Hantavirus

Hantavirus

Una vez que el hantavirus llega a los pulmones puede ser muy peligroso y en más de la mitad de todos los casos mueren Cuando la infección causa insuficiencia renal, los médicos pueden tratarla con ribavirina para reducir el riesgo de muerte. Cuando la infección llega a los pulmones tienen que dar oxígeno al paciente y en el peor de los casos invacción

Las causas son la inhalación o el contacto directo como una mordedura.Los síntomas son fiebre, dolor muscular, dolores de cabeza, náuseas, vómito, dolor abdominal, diarrea y dificultad al respirar.Alrededor del 40% de todos los infectados mueren.

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Infections and defenses

Dear all

Today I invite you to view this  powerpoint presentation that I shared with you via goethemail. It summarizes more or less what we have been talking about infections, immunity and vaccines.

If you want to get more detail, you are invited to view the videos again: Kurzgesagt: the immune system and How do vaccines work?

Of course, nobody expects you to know the colour or shape of the different viruses and bacteria I show you on the slides, it is just to give you and idea about the diversity of the pathogens that cause you diseases.

To close, remember that you have hyperlinks in this text that you can click to see the powerpoint and the two videos.
Good luck and please take some minutes to read and comment the nice post from Mica and Valen about their observations. Congratulations for their engagement! Hope to see interesting posts soon from other members of the year.

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Look Around, What do you see?

The last few weeks the clases 4E and 4C have been observing some behaviors and actions from a group of persons mostly people around the age of 15. And what´s more we counted how many times anyone in that group completes one of those actions/behaviors. These are the results!!

As we can see these actions might facilitate the spreading of germs, for instance; sharing drinks. On the other hand they might stop the spreading of germ too,  an example could be sanitizing or washing our hands.

By sneezing, coughing without covering as well as sharing drinks or foods we can easily spread, through fluids, germs.  Mumps, flu and even Chickenpox are some of the diseases that can be spread by fluids like saliva. Nevertheless there are other fluids like, for example, breastmilk, that can also spread diseases.        

Velentina Arcangeli , Micaela Brasquet          

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What do we know about immunity and vaccines?

In the past lessons we have been working on the topics IMMUNITY and VACCINES.

We did some Visible Thinking Routine in teamwork:
I think -what do you know about the immune system?
Now I think- after seeing two videos what do you learned and know better?
I wonder- do you still have questions?












Let´s have some feedback about this unit! 

What did you learn and how? Did you enjoy it? Did you find it interesting? Where the videos clear? Do you consider yourself an expert immunologist?

So, last part: let`s assess you knowledge on a Google Forms!

Still need to understand some things? Don´t worry! Immune system is not an easy matter. It is complicated, we know, it needs more insight.

But how important it is to understand the importance of how our body defends itself against diseases! How important is vaccination, how important is prevention. How important is it to consider people that are vulnerable, because their immune system is affected (eg: AIDS, transplanted, elderly, babies...)

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Are the smartphones the new generation drugs?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/health/teenagers-drugs-smartphones.html?smid=tw-share&register=google

Please read this interesting article. What is your opinion?

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What will happen in our health class this year

You, the students, will be making this subject. Your interests, questions, fears, we will work on them together. My idea is that you will only be engaged if you feel yourselves part of the design.
And here is your feedback about your personal interests and inquiries on the syllabus I presented you. Thanks for getting involved!

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Finding and evaluating valuable online health resources

You feel sick. You have symptoms. A rash, fever, strange feelings, feeling sad or anxious, insomnia, headache, whatever-ache. Or some symptoms that embarass you. One of the symptoms or more, or other.
You don´t want to bother your parents, they are having enough troubles.
You grab your cell phone and search. Search terms: two or three symptoms. You see the first or in the best case, the second and third results.
Or you go to social media and find people that have the same complaints.
You will find several results. The answer might be there, but most probably not, or not completely.

So, what are the key facts to take into consideration in order to be a smart web surfer, acquire digital literacy, information literacy?

BAD NEWS: NOT ALL ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION IS ACCURATE, because:

• It might be trying to sell something
• It might be outdated, old information
• It is based on spectacular studies with promising results..... performed on animals
• It is based on data collected from.... 45 patients
• It might be (not unexcepcted in our country) that the information is biased in order to disregard the achievements of the previous government

So, how do we get access to the right information?

Never stopping to ask ourselves:

• Who runs the website? Are they trustable?
• Which is the intention? to inform the population, promotion and prevention? Or publicity?
• What does it say? Does it seem to be too good to be true?
• When has the information been published? Is it updated?
• Where did the information come from? Scientific evidence? Clinical studies?

A good start is using pages with the extension .gov, as these are governmental sources that are not intending to sell therapies or products.

However, there are many very good and interesting sources, you can start using the links suggested on this blog.

And never EVER forget that the WWW is not the only source. It is valuable, yes. But there are experts that can give you a much better insight considering the patient as a whole.

Credits and source: NCCIH, @langwitches

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