Question:
In which of the following case do you think the long-term effects on your health are likely to be most unpleasant? a. if you get jaundice, b. if you get lice, c. if you get acne. Why?
Answer:
(a) Jaundice is a chronic disease in which liver is affected. Jaundice has long-term effects on the body. It will take a long time to recover. (b) Lice can be treated easily and have short-term effect on our health. (c) Acne may exist for a longer time but do not have any adverse effect on our health.
Why Do We Fall Ill?
Q 1.
Give two examples for each of the following :
(a) Acute diseases
(b) Chronic diseases
(c) Infectious diseases
(d) Non-infectious diseases.
Q 2.
Give two examples of bacterial antibiotics.
Q 3.
Name a disease which was earlier considered to be chronic but now can be treated in short duration?
Q 4.
Which amongst the two diseases : acute or chronic has adverse effect on the health of a person? Explain giving a suitable example.
Q 5.
What is inflammation ? Write the symptoms of this in human body.
Q 6.
Give an example of fungal antibiotic.
Q 7.
Name the vector which causes malaria.
Q 8.
Majority of children in many parts of India are already immune to Hepatitis A by the time they are five years old. Why ?
Q 9.
Why Colostrum is good for infants?
Q 10.
Differentiate between acute diseases and chronic diseases.
Q 11.
(i) Why a person suffering from AIDS cannot fight even small infections ?
(ii) In a slum area, many people are suffering from malaria. Mention any two unhygienic conditions that must be prevailing in that locality.
(iii) Why female Anopheles mosquito feeds on human blood ? [SAII – 2014]
Q 12.
List any three reasons why you would think that you are sick and ought to see a doctor. If only one of these symptoms were present, would you still go to the doctor ? Why or why not ?
Q 13.
Classify infectious agents into different categories and also mention the diseases caused by them.
Q 14.
In which of the following case do you think the long-term effects on your health are likely to be most unpleasant? a. if you get jaundice, b. if you get lice, c. if you get acne. Why?
Q 15.
Becoming exposed to or infected with an infectious microbe (toes not necessarily mean developing noticeable disease. Explain.
Q 16.
Define Health? What do you interpret when we say a person is in good health?
Q 17.
State any two conditions essential for being free of disease.
Q 18.
Why is it important that we think of these categories of infectious agents?
Q 19.
Name the vector that can cause sleeping sickness.
Q 20.
What do signs and symptoms indicate if a person is suffering from any disease ? [SAII -2014]
Q 21.
Differentiate between communicable and non-communicable diseases. Give one example of each.
Q 22.
A baby is not able to tell her/his caretakers that she/he is sick. What would help us to find out (a) that the baby is sick? (b) what is the sickness?
Q 23.
Why are we normally advised to take bland and nourishing food when we are sick?
Q 24.
How can we prevent water borne and vector borne infections ?
Q 25.
A baby is not able to tell her / his caretakers that she / he is sick. What would help us to find out:
(a) that the baby is sick ?
(b) what is the sickness ?
Q 26.
What do you mean by immune response ? , [SAII – 2014]
Q 27.
What precautions will you take to justify “prevention is better than cure” ?
Q 28.
What is a balanced diet?
Q 29.
Differentiate between Acute Diseases and Chronic Diseases.
Q 30.
What are congenital diseases? Give two examples of such disease.
Q 31.
Name the protozoan pathogen that causes kala-azar.
Q 32.
What do you mean by Phagocytosis?
Q 33.
What is the purpose of vaccination ?
Q 34.
(i) Which bacterium causes peptic ulcers ?
(ii) Who discovered the above pathogen for the first time ?
Q 35.
List any four essential factors that must be taken icare of by an individual for keeping good health.
Q 36.
What is an antibiotic ? Give its one example.
Q 37.
What is '
germ theory of disease'? Who proposed it?
Q 38.
What is colostrum? Why is mother's milk strongly advised to newborns?
Q 39.
Why do people staying in air-conditioned homes/offices catch cold more often?
Q 40.
Write differences between 'Being Healthy' and 'Disease Free'.
Q 41.
Many vaccines form the public health programme of childhood immunisation for preventing infectious disease. Name any two such diseases.
Q 42.
Name any two diseases which are caused due to unprotected sexual intercourse.
Q 43.
What is an antibiotic ? Give two examples.
Q 44.
Name any four diseases transmitted through vectors.
Q 45.
(i) What is an epidemic disease ?
(ii) Which organ is affected if a person is suffering from jaundice ?
Q 46.
Why are we normally advised, to take bland and nourishing food when we are sick ? [SAII – 2011, 2013]
Q 47.
Under which of the following conditions are you most likely to fall sick ?
(a) when you are taking examinations.
(b) when you have travelled by bus and train for two days.
(c) when your friend is suffering from measles. Why ?
Q 48.
(a) What is immunisation ?
(b) Define immunity and vaccination.
(c) Define vaccine. .
(d) What type of diseases can be prevented through vaccination ? [SAII -2013]
Q 49.
Why is AIDS considered to be a ‘Syndrome’ and not a disease ?
Q 50.
Who discovered ‘vaccine’ for the first time ? Name two diseases which can be prevented by using vaccines.
