Sushi/ Oyster/ Soft cheese

• Sushi/ Oyster/ Soft cheese (No)

  • Contain foodborne illness (e.g. Listeriosis)
  • Increased Progesterone --> Decrease pregnant women’s ability to resist infectious disease (Cell Mediated Immunity)

  • To prevent attacking the baby

  • Inhibit maternal immune system
• Listeriosis:

  • Caused by Listeria monocytogens (CAN cross placenta)

  • In mother: Influenza like illness

  • In fetus: Abortion, Still birth, Premature labour, Septicemia, Pneumonia,

  Disseminated granulomas