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Swine flu warning for pregnant women
By Di Bain for The World Today
Obstetricians are urging pregnant women to stay home and even bring forward their maternity leave plans to avoid catching swine flu.
The deadly virus is rapidly spreading in Australia and 11 pregnant women are fighting for their lives or in intensive care, while hospital emergency departments struggle to keep up.
As the number of confirmed swine flu cases in Australia marches beyond 10,000, pregnant women are beginning to present at emergency wards.
It is understood that in Victoria, the state which has had the most swine flu related deaths, two women were fighting for their lives in intensive care units last night after giving birth.
The situation in New South Wales is worse - Jeremy McAnulty from the New South Wales Health Service, says doctors are being extra cautious when pregnant women suffer flu-like symptoms.
"My understanding is that there are five in intensive care and four on life support in western Sydney at the moment," he said.
"Of course it is concerning when people are in intensive care, but I guess we have known from seasonal influenza, even before human swine flu, that influenza can be quite a severe illness in pregnant women, particularly in second and third trimesters.
"It's probably related to their immunity changes and their whole system is being overloaded by the pregnancy, and when influenza is on top of that it, can have a big effect on their system and their health."
'Stay at home'
Professor Brian Trudinger from Westmead Hospital in Sydney says staff are trying to manage two pregnant women with swine flu who are in intensive care.
He says most pregnant women in general will not get sick but they should be vigilant because swine flu is much more virulent than the normal flu.
"It's dangerous because ... in pregnancy your body does much more work," he said.
"In other words, things like heart output is increased and blood flow to various organs is increased, blood flow to the placenta is increased and so on, and so if you get a febrile illness on top of that, your body also has to do more work because of the febrile illness.
"So you get one load on top of another load and so you become particularly unwell |
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