I an 8 weeks PP tomorrow and my Dr rang me today re a vaginal swab I had last week. Looks to be bacterial vagnosis and then they said contamination which looks to be ecoli but they want to do another swab to be sure. Why would they need to do another if they already have results and is this dangerous / life threatening? I am worried x
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No don't worry. Usually an Ecoli infection is just a UTI. Probably just testing again to either make sure they give you the right antibiotics or to make sure there wasn't any contamination in the first swab. X
okay thanks so much, how could it have been contaminated? Sorry probably a silly question! Is it something you've been told you may have before? Xx

From what my doctor explained to me sometimes the swaps can just get contaminated. He didn't really explain with what or why he just said it happens. Try not to worry too much. X

I had E. coli infection from my stitches! Had anti biotics and it cleared x x