Infections as causes of a miscarriage

If you catch a cold, suffer from influenza during pregnancy, or run a fever, it can be very frightening. If you then go on to miscarry, you’re likely to think the virus was the cause of your loss, even through this is probably not so. In fact, we know quite a lot now about the role played by infections in recurrent miscarriages. Surprisingly, it is usually not the more obvious infections that the most for infections, the names of which you have never previously heard and for which there may be no symptoms.

The good news is that many of these asymptomatic infections are treatable. Some have also been pinpointed as likely cause of infertility. Certain women have to take a course of antibiotics before becoming pregnant, and then they will remain on the antibiotics for at least some part of the ovum or missed abortion has been the result of an infection.

What is this link between infections and miscarriage? It is possible that organisms could cause a miscarriage from as early as the time of conception. Organisms can attach themselves to the sperm and attach the egg on fertilized egg either directly or via the sperm.