During pregnancy, various prenatal examinations are essential. GBS examination is a very important test, usually conducted in the late stage of pregnancy. As Streptococcus agalactiae is generally more parasitic in the intestines and birth canal, if pregnant women are infected with GBS, there is also a risk of fetal infection. How to check GBS?
GBS examination is generally conducted using bacterial culture methods, and the examination sites are the intestines and birth canal of pregnant women. Take intestinal and birth canal specimens for tissue culture. If they are positive, it is considered as Streptococcus agalactiae infection.
If a pregnant woman is positive for Streptococcus agalactiae, she may not necessarily have any discomfort symptoms. Therefore, Streptococcus agalactiae infection is often difficult to detect without GBS testing. If pregnant women are infected with Streptococcus agalactiae, they may cause infections to their babies during childbirth. Streptococcus agalactiae may also retrograde into the uterus, causing infection to the baby inside the uterine cavity. How can pregnant women with GBS positivity prevent their babies from getting infected?
After the amniotic fluid breaks, timely delivery is necessary. Infection of the baby in the uterine cavity mainly occurs after the amniotic fluid breaks, so pregnant women with GBS infection must give birth promptly after the amniotic fluid breaks.
The second is to perform aseptic treatment after childbirth. If a pregnant woman's GBS test is positive, it is necessary to promptly sterilize the baby after birth to eliminate the risk of bacterial infection.
