It is not uncommon for a woman to experience premature
breaking of her water during pregnancy. However, when this does occur, it is
not taken lightly as there are often serious long-term health effects for both
the mother and the child. According to Amy P. Murtha, M.D. at Duke University
School of Medicine, new research is suggesting that having a high presence of
bacteria can play a key role in these events. Their research has demonstrated
that high levels of bacteria in the chorion part of the fetal membrane, causes
it to become frail and very thin. When the membrane becomes this consistency,
there is no possible way for it to stay completely strong, causing a major
rupture and ultimately leading to the fluids to leak out. In their recent
studies, they tested to see which ones if not all membranes had bacteria levels
correlating with the thinning of the cell layers. They weren’t all that
surprised at what they found; the amount of bacteria in the membranes with
rupture sites were far higher, but there was varying amounts of bacteria in all
of the membranes. The researches are now working to discover exactly what types
of bacterium are found in the premature water breakage patients, versus the
ones found in regular patients.
I thought this article was interesting because when you hear
about this happening to someone, the first thing that you think isn’t, ‘oh, it
must be the bacteria floating around inside them doing this to them.’ It never
ceased to amaze me what these microscopic things are capable of.
Article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140109003756.htm
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