PREGNANCY-BIRTH Messages for June, 2002: Re: ALLY need advice

Re: ALLY need advice

From: M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, FACOG (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:50:03 -0500 (CDT)

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At Fri, 28 Jun 2002, anon. wrote: >
>This is going to sound stupid but I am sitting here bawling my eyes out.
>Im forced to go on a vacation with my in laws next week. we will all be
>staying in a condo together. Im freaking out because Ive seen my
>inlaws, time and time again, do things like prepare raw meat (not wash
>their hands) then go immediatly to the silverware drawer and start
>rifiling through there for things. Other times, they crack open eggs,
>get it all over, once again, dont wash up and touch everything, door
>knobs, clean dishes, cupboards.
>
>Im 30 weeks pregnant, trying hard NOT to overreact...but to me this
>seems extremely dangerous in any situation...Im terrified of cross
>contamination and my poor unborn child developing toxo (from them
>touching the meat then everything else in the house that i would need to
>touch) to salmonella to ecoli.
>
>Im in absolute hysterics. I actually witnessed this last night when
>they were over and my inlaw had prepared hamburger then went right in my
>silverware drawer without washing up first. As soon as they left, I had
>to wipe everything down and run the my silverware through the
>dishwasher.
>
>YES, I do suffer from OCD but I really think this is so much more
>hygeine related then anything else....just common sense things that they
>dont do.
>
>Any advice?

don't go. Enlist the help of your doc and ask your doc to fib and say you shouldn't travel at this point

Please? How am I supposed to survive the next week? What are >the chances of contracting something (toxo, ecoli, salmonella) because
>they touch everything in sight without washing their hands??

toxo is next to nothing and it wouldn't really affect the baby at this point anyway. E coli and salmonella won't directly harm the baby eithre-- just indirectly if you get food poisoning

--
M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, FACOG
S. Lake Tahoe, CA

author of "Your Over-35 Week-by-Week Pregnancy Guide"

**this is for general educational purposes only and does not supplant the need for you to consult with your own physician**
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