An antibiotic ointment is recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) to prevent gonococcal eye infections in all newly-born babies. A gonococcal infection gets transmitted from mothers to newborns during delivery.
Background: The USPSTF routinely makes recommendations about the effectiveness of preventive care services. This latest statement is a reaffirmation of its 2011 recommendation on prevention of gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum, a gonorrhea infection of the eye in newborns. This infection can spread to the cornea and cause blindness as early as 24 hours after birth. In the absence of prevention, transmission rates of gonococcal infection from mother to newborn are 30 percent to 50 percent.
Gonorrhea
Gonorrhea is a very common sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by a bacterium/superbug called Neisseria gonorrhoeae. It is spread during sexual intercourse- vaginal, oral, and anal.
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‘Otherwise known as neonatal conjunctivitis is a type of conjunctivitis that occurs due to contamination of baby’s eyes during passage through the birth canal from the mother infected with Neisseria gonorrhea or Chlamydia trachomatis.’
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Congenital disease of the lung in which multiple cysts (water bubbles) develop in the lung tissues, sometimes affecting a whole lobe of the lungs.
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