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CAN STD infected pregnant?
Yes, pregnant women are infected with the same sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) that women are not. Pregnancy does not give women or their babies any protection against STDs. In fact, if a woman becomes ETS during pregnancy, the consequences for her and her baby are significantly more severe and can even be fatal. It is important that women realize the harmful effects of STDs and know how to protect themselves and their children against infection.

ETS EFFECTS ON PREGNANT WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN:
Pregnant women can suffer many of the same consequences of STDs than women who are not. STDs can cause cervical cancer and other cancers, chronic hepatitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility and other complications. Many STDs affect women are silent, ie, that are presented without signs or symptoms.

A pregnant woman has a sexually transmitted disease may also present an early delivery, premature rupture of the membranes surrounding the baby in the uterus and uterine infection after delivery.

STDs can be transmitted from a pregnant woman to her baby before, during or after birth. Some STDs (like syphilis) cross the placenta and infect the baby while in the uterus (womb). Other STDs (like gonorrhea, crying, hepatitis B and genital herpes) can be transmitted from mother to her baby as the baby passes through the birth canal during birth. HIV can cross the placenta during pregnancy, infect the baby during delivery and, unlike most other STDs, can infect the baby through breastfeeding.

harmful effects of ETS may include stillbirths, babies with low birth weight (less than five pounds), conjunctivitis (eye infection), pneumonia, neonatal sepsis (infection in the circulating blood of baby), nerve damage (such as brain damage or lack of coordination in body movements), blindness, deafness, acute hepatitis, meningitis, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. Some of these problems can be prevented if the mother receives routine prenatal care, including testing for STDs early in pregnancy and the frequency of tests near the end of pregnancy, if necessary. Other problems can be treated if the infection is detected at birth.

PREGNANT WOMEN SHOULD BE PRUBAS for STDs:

sexually transmitted diseases affect women of all socioeconomic and educational levels, regardless of age, race, ethnicity and religion. In its publication in 2002 on treatment of disease transmission sexual (2002 Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines ), CDC recommends that, during their first prenatal visit, pregnant women are tested for detection include:

· Chlamydia

· Gonorrhea

· Hepatitis B

· Hepatitis C

· HIV

· Syphilis

Also, some experts recommend that women who have given birth prematurely in the past be screened and treated for bacterial vaginosis during their first prenatal visit.

Pregnant women should ask the doctor to get tested for these STDs because some doctors do not perform these tests routinely. There is increasing new evidence and more accurately. Although a woman has been tested in the past, should be tested again when she becomes pregnant.

treat STDs POSE DURING PREGNANCY

Diseases such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, trichomoniasis and bacterial vaginosis (BV) can be treated and cured with antibiotics during pregnancy. There is no cure for viral STDs like genital herpes and HIV, but the use of antiviral drugs for herpes and HIV may reduce symptoms in pregnant women. If she has active lesions genital herpes at delivery, you can perform a cesarean section to protect the newborn against infection. Caesarean section may also be an option for some women infected with HIV. Women whose screening for hepatitis B were negative, can be vaccinated against hepatitis B during pregnancy.

WAYS TO PROTECT AGAINST A PREGNANT INFECTION:

The surest way to avoid transmission of sexually transmitted diseases is to abstain from sexual contact or have a long-term mutually monogamous relationship with a partner who have been tested and is known to be uninfected.

Latex condoms, when used consistently and correctly, are highly effective in preventing transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Latex condoms, when used consistently and correctly, can reduce the risk of transmission of gonorrhea, chlamydia and trichomoniasis. Genital ulcers and infections by human papilloma virus (HPV) can occur in both areas, male and the female genitals, whether or not covered or protected by a latex condom. Correct and consistent use of latex condoms can reduce the risk of genital herpes, syphilis and cankers only if the infected area or site of potential exposure is protected. Although it is unknown the effect of condoms in preventing infection with human papilloma virus has been associated with the use of condoms to a lower rate of cervical cancer, which is an HPV-related disease.