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Re: Anti-EFrom: Amy (anonymous@obgyn.net)Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:58:15 -0500 (CDT)
Chris, my lab was just testing routinly and they found very small traces of this antibody quite by accident. I sure am glad they did, I have to have and amneo next week and Im sure everything will be fine. I did get this from my last pregnancy because my husband carries this, I don't think I am RH neg no one said anything to me about my RH so Im just assuming that all is fine there. If you read the comments the doctor wrote to me she says the same thing. Any how thanks for your response. Amy. At Wed, 28 Jun 2000, chris wrote: > >At Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Amy wrote: >> >>I have read all of the comments made about anti-E and they don't answer >>my questions. My husband was also tested for this antibody once we >>learned that we had the BIG E, turns out he carries it. There was no >>problem with our first child and I wonder how this happened. I had a >>blood transfusion years ago but I don't see how that could be where this >>is comming from. Well now that I know that I have this antibody and the >>count of them in my blood is getting higher with every check up I don't >>know what to expect. My doctor says this child could be born anemic >>(sorry dont know how to spell it) and I don't know what that means >>except for sick in some way. I want to know how difficult will it be to >>care for this new child in the most extreme case. I also want to know >>if it I can nurse this child if my antibodies are trying to hurt this >>child, will it have any affect on the breast milk? Please help me find >>out some of these things. I only have 9 weeks left to go and I'm >>getting more worried everyday. >>Thanks a bunch. >> >>-- >>Amy >> >Hi Amy: > >I'm curious to know how you found out you have anti-E. You must be RH >Neg because they don't usually do antibody screens on RH Positive women >unless there has been a problem before and you say that your first >pregnancy was normal. If you are RH Neg, then you were most probably >sensitized to E during your first pregnancy. When you received blood >years ago, it would have been RH Negative and most RH Neg blood is >negative for big E. (Only about 0.5 % of the population is RH Neg E >Pos)so the chances of receiving an RH Neg E Pos unit was very low. > >If you are RH Pos then you may have been sensitized to E from the >transfusion or the first pregnancy. Approx 55% of the US Population is >RH Pos E neg and approx 28 % is RH Pos E pos. If you were sensitized >from the transfusion, your first baby might be E neg and you wouldn't >have had a problem. (your husband is probably what is called >heterozygous for E, meaning he also has little e and the first baby >might have inherited the little e from him the first time. Only approx >3 % of the population is both RH Pos and not heterozygous for E) > >Chris S. >CHris S.
-- Amy
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