Keeping Healthy Flashcards
What happens if you don’t have a balanced diet?
You will feel malnourished and get deficiency diseases
What could we do in hospitals to stop the spread of antibiotic resistance?
Use special hells for our hands,wipes, wear special gloves
How can doctors prevent the development of antibiotic resistance?
Finish the coarse, don’t give it to the people with viruses
What do Bacteria Pathogens do to make us I’ll?
Damage our cells and produce toxins
Which are smaller bacteria or viruses?
Viruses
How do viruses replicate themselves?
By invading your cells and producing many copies of themselves
What would the virus do to the cells?
Burst the cells which makes us feel ill
Where are microorganisms grown in?
Culture medium, usually I’m agar jelly containing the right nutrients to grow
Where is the agar jelly poured into?
Petri Dishes
What are used to transfer microbes?
Wire loops
What do you do with the paper disks?
Soak them in different types of antibiotics
What will happen to the antibiotic resistant bacteria?
It will continue to grow
Explain Cholesterol
Can affect health, made in the liver, needed for healthy cell membranes, too much can cause the risk of heart diseases and arthritis
Name the two types of Cholesterol
LDL (Low Density Lipoproteins)
HDL (High Density Lipoproteins)
Which is the best type of cholesterol and why?
HDL because it stops fat building in arteries.
How can white blood cells injest and destroy pathogens?
By producing antibodies that destroys infectious microbes
Diseases caused by bacteria
Food Poisoning
Cholera
Typhoid
Whooping Cough
Diseases cause by viruses
Flu
Colds
Measles
Mumps
What can white blood cells do?
Ingest pathogens and destroy them
Produce antibodies to destroy pathogens
Counteract toxins by producing antitoxins
What is the name for antibodies and antitoxins?
Specialised Proteins
How do Antibodies destroy Pathogens?
Bind to pathogens and damage or destroy them
Coat pathogens so they can be ingested by white blood cells
What are antigens?
Certain chemicals that are foreign to the body contained by pathogens
What are Lymphocytes?
Certain white blood cells that can produce specific antibodies to kill a particular pathogen
What does vaccination involve?
Putting small amounts of an inactive form of pathogen, or dead pathogen into the body
What does penicillin do?
Breaks down cell walls
What should you do to stop the development of resistant bacteria?
Avoid unnecessary use of antibiotics
Complete the full course
What is the safe temperature when growing pathogens?
25
What is the temperature at which pathogens can be grown to harmful to health?
37
What is a Balanced diet?
Carbs,protein,fats,minerals,vitamins,fibre,water. You need the correct amounts of all to have it ‘balanced’
