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Vaccination of women has an important role in controlling diseases that are preventable. Not only does protect against infection risk, it prevents transmission to the unborn child.

Most live vaccines are contraindicated in pregnancy. Examples include measles, rubella and mumps.

Inactivated viral vaccines such as influenza, or developed from bacteria or their toxins, such as tetanus, can be applied during pregnancy or earlier.

Recommended vaccines before pregnancy

It is important to perform a blood test to see if women of childbearing age had rubella or not. If the result is negative, should receive the vaccine.

The blood test is also useful to determine if a woman is protected against measles, chickenpox and hepatitis B. The doctor may also evaluate the final implementation of the adult tetanus / Double (diphtheria-tetanus), or MMR.

If you have to apply the tetanus-diphtheria vaccine is preferred for bacterial cellular triple (diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough) because, at present, many people have lost the antibodies used in defense against this disease that could be severe in newborns or during the first months of life of the child.

It is important to remember that it is better to spend a month between the application of vaccines against rubella and chickenpox, and the beginning of pregnancy. In the case of immunization against hepatitis B and diphtheria-tetanus, there are no restrictions for conception.

The nails may suffer from various ailments and diseases. Also, can reveal to an expert health disorders in other parts of the body, showing signs of a possible problem elsewhere in the body.

Many times we pay no attention, beyond the aesthetic to this part of our body and yet we tend to stay healthy and be alert to any changes that may occur in morphology, color or appearance. It is important to tell your doctor about any alteration. The specialist, dermatologist mainly through a small exploration of the nails may determine whether any health problem that affects one’s fingernails or, if on the contrary, there is a problem in another part of our body. While it is true that a change in the nails often do not have to be significant if it helps to sense some other problem, so they are very valuable tools in determining the overall health status.

Symptoms anomalous in our fingernails and before which we ask our doctor are: spots, dark spots, skin separation, peeling, thin white lines, bends, thinning, yellowing, stunted growth, rising end, bleeding, inflammation of the edges or pink bands at the edges.

It is very important, good hygiene and care of our nails and prevents problems which may affect them. It is very important to keep nails clean, dry and cut. We must avoid a common practice, which is cutting the cuticle, and that can benefit the development of infections.

Some of the problems of the nails are caused by the presence of bacteria, fungi, ingrown toenails, tumors or warts. But as we said, there are a number of signs or symptoms in our nails can indicate the presence of a general health problem:

- If our nail has a concave shape with rising on both sides, may be due to lack of iron in the body or anemia, heart disease, hypothyroidism or malnutrition.

- If there is some bleeding under the nail can be caused by trauma or an internal cause, so it is important to tell your specialist.

- Greater curvature of the nail and an overgrowth of connective tissue and swelling of the finger are all signs of any type of failure: lung, heart, liver, gastrointestinal and renal. Read the rest of this entry »

UGT is essential to put in the hands of workers the necessary tools to achieve better working conditions that result in higher levels of health and safety for all. Knowing what the potential health damage we are facing will help us become more involved in achieving more realistic risk assessments tailored to the specific circumstances of each worker in his job.

Aware of the need to promote awareness-information to prevent risks in the workplace, UGT has decided to make this campaign through a bus-class that will cover different points of all the autonomous communities, including the Canaries, under the slogan “Manu a Manu for the Prevention, Manu a Manu for your health and safety.”

The objectives of this campaign is to disseminate and inform workers about the existence of ergonomic and psychosocial risks and the reality of Diseases, stressing the need for health surveillance is carried out based on preventive approach . Furthermore, it is to sensitize stakeholders in the prevention of occupational hazards that ergonomic and psychosocial risks and diseases are preventable through proper monitoring of health, integrated prevention planning company.

This classroom-Geauga is an articulated vehicle 18 meters long and 2.5 meters wide, equipped with two rooms that are two clerical positions complete with waiting room and reading, in addition to mobile internet connection and lifting platform people with disabilities, and to have various materials related to the Prevention of Occupational Risks.