results. "This study confirms what we already know, that pregnancy is a threatening time for the flu, and H1N1 was particularly problematic for pregnant women," said Dr Marc Siegel, an ally professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. The flu is especially chancy for pregnant women because the virus can way through the placental barrier and infect the fetus.

This can result in fetal death or developmental problems, including certifiable development. "It's crucial for pregnant women to get a flu shot. It's substantial to educate women, and this study helps," he added, noting some women may need convincing because they've been told to shun certain medications during pregnancy.

Another expert, Dr Loralei Thornburg, aid professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY, said the body's effect to infection changes during pregnancy. "It's kind of an immunosuppressant. So when you get a bad virus in pregnancy, your body doesn't have the same aptitude to respond. Preventing infection in pregnancy is really the key" home. The bottom line: "Every girl should get the flu vaccine".