Chlorhexidine vaginal irrigation for the prevention of peripartal infection: a placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial

Article Abstract:

Chlorhexidine irrigation of the vagina before vaginal delivery may not prevent mothers from passing infections to their infants. Researchers performed chlorhexidine vaginal irrigations on 508 patients and sterile water placebo irrigations on 516 patients, all of whom were in active labor. The rate of infection after delivery was 10% for the patients receiving chlorhexidine and 13% for patients irrigated with placebo solution. These rates were not significantly different. Chlorhexidine irrigation could prevent women with meconium-stained amniotic fluid or prolonged rupture of membranes from infecting their infants.

Evaluation, Infection, Prevention, Childbirth, Delivery (Childbirth), Chlorhexidine, Irrigation (Medicine)

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Survival of triplets who are born to teen mothers in the United States

Article Abstract:

A study is conducted to assess survival among triplets who are born to teen mothers and to determine whether fetal number influences the mortality rates of the offspring of teen mothers when compared with the offspring of older women. The result confirms the association between teenage motherhood and feto-infant death and indicates that this mortality relationship varies in a dose-dependent fashion.

United States, Health aspects, Causes of, Pregnancy, Multiple, Multiple pregnancy, Pregnant girls, Pregnant teenagers, Fetal death

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An appraisal of screening for maternal type-specific herpes simplex virus antibodies to prevent neonatal herpes

Article Abstract:

It may not be cost-effective to screen all pregnant women for herpes simplex virus even though a blood test has been developed. Even after counting the monetary savings of a prevented herpes infection, hundreds of thousands of dollars or more would be spent to prevent just one case of herpes infection in a newborn baby.

Economic aspects, Diagnosis, Medical screening, Health screening, Herpesvirus diseases, Herpesvirus infections

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