PREGNANCY-BIRTH Messages for August, 2000: Re: gardenerella vaginitis

Re: gardenerella vaginitis

From: Lynn D. Montgomery, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 30 Aug 2000 23:21:46 -0500 (CDT)

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At Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Bliss wrote: >
>At 11 weeks pregnant I was diagnosed with gardenerella vaginitis, and
>told that I would be treated for the condition at my next OB appt. (16
>weeks) That treating it now would just cause nausea and it doesn't need
>to be treated now, but that it does eventually because it can cause
>pre-term labor. Of course I am slightly worried waiting. Is waiting
>ok?
>PS I don't have any physical symptoms, no discharge or foul smell.
>Thank You.
>Bliss

Bliss, The gardnerella should be treated, but not because of the risk of preterm labor. This represents one of the bacterial vaginitis' or BV. This has quite definitively now been shown to not cause preterm labor. The hesitency about treating comes from the concern regarding the use of Flagyl in the first trimester... Lynn

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Lynn D. Montgomery, MD
Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Rocky Mountain Perinatal Center
Missoula, Montana

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