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Info on Group B Strep Please!
I just recently got diagnosed with Group B Step. I'd really like to know more about it. From what I've been looking up it mostly effects pregnant women and newborns, I don't fall under either of those catagories. My doctor said that it most likely happend from having sex with my (monogomous)partner. He's been away, at war, for about 10 months and when he came home we obviously were trying to make up for lost time in the sex department. About two weeks from the time we started having sex again I started to get symtoms similar to that of a yeast infection. (which I sometimes get) I noticed though that the symptoms were stlightly different, which concerned me, usually when I get yeast infections, I'll have some discharge with minimal itching. This time there was little discharge and the itching was through the roof. So, I went to the doctor and they tested me for a bunch of different STDs and baterial infections as well. I didn't have any STDs and she said that this GBS isn't serious and she put me on a antibiotic supository.I'd like to know more about GBS. I know that it can go back and forth between two people from having sex. I realize it's not the same thing as when you have strep throat, but is it possible that because my boyfriend was sick while preforming oral sex on me I got this GBS? Or, is this strictly a genital thing. Also I know it can effect the anal area too, which I think it may have, will that be cleared up with the antibiotic supository that she put me on? Is this likely to come back again? Are there things I can do to prevent this from happening?
Please be advised that Group B Strep does NOT cause ANY "outward" symptoms...meaning "outside the body". Therefore, your symptoms are in no way related to Group B Strep!
It can NOT be transmitted through sexual activity; nor is it contagious and able to be passed from one person to another; except from mom to baby during labor/delivery or, occasionally, in the womb.
I hope you will find a doctor to diagnosis your symptoms because it does not sound like it has anything to do with Group B Strep!
The following might help you understand:
http://www.groupbstrep.org/info7.html
It can NOT be transmitted through sexual activity; nor is it contagious and able to be passed from one person to another; except from mom to baby during labor/delivery or, occasionally, in the womb.
I hope you will find a doctor to diagnosis your symptoms because it does not sound like it has anything to do with Group B Strep!
The following might help you understand:
http://www.groupbstrep.org/info7.html
Just wanted to offer this:
http://www.ehow.com/about_5033091_strep-contagious.html
to help clarify things for you (and others interested)
Group B Strep is NOT contagious.
If a person develops illness from it, it's only because they already carried it and it broke through blood barriers in their body OR because they gave birth to a baby without being treated during labor/delivery.
It does NOT pass from one person to another!
http://www.ehow.com/about_5033091_strep-contagious.html
to help clarify things for you (and others interested)
Group B Strep is NOT contagious.
If a person develops illness from it, it's only because they already carried it and it broke through blood barriers in their body OR because they gave birth to a baby without being treated during labor/delivery.
It does NOT pass from one person to another!
Where did you get your information?
Group B Strep is NOT sexually transmitted and can not be sexually transmitted.
It is not "contagious" except that it can pass to a baby while being born and passing through the canal/vagina. (If the mother has not been properly treated with antibiotics during labor)
Group B Strep is just "there" in more than 25-40% of people.
It is usually harmless and produces no symptoms (so the original poster's description of discharge and/or itching is NOT consistent with Group B Strep at all!)
I have been "colonized" and therefore receive antibiotics during labor and delivery of babies...but, your information is inconsistent with everything my medical team has taught me about this bacteria. So, again, where did you get your info?
Being diagnosed as "colonized" simply means that someone has tested positive for the culture but has not developed any illness from carrying the Group B Strep.
Group B Strep "disease" or "infection" is when the baby being born (or the person carrying the culture) becomes "ill" from it. Still...this is when the bacteria invades the same body where it is present...or, a baby's body being born through that person's body...it does not pass to a sexual partner or to another person like a "virus".
Group B Strep is NOT sexually transmitted and can not be sexually transmitted.
It is not "contagious" except that it can pass to a baby while being born and passing through the canal/vagina. (If the mother has not been properly treated with antibiotics during labor)
Group B Strep is just "there" in more than 25-40% of people.
It is usually harmless and produces no symptoms (so the original poster's description of discharge and/or itching is NOT consistent with Group B Strep at all!)
I have been "colonized" and therefore receive antibiotics during labor and delivery of babies...but, your information is inconsistent with everything my medical team has taught me about this bacteria. So, again, where did you get your info?
Being diagnosed as "colonized" simply means that someone has tested positive for the culture but has not developed any illness from carrying the Group B Strep.
Group B Strep "disease" or "infection" is when the baby being born (or the person carrying the culture) becomes "ill" from it. Still...this is when the bacteria invades the same body where it is present...or, a baby's body being born through that person's body...it does not pass to a sexual partner or to another person like a "virus".
Where did you get your information?
Group B Strep is NOT sexually transmitted and can not be sexually transmitted.
It is not "contagious" except that it can pass to a baby while being born and passing through the canal/vagina. (If the mother has not been properly treated with antibiotics during labor)
Group B Strep is just "there" in more than 25-40% of people.
It is usually harmless and produces no symptoms (so the original poster's description of discharge and/or itching is NOT consistent with Group B Strep at all!)
I have been "colonized" and therefore receive antibiotics during labor and delivery of babies...but, your information is inconsistent with everything my medical team has taught me about this bacteria. So, again, where did you get your info?
Being diagnosed as "colonized" simply means that someone has tested positive for the culture but has not developed any illness from carrying the Group B Strep.
Group B Strep "disease" or "infection" is when the baby being born (or the person carrying the culture) becomes "ill" from it. Still...this is when the bacteria invades the same body where it is present...or, a baby's body being born through that person's body...it does not pass to a sexual partner or to another person like a "virus".
Group B Strep is NOT sexually transmitted and can not be sexually transmitted.
It is not "contagious" except that it can pass to a baby while being born and passing through the canal/vagina. (If the mother has not been properly treated with antibiotics during labor)
Group B Strep is just "there" in more than 25-40% of people.
It is usually harmless and produces no symptoms (so the original poster's description of discharge and/or itching is NOT consistent with Group B Strep at all!)
I have been "colonized" and therefore receive antibiotics during labor and delivery of babies...but, your information is inconsistent with everything my medical team has taught me about this bacteria. So, again, where did you get your info?
Being diagnosed as "colonized" simply means that someone has tested positive for the culture but has not developed any illness from carrying the Group B Strep.
Group B Strep "disease" or "infection" is when the baby being born (or the person carrying the culture) becomes "ill" from it. Still...this is when the bacteria invades the same body where it is present...or, a baby's body being born through that person's body...it does not pass to a sexual partner or to another person like a "virus".
Hi im 28 iv just been diagnosed with strep B a few days ago due to illness iv had vaginal and vulval proplems for 4 years now suffer with bad pain and cuts and have seen dr after dr and a specialist who made me worse.my strep B has other symptoms to i feel tired, run down,bad joint pain, bad stomach pain the list goes on. The one thing i am blessed with is an amazing supportive partener who makes all the differece in the world.
do you still have any symptoms? Do you still take the allicin max? how much did u take and for how long? Your sympoms were vaginally?
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