Symptoms of membrane infection in pregnant women

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Fetal infection of pregnant women refers to the infection of pathogens through the placental barrier of pregnant women, through blood flow, lymphatic circulation or contaminated amniotic fluid. Pregnant women infected with these pathogens, although the vast majority of no obvious symptoms, but can cause fetal infection, leading to abortion, stillbirth, or neonatal infection, causing congenital defects or death. The symptoms of membrane infection in pregnant women, let me tell you.

Symptoms of membrane infection in pregnant women

Once you hear about TORCH infection in your newborn, you will shudder. Because it means that children may have congenital malformations or diseases of various organs of the body. TORCH infection includes a group of perinatal chronic non bacterial infections: t is Toxoplasma gondii, R is rubella virus, C is cytomegalovirus, h is herpes simplex virus, and O is other (such as coxsackievirus, Treponema pallidum, etc.).

Such as intrauterine growth retardation (birth weight is significantly lower than the same gestational age), anemia, skin bleeding point, jaundice, microcephaly, hydrocephalus, chorioretinitis, cataract, microphthalmos, hepatosplenomegaly, pneumonia, congenital heart disease, etc., are collectively referred to as torch syndrome. Generally speaking, Toxoplasma infection can cause extensive cerebral calcification, hydrocephalus, chorioretinitis; Rubella virus infection is easy to cause heart deformity and cataract; Cytomegalovirus infection can cause central nervous system damage, infantile hepatitis syndrome, pneumonia and deafness; Herpes simplex virus infection may include skin herpes, conjunctival keratitis, etc. encephalitis may occur in severe cases 1-4 weeks after birth; Congenital syphilis often has skin and mucous membrane damage, bone lesions, glaucoma; Coxsackie virus infection often leads to myocarditis.

The prevention measures of intrauterine infection are not perfect. For cytomegalovirus infection, high valent immunoglobulin and inactivated vaccine are ineffective, and the application of live attenuated vaccine is still difficult; For herpes simplex virus and Toxoplasma gondii infection, these two vaccines are under development; For rubella virus infection only, live attenuated rubella vaccine is available. Girls aged 15 months to 12 can be injected once, but pregnant women can not use it. Therefore, the prevention of TORCH infection should focus on the personal hygiene and protection of pregnant women.

matters needing attention

Even the uninfected baby in the uterus can be infected by the hands, droplets, appliances, clothing of the nursing staff, and even the mother's milk and blood transfusion. Therefore, we should strengthen the management of medical staff, and transfer them from their posts immediately once they are found to have virus carriers. Blood transfusion personnel should be screened for TORCH infection to prevent blood borne infection. If virus is found in the milk of lactating mother, breast-feeding should be stopped.