Pregnant woman's gingivitis caused baby to be stillborn

[☭proletarian☭]

pdated 6:43 a.m. MT, Fri., Jan. 22, 2010Pregnant women with untreated gum disease may have more at stake than just their teeth. They may also be risking the lives of their babies, a new study shows.
Expectant mothers have long been warned that gum disease can cause a baby to be born prematurely or too small. But for the first time scientists have linked bacteria from a mother’s gums to an infection in a baby that was full-term but stillborn, according to the study which was published Thursday in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Mother?s gum disease linked to infant's death - Pregnancy- msnbc.com

 

[Cecilie1200]

Sad, but not really surprising. My mother-in-law essentially died from complications arising from a deep cleaning at the dentist. She didn't get pre-treated with antibiotics, as people with heart murmurs are supposed to do, and the germs hit her system, knocked her down for the count, and she just never managed to get well again. She became quite sick, passed out from the dizziness it caused, broke her hip, became bedridden, her diabetes started to rage out of control, the prolonged high blood sugar counts weakened her heart, and eventually she was just unable to circulate well enough to allow her body to digest food. Eventually, her heart just stopped beating strongly enough to maintain her body at all, and she was gone.

Anything that lets germs into a body with a less-than-perfect immune system is potentially deadly.