*staph* Is this an infection that should be treated in pregnancy

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Hi,

I’m 10 weeks pregnant and I’ve had slight green tinged discharge occasionally from the beginning. I kind of remember this happening with my first and was no problems but I mentioned it to midwife who gave me an internal swab.

Swab came back saying “heavy growth of Staphylococcous aureus”

The midwife said I’d need antibiotics but when I spoke to doctor they were hesitant. I then went back to the midwife and they got in touch with a registrar at the hosp who said it didn’t need to be treated.

I’m obviously a bit anxious now as I trust their judgement but don’t want to sit on my hands and leave it if it is infact an infection?

Has anyone had any experience with this or knowledge?

Thank you

Hi I’m currently 29 weeks pregnant and have exactly the same symptoms. I went to midwife who did swab and said the same thing, they transferred it over to my Dr. Both midwife and doctor said it had to be treated with antibiotics. Half way through them now and all good, discharge hasn’t changed much yet though. I would check again with midwife as I think it needs to be treated as they screen you for this if you have a c-section, hope this helps x

Mine wasn’t staph aureus but I had an infection with staph lugdunensis when I was just a few weeks pregnant in February. I didn’t have the green discharge but had pain and odour so they swabbed and it was a staph infection! They treated it with a week of flucloxacillin. I’ve also just had another weeks course of flucloxacillin for a cyst down below and I’m now 36 weeks. Fluclox is generally safe in pregnancy so I would recommend it’s safer taking antibiotics for just a week than going full term with a staph infection!

Thanks very much for your responses both:

amy- that’s really interesting, I am going to ask for second opinion as it doesn’t feel right just sitting this one out. I did wonder whether the greenish discharge could have been linked to cervix ectropion which I definitely have but will push for another opinion incase I need antibiotics too.

chloe- agreed, I really don’t want staph on delivery so best get it sorted.

thanks!

Any updates on this? I've been told
I have a staph infection and need antibiotics. Worried they might affect baby.

hi, my baby is nearly 1 now so from memory the registrar said no antibiotics needed for this particular staph infection. I completely forgot about it then and baby was born fine etc.
I haven’t any experience of taking antibiotics whilst preg but hopefully they should be safe during pregnancy. Speak to your midwife/doctor if concerned. Good luck