My wife has chronic Lyme disease. We want to have a child. Is this safe? Can the disease be transmitted to the baby?"
Aidan from Mamakating
"Dear Aidan,
Therapy with antibiotics is generally highly successful; therefore, once appropriate treatment has been completed, ongoing infection is usually rare. Even though some people with Lyme disease continue to have symptoms after the completion of treatment, most experts believe these symptoms are not related to an active infection.
If the infection has been eliminated from the mother, it cannot be transmitted to the fetus, so it is highly unlikely that your wife's past infection poses a significant risk of infection to the baby."
Nurse Patti of the Hudson Valley has been an R.N. for 33 years. Send questions to her c/o the Record, 40 Mulberry St., Middletown 10940 or to [email protected].
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