Annette wrote:
> This child was her first VBAC. She did get an epidural and catheter. 2 days
> ago she started complaining of back pain. Now she has a temp. and was
> admitted back to the hospital. They decided it was a urinary track infection
> of some sort and she is on antibiotics. The nurses were telling her not to
> nurse (because of the fever). I let her know it was O.K. to nurse the baby.
> He is rooming in with her.
>
> I am having her follow an anti-yeast diet while on the antibiotics. She seems
> prone to thrush.
>
> Are there many moms that get infections like this after using catheters?

I don't know that, but I just recently read that Candida loves catheters. So I'd
like to ask if it's certain that it was a bacteriologic  urinairy tract
infection or could candida play a role as well?
And I have the ref this time: Hawser SP, Douglas LJ: 'Biofilm formation by
Candida species on the surface of catheter materials in vitro.' Infections &
Immunity 62(3):915-921, 1994.

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, Maaseik, Belgium
http://www.users.skynet.be/eurolac
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