Signs And Symptoms Of Listeria In Pregnancy
Listeriosis is a serious infection that you can get by eating food contaminated with the bacterium listeria monocytogenes.
Signs and symptoms of listeria in pregnancy. However about one in three pregnant women don t have any symptoms at all okike et al. Symptoms of listeriosis may show up 2 30 days after exposure. While the odds of being infected with listeriosis is still very very low it is significantly 13 times higher during pregnancy and the potential of its causing problems in pregnancy is higher. Symptoms in pregnant women include mild flu like symptoms headaches muscle aches fever nausea and vomiting.
Very rarely the infection spreads to your blood or nervous system and becomes severe kourtis et al. Pregnant women and their developing babies as well as newborns people with weakened immune systems and the elderly are particularly susceptible to listeria which can cause a blood infection meningitis and other serious and potentially life threatening. Listeriosis is usually caught from eating food containing listeria bacteria. Listeria is a type of bacteria that causes an infection called listeriosis.
Symptoms during pregnancy and in newborns. Listeriosis is a rare infection caused by bacteria called listeria. During pregnancy a listeria infection is likely to cause only mild signs and symptoms in the mother. It usually goes away on its own but can cause serious problems if you re pregnant or have a weak immune system.
2014 nhs 2015 in this case the fever muscle pains and chills will be worse and you may develop a severe headache stiff neck confusion shakiness or fits convulsions nhs 2015. How you catch listeriosis. Up to 1 in 20 of the population may be carriers of the disease and do not become ill. Signs and symptoms of a listeria.
Most healthy adults and children who develop listeriosis have only a mild flu like illness or infection of the gut gastroenteritis with diarrhoea and sometimes being sick vomiting severe infection with blood poisoning septicaemia or infection around the brain meningitis may occur. Listeria unlike many other germs enters the bloodstream directly and therefore can get to the baby quickly through the placenta other food contaminants generally stay in the digestive tract.