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| Flu Mother Risk |
Pregnant women who suffer from the flu, the risk for children who have schizophrenia. If the mother was suffering from flu, while mid-pregnancy, the child would risk up to three times as schizophrenic, compared with mothers who do not get colds.
But overall, this risk is sufficiently small. 97 percent of babies born to women suffering from flu at the pregnancy time , not schizophrenic. Only a small baby who suffered from schizophrenia, and in theory, because the fetus that is genetically susceptible to damage caused by the flu. Antibodies are produced by maternal immune system, called Sitokins, which is the mother's body response to influenza virus infection, will enter into the body of the fetus through the placenta and damage fetal brain development. Medium other researchers, suggests that the possible role of viruses in mental illness.
Research was conducted on approximately 189 women, 64 of them have children with schizophrenia, and 125 remaining, are not suffering from schizophrenia. Examples of blood serum from pregnant mothers were taken in the year 1959 - 1966, to view the content of their antibodies against flu virus strain.
Compared with mothers who are not infected with flu virus, flu-infected women during mid-pregnancy, have up to three-fold risk for schizophrenia. Risk will increase to seven-fold, when the mother is infected in the first trimester of pregnancy, which is a critical period of fetal development. But this result can not be verified, since few samples of a pregnant mother's blood during the first trimester.
This study supports previous research, which connects with the flu while pregnant schizofrenia or risk increases when pregnant women suffering from the flu because of the flu outbreak. Avian be one risk factor of several other risk factors for the occurrence of schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is a mental illness is the hardest, with symptoms of hallucinations, thought disorder, which is not normal behavior. Usually appears first during adolescence or young adulthood.
Source: Archives of General Psychiatry
