Wow! Good question! Don't know.
Posted by SForsgren (Member # 7686) on :
Seems unlikely. Via what means of transmission? If you mean sexually from father to mother and then congenitally from mother to child, possible though debated.
Posted by just don (Member # 1129) on :
MY llmd said that isnt very likely,,,that it is transfered thru sex. THAT was nigh unto 7 years ago tho and MAYBE better info IS available now.
I always wondered about that because I had REAL concerns wether my former wife was infected that way,,,apparently NOT cause she shows NO sxs!!(I didnt know I had this back then!!)
Have read alot of threads about it,,,NO conclusive 'evidence' one way or the other!!
Have read where some LLMD's do think this is possible!! And others have observed ALOT of similiar infected mates!!
But they also share tick endemic living residentual (outdoors of course)quarters so,,,,
I guess for NOW it remains a "MYSTERY",,,BUT with the recent findings I see,,,bart can be transmitted easily so THAT may be part of it also!!(maybe lyme is a co-infection of bart,,,who knows)like--just don--
Posted by docjen (Member # 7510) on :
No...not congenitally (meaning from the sperm to the egg, to the zygote). No pathogen is spread this way to a baby.
Posted by Clarissa (Member # 4715) on :
I think it will be years until they confirm this information but my "gut" tells me that it CAN be sexually transmitted from man to woman and then woman to child.
It just seems odd that my Mother, Father, brother, sister-in-law, their two kids, my mother's sister, brother, and their kids would ALL have been bitten by ticks, dontcha think? And we're all infected to varying degrees.
I also think that not only was I born with TBD's but that I picked up some other strains from various boyfriends growing up in the Northeast. One of my more serious boyfriends had Bells Palsy.
I had NO clue what Lyme disease was (in my mid 20's) and had no idea that his unfortunate paralysis was a clear red flag for a serious disease (sigh).
No more unprotected sex for me for all of the normal reasons and NOW for TBD's. IF I find "the one" to marry, he will be fully tested at an LLMD's office.
Posted by MusicMan (Member # 11966) on :
Hi there
I'm with you Clarissa!
We decided not to have children when we found out I had Lyme. I don't think anyone really knows for sure 100% positive on this and even if I saw that I'd still be leary.
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