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Pregnant women with syphilis may give birth to babies with syphilis

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  Pregnant women with syphilis are very likely to give birth to "syphilis" baby

  give birth healthy A baby is the best wish of all expectant mothers and fathers. However, many pregnant women are accidentally infected with infectious diseases such as syphilis during or before pregnancy. disease , due to lack of prevention knowledge, failure to take timely medical interruption measures, ultimately resulting in fetus The misfortune of infection, deformity and even miscarriage. Experts remind that if pregnant women are infected with infectious diseases, if they can be stopped scientifically in time, fetal infections caused by vertical transmission from mother to child can be greatly reduced.

  Generally speaking, in the first 4 months of pregnancy, the trophoblast of the placenta may have a barrier and isolation effect, so Treponema pallidum is not easily affected by passing through the placenta. However, after the 4th month of pregnancy, the trophoblast of the placenta shrinks. At this time, Treponema pallidum can easily pass through the placenta and enter the fetus. Therefore, pregnant women with syphilis will have serious consequences if they are not treated.

  If you are pregnant with syphilis (or have syphilis after pregnancy), in the early stages of pregnancy, because there are a large number of Treponema pallidum in the mother, which is highly contagious, 50% of the fetuses will die before reaching term.; Or although the baby is full-term, but it is stillborn after delivery, we call it stillbirth or stillbirth. ; The other 50% were born, but their endings were very bad, because they were labeled as "syphilitic babies" as soon as they came into the world.

  Some pregnant women with early latent syphilis, whose disease course is within 2 years after being infected with syphilis, may not have any symptoms during pregnancy. clinical performance, so I thought that I had recovered from the disease or had never been sick at all and could have children. In fact, during this period, the blood in pregnant women is also contagious. The result of pregnancy is that 20% of babies are stillborn, 40% of babies are infected with syphilis, and only 20% of babies may be normal.

  About 20% of babies born to pregnant women with late syphilis are stillborn or stillborn, 10% are syphilis babies, but 70% may be normal babies.

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