Question

The CDC is reporting a particularly virulent flu season. How is the respiratory system affected by influenza? What role do intact mucus and skin membranes have in helping us to ward of infection? The cardiovascular and respiratory systems are closely linked. Explain this dynamic connection.The CDC is reporting a particularly virulent flu season. How is the respiratory system affected by influenza? What role do intact mucus and skin membranes have in helping us to ward of infection? The cardiovascular and respiratory systems are closely linked. Explain this dynamic connection.

Answer 1

-The RNA in the Influenza Virus acts on the lung tissues resulting in symptoms such as fever, chills, cough, sore throat, running nose, body aches, headaches and fatigue. Sometimes influenza may lead to pneumonia.

- Mucous membrane the moist linings of the respiratory system produces mucus which produces antiseptic enzymes (such as lysozymes), immunoglobulins, and glycoproteins. The skin membranes acts as the outermost shield of prevention from bacteria.

- The Cardiovascular System (CVS) and the Respiratory System (RS) are closely linked by the means of the Pulmonic Circulation.

• Venous Blood (deoxygenated) flows from the Superior and the Inferior Venecava Flows to the Rt Atrium Flows through the Bicuspid valves reaches the right ventricle flows through the pulmonic valves through the pulmonary arteries to the the LT and the RT lungs where the gaseous exchange takes place blood flows (oxygenated) from lungs through the pulmonary veins reaches the LT Atrium flows through the Mitral Valve Blood at LT Atrium flows through Aortic valve to other parts of the body.
• Here in the above flow chart we can see the relation heart and the lungs has with each other. Its for the gaseous exchnage purpose.