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I had a woman who followed the garlic
treatment. She was still positive at term, refused Antibiotics and swabs
of baby etc. Both were fine. I guess this proves nothing about
garlic. It is a numbers game. 30% of women are colonized at 36 weeks. up
to 50% of those babies are colonized. 2% of the colonized babies get
sick. 6% of the sick babies die. For this we treat all of the colonized
mothers with IV antibiotics in labour. The Cochrane review “Five
trials were included. Overall quality was poor, with potential selection bias
in all the identified studies. Intrapartum antibiotic treatment reduced the
rate of infant colonization and early onset neonatal infection with group B
streptococcus. A difference in neonatal mortality was not seen.”
I realize that even one sick or dead baby should be prevented if possible, but…What
a dilemma, but aren’t we a bit paranoid? MM From: owner- Judy Slome Cohain had an article published
in the Winter 2004 (number 72) edition of Midwifery Today, called “GBS,
Pregnancy and Garlic, be a part of the solution”. Not sure if
it’s available online, or if it was published elsewhere, but she talks about
the research she’s been doing and protocols etc for trying the use of
garlic for treatment and prophylaxis. Hope that helps Tania From:
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- [ozmidwifery] Garlic for GBS? diane
- RE: [ozmidwifery] Garlic for GBS? Lieve Huybrechts
- RE: [ozmidwifery] Garlic for GBS? Tania Smallwood
- RE: [ozmidwifery] Garlic for GBS? Mary Murphy
- Re: [ozmidwifery] Garlic for GBS? Lisa Schuring
- RE: [ozmidwifery] Garlic for GBS? Samantha Saye
- [ozmidwifery] Propolis for GBS Sue Cookson
- Fw: [ozmidwifery] Garlic for GBS? Janet Fraser
