Comments on: Topic for discussion http://www.jessicastrust.org.uk/2009/02/28/topic-for-discussion/ raising awareness of childbed fever Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:01:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Barbara Langford http://www.jessicastrust.org.uk/2009/02/28/topic-for-discussion/#comment-8635 Barbara Langford Wed, 27 May 2009 20:07:07 +0000 http://www.jessicastrust.org.uk/?p=376#comment-8635 If, when women are readmitted into hospital they are given a swab to check if they have "strep A", then why can't all women who are giving birth be swabbed so that they know if they are susceptible. If, when women are readmitted into hospital they are given a swab to check if they have "strep A", then why can't all women who are giving birth be swabbed so that they know if they are susceptible.

]]> By: Sammy Khor http://www.jessicastrust.org.uk/2009/02/28/topic-for-discussion/#comment-8625 Sammy Khor Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:54:55 +0000 http://www.jessicastrust.org.uk/?p=376#comment-8625 My daughter Sarah has just had the narrowest of escapes. Sarah sadly had to have a medical termination at 22 weeks and the day after she delivered she felt a little unwell, shivery, nothing too dramatic. By day two she had a high fever of 41+, stomach pains, rapid heartbeat and began to turn blue. Her husband took her back to the maternity unit early afternoon. Bloods and swabs were taken, fluids and antibiotics given. Late evening nothing had changed so a stronger antibiotic was given, but still no one was forthcoming with and ideas as to what this was apart from they had said that is was an infection of some sort!! By late Sunday temperature had dropped dramatically and had returned to near normal. They continued to give her intrevenous antibiotices until Wednesday when she was discharge. At the point of discharge my son-in-law-asked again what it was that Sarah had had. The response was 'strep A'. He told them that that covered a multitude of sins and asked them to be more precise, there appeared to be an unease so Chris asked if this was Puerperal fever to which they replied yes!!. We had thought that this was the case as we had been speaking to a friend who had just retired as a Consultant in on of the top London teaching hospital, plus my son-in-law had been trawling the internet when he wasn't with his wife in hospital. However, I am erternally grateful that my daughter survived this vicious unnecessary disease and feel that the only way to stop more women suffering from it and dying from it, we must legistlate for change and publicise like mad to educate not only mothers to be but the medics must also be educated. My daughter Sarah has just had the narrowest of escapes. Sarah sadly had to have a medical termination at 22 weeks and the day after she delivered she felt a little unwell, shivery, nothing too dramatic. By day two she had a high fever of 41+, stomach pains, rapid heartbeat and began to turn blue. Her husband took her back to the maternity unit early afternoon. Bloods and swabs were taken, fluids and antibiotics given. Late evening nothing had changed so a stronger antibiotic was given, but still no one was forthcoming with and ideas as to what this was apart from they had said that is was an infection of some sort!! By late Sunday temperature had dropped dramatically and had returned to near normal. They continued to give her intrevenous antibiotices until Wednesday when she was discharge. At the point of discharge my son-in-law-asked again what it was that Sarah had had. The response was 'strep A'. He told them that that covered a multitude of sins and asked them to be more precise, there appeared to be an unease so Chris asked if this was Puerperal fever to which they replied yes!!. We had thought that this was the case as we had been speaking to a friend who had just retired as a Consultant in on of the top London teaching hospital, plus my son-in-law had been trawling the internet when he wasn't with his wife in hospital.

However, I am erternally grateful that my daughter survived this vicious unnecessary disease and feel that the only way to stop more women suffering from it and dying from it, we must legistlate for change and publicise like mad to educate not only mothers to be but the medics must also be educated.

]]> By: Liz http://www.jessicastrust.org.uk/2009/02/28/topic-for-discussion/#comment-8615 Liz Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:32:16 +0000 http://www.jessicastrust.org.uk/?p=376#comment-8615 Hum. No one wants to think it still happens in what is supposed to be a 1st world nation - there is something so shameful about a woman dying in that manner. I think that it's not that it's too uncomfortable, it's genuinely every midwife & doctor's nightmare. It is not rare for a baby to die - more of ten then not it's out of our control. It's not so rare that the deaths are only reported every 3 years and the details poured over by all your peers, the press and the government. It's just a horror to have a woman in your care die. No one wants to even think of it. Hum. No one wants to think it still happens in what is supposed to be a 1st world nation - there is something so shameful about a woman dying in that manner.

I think that it's not that it's too uncomfortable, it's genuinely every midwife & doctor's nightmare. It is not rare for a baby to die - more of ten then not it's out of our control. It's not so rare that the deaths are only reported every 3 years and the details poured over by all your peers, the press and the government.

It's just a horror to have a woman in your care die. No one wants to even think of it.

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