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Date: | Wed, 4 Dec 1996 18:49:57 -0500 |
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I am not sure how the baby, who has presumably been treated with
antibiotics, would transmit beta strep to the mother. I have not heard
of beta strep being transmitted through milk, nor of beta strep
colonizing the areola. It is perhaps a possibility the idea of Dr.
Freed, but I have never heard of this having been documented. There is
not enough known, I would say, to be too definite about this.
In any case the mother still has blood levels of antibiotics and the
baby is getting the antibiotics during the 12 first hours after birth,
so it seems to me there is still no reason for separation. If there
truly is concern, which I doubt, why not give the mother a few more
doses of antibiotics? With all the antibiotics being thrown around, an
extra 24 hours or so of antibiotics for the mother will not do much
harm. In for a penny in for a pound.
Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC
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