Prenatal healthcare

Question 1

One of the best predictors of delivering healthy, full-term babies is

Answer 1

five or more visits to a doctor or healthcare facility beginning in the first trimester of pregnancy.

Question 2

Why is prenatal care so important?

Answer 2

Along with good nutrition, adequate prenatal healthcare is associated with the delivery of healthy babies

Question 3

What does good prenatal care include?

Answer 3

• A full medical examination

-Advice about the value of exercise and good nutrition

-The need to avoid the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs

-Reduction in vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, diphtheria, and type b meningitis have lowered infant mortality rates

Question 4

What are some illegal drugs that affect pregnancies?

Answer 4

-Amphetamines- can cause spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, or prematurity

-Cocaine: physical & psychological effects

-Marijuana: congenital anomalies

-Narcotics: Behavioral disturbances, babies are smaller than normal, have drug withdrawal symptoms ie, low appetite, sleep patterns are disturbed

Question 5

What are some legal drugs that can cause issues in pregnancy?

Answer 5

Alcohol- Can cause fetal alcohol syndrome(FAS) and less severe fetal syndrome (FAE)

Caffeine- in tea and soft drinks can retard prenatal growth, produce a slightly increased risk of miscarriage

Over-the-counter drugs

Prescription Medications

Tobacco

Tranquilizers and sleeping pills

Question 6

Effects of over-the-counter drugs

Answer 6

• Analgesics, cough medicines, laxatives, and allergy pills are unsafe

-Aspirin in large doses can cause excessive bleeding and other problems

-Cough syrups, and antacids can be unsafe

-Vitamins are risky if taken in excess

Question 7

Prescription medications effects

Answer 7

-known teratogenic effects
- Should be monitored carefully by physician

Question 8

tobacco effects

Answer 8

-birth problems
-congential anomalies(low birth rate, premature)

Question 9

Sleeping pills, tranquilizers

Answer 9

_ if taken shortly before delivery can cause baby to be born sedated, increase risk of respiratory distress and anoxia

Question 10

What are the dangerous environmental agents

Answer 10

• Air pollultants
  -Mercury, lead, and other pollutants
  -PCBs
  -Radiation

Question 11

air pollutants effects

Answer 11

• NO2, sulfur dioxide, Carbon monoxide increase in miscarriage

Question 12

Mercury, lead and other pollutants effects

Answer 12

• mental retardation
  -neurological impairment

Question 13

PCBs effects

Answer 13

-delayed growth
-neurological impairments

Question 14

Radiation effects

Answer 14

-microcephaly,
-intellectual disability
-Skeletal malformations