Eating lettuce salad is good for health, but for pregnant women, if they eat lettuce salad that is not cleaned, they may be infected with Listeria, and even delay the fetus in the abdomen, so that the fetus is also infected, which in turn leads to neonatal meningitis.
Dr. Huang Junbin, a pediatrician at Guotai General Hospital, said, 1 Pregnant women love lettuce salad on weekdays and think that fresh vegetables are nutritious and healthy, which is good for themselves and their fetuses. However, it is suspected that after eating unclean lettuce salad in the third trimester, fever symptoms occurred 65,438+0 ~ 2 days after delivery. However, the full-term baby girl born just two days ago was found to have poor vitality, lethargy, poor appetite and frequent hypoxemia, and was transferred to the neonatal observation room for examination and treatment. So it is judged that there is congenital infection. After the integrity assessment, the cerebrospinal fluid of the newborn was detected after lumbar puncture, and it was found to be a rare Listeria by culture.
The diagnosis should be that the fetus was infected by Listeria monocytogenes attached to the maternal reproductive tract during delivery, causing meningitis. Fortunately, it was discovered in time, and it was cured after first aid and antibiotic treatment, so that life was saved.
Listeria is a facultative anaerobic bacterium (it can grow in aerobic or anaerobic environment with wide adaptability). Generally spread through food and water, it is not resistant to high temperature and has considerable pathogenicity. The symptoms of listeriosis will vary according to the patient's age, sex and resistance. A healthy person may have no symptoms when infected, and may also have mild symptoms such as fever, headache, nausea and vomiting. Just like a cold, but they don't need treatment.