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Group B Strep test – a must for all pregnant women?

February 2, 2018
Test for GBS with Strepelle at 35 weeks! Up to one in five of all pregnant women will be carriers of Group B Strep in the birth canal and the bacterium can be passed during labour to their baby. One in five newborns who are infected with Group B Strep suffer from serious, life-changing illnesses such as meningitis, septicaemia or pneumonia, which can have life-long effects such as brain damage, hearing loss and sight loss. One in ten babies with the infection will die from it. In the UK 70 babies a year die from Group B Strep infection.The only way of knowing if a pregnant woman is carrying the bacterium is by having a laboratory test. The highly accurate Strepelle test (www.strepelle.com) will determine whether the pregnant woman is carrying the bacterium.In the UK, pregnant women are not routinely offered testing for group B Strep by the NHS unlike in many other developed countries.

strepelleStrepelle was created in partnership with midwives and was launched at the recent Baby Show in London to great acclaim. It was designed to make laboratory testing for GBS more available and convenient, save babies lives, and prevent heart-breaking devastation in families. The accurate and easy to use test is for use from 35 weeks pregnant. The home-to-laboratory test can be purchased on-line or in store for £39.99 and contains everything that is needed to provide a sample to the laboratory; instructions, two swabs and a pre-paid envelope; the results will arrive within 3 days of receipt of the sample, either by letter, text, or email (whichever is best for the receiver). If a woman is a carrier, all she needs to do is let her doctor or midwife know, and antibiotics will be administered intravenously during labour.

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