Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Effects of urinary tract infections in pregnant women

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Women who experience antepartum infection during pregnancy or childbirth, especially urinary tract infections (UTI), will be more likely to have children with asthma, this is according to a study Dr. Charlene Hooper, of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut is presented at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' (ACOG) 59th Annual Clinical Meeting. In the study reported that an increased risk of asthma in children of women who are undiagnosed infection before delivery.

In this study involving as many as 1428 pregnant women, who then followed the group of their descendants through structured interviews and records until their children reach the age of 6 years. Asthma is defined by
physician diagnosis and symptoms at the age of 6 years. Of the total of 635 (44.5%) women, as many as 21.1% had experienced respiratory tract infections, urinary tract infections 19%, 13.9% experienced gynecologic infections, and 4.8% occurred chorioamnionitis during pregnancy. Berebagai infection according to Dr. Charlene Hooper can cause asthma in children birth to, but only urinary tract infections that significantly increase the risk of asthma in child birth.
It also found that, although the rectovaginal colonization caused by Streptococcus group B reported to reach 20.9% of these women, but this is not associated or increase the risk of asthma in children birth.
The researchers concluded that, immunity from the mother or fetus and the inflammatory response to urinary tract pathogens and changes of microflora Akiba tinfeksi and antibiotic exposure may be a unique condition as of the occurrence of allergic predisposition of the offspring.

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