Keeping Healthy Flashcards

(29 cards)

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What happens if you don’t have a balanced diet?

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You will feel malnourished and get deficiency diseases

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What could we do in hospitals to stop the spread of antibiotic resistance?

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Use special hells for our hands,wipes, wear special gloves

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How can doctors prevent the development of antibiotic resistance?

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Finish the coarse, don’t give it to the people with viruses

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What do Bacteria Pathogens do to make us I’ll?

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Damage our cells and produce toxins

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Which are smaller bacteria or viruses?

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Viruses

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How do viruses replicate themselves?

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By invading your cells and producing many copies of themselves

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What would the virus do to the cells?

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Burst the cells which makes us feel ill

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Where are microorganisms grown in?

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Culture medium, usually I’m agar jelly containing the right nutrients to grow

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Where is the agar jelly poured into?

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Petri Dishes

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What are used to transfer microbes?

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Wire loops

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What do you do with the paper disks?

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Soak them in different types of antibiotics

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What will happen to the antibiotic resistant bacteria?

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It will continue to grow

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13
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Explain Cholesterol

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Can affect health, made in the liver, needed for healthy cell membranes, too much can cause the risk of heart diseases and arthritis

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Name the two types of Cholesterol

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LDL (Low Density Lipoproteins)

HDL (High Density Lipoproteins)

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Which is the best type of cholesterol and why?

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HDL because it stops fat building in arteries.

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How can white blood cells injest and destroy pathogens?

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By producing antibodies that destroys infectious microbes

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Diseases caused by bacteria

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Food Poisoning
Cholera
Typhoid
Whooping Cough

18
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Diseases cause by viruses

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Flu
Colds
Measles
Mumps

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What can white blood cells do?

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Ingest pathogens and destroy them
Produce antibodies to destroy pathogens
Counteract toxins by producing antitoxins

20
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What is the name for antibodies and antitoxins?

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Specialised Proteins

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How do Antibodies destroy Pathogens?

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Bind to pathogens and damage or destroy them

Coat pathogens so they can be ingested by white blood cells

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What are antigens?

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Certain chemicals that are foreign to the body contained by pathogens

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What are Lymphocytes?

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Certain white blood cells that can produce specific antibodies to kill a particular pathogen

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What does vaccination involve?

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Putting small amounts of an inactive form of pathogen, or dead pathogen into the body

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What does penicillin do?
Breaks down cell walls
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What should you do to stop the development of resistant bacteria?
Avoid unnecessary use of antibiotics | Complete the full course
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What is the safe temperature when growing pathogens?
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What is the temperature at which pathogens can be grown to harmful to health?
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What is a Balanced diet?
Carbs,protein,fats,minerals,vitamins,fibre,water. You need the correct amounts of all to have it 'balanced'