Are STIs transferred to my baby through my milk?
October 4, 2008
Such awful things happen in life! When I discovered that my husband was having an affair for the past six months while I had been nursing my 17 month baby. I was shattered and the same time apprehensive of the fact that my baby could catch an infection, sexually transmitted. I might have contracted that from her father and this was in course of time transferred through breast milk. My husband tells me that they had undergone safe sex. But there is only some thing called safer sex. My baby’s health is top priority. So when I had a talk with the doctor, I came to know everything about STIs.
I came to know that there are more than twenty STIs that are transmitted through semen, blood, vaginal fluid during any sort of sexual contact. HPV, Herpes and others are contacted through the interoucrse, kissing and also direct contact with affected areas. STIs will first cause no problem but if they are left unattended, ectopic pregnancy, sterility, pelvic disease, cervical cancers are the outcome. Most STIs have remedies.
Out of the STIs AIDS is the most serious and there is no remedy. Breast feeding can cause transmission. The transmission method can is higher in HIV. There are other STIslike genital warts, genital herpes but medication can remove all symptoms. The mother should always be careful to wash hands and should not fondle the baby till the lesions are dried. The most common disease is Chlamydia in which babies are notaffected through breast feeding. Gonorrhoea is also transmitted through sexual contact and can spread through breast feeding. Syphilis can be remedied with antibiotics, and in this case breast feeding can continue Condoms should be used for making love as not test is full proof. Hepatitis can be transmitted through sexual contact and there is no cure for that for which the infant should be vaccinated first.
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