u/BaseballWarm6918

Me againnnn with the health anxiety. I do have therapy tomorrow! I am trying. I an 21 weeks. This exposure feels actually real though. I feel like it is more legitimate than eating the risk foods.

Yesterday morning I had a glass of chocolate milk. After finishing a full glass I saw there was hardened old chocolate milk at the bottom. It was clear this glass was not clean.

Here’s my issue, and a habit we are changing (my mom did dishes like this so sorry for the incorrect use of sink). We soak all our dishes together and usually over night or even a day (pregnant, full time working, it happens). This includes cutting boards with raw chicken and produce, raw chicken knives etc.

I’m starting to think this glass somehow soaked in this sink then missed the dishwasher from how it looked honestly. Don’t ask me how. It just genuinely looked that way once I inspected it.

Anyway I’m actually concerned about listeria from this as I’m sure the stagnant water with food, raw poultry & produce was a serious grounds for bacteria that has likely been flourishing in that chocolate milk gunk at the bottom. Even dry, listeria is reactivated when reintroduced to moisture especially something like milk.

Help me understand the legitimate risk here because I genuinely feel it’s high. Does anyone have any actual knowledge on this aside from “it’s rare”?

I am 21 weeks pregnant and I want god honest truths here no sugar coating

Yesterday morning I had a glass of chocolate milk. After finishing a full glass I saw there was hardened old chocolate milk at the bottom. It was clear this glass was not clean.

Here’s my issue, and a habit we are changing. We soak all our dishes together and usually over night or even a day (pregnant, full time working, it happens). This includes cutting boards with raw chicken and produce, raw chicken knives etc.

I’m starting to think this glass somehow soaked in this sink then missed the dishwasher from how it looked honestly. Don’t ask me how.

Anyway I’m actually concerned about listeria from this as I’m sure the stagnant water with food, raw poultry & produce was a serious grounds for bacteria that has likely been flourishing in that chocolate milk gunk at the bottom.

Help me understand the legitimate risk here because I genuinely feel it’s high.

Me - back again - except this time I actually feel like I have had a genuine listeria exposure. I am 21 weeks pregnant and I want god honest truths here no sugar coating

Yesterday morning I had a glass of chocolate milk. After finishing a full glass I saw there was hardened old chocolate milk at the bottom. It was clear this glass was not clean.

Here’s my issue, and a habit we are changing. We soak all our dishes together and usually over night or even a day (pregnant, full time working, it happens). This includes cutting boards with raw chicken and produce, raw chicken knives etc.

I’m starting to think this glass somehow soaked in this sink then missed the dishwasher from how it looked honestly. Don’t ask me how.

Anyway I’m actually concerned about listeria from this as I’m sure the stagnant water with food, raw poultry & produce was a serious grounds for bacteria that has likely been flourishing in that chocolate milk gunk at the bottom.

Help me understand the legitimate risk here because I genuinely feel it’s high.

Hi everyone! I am hoping to get feedback from an infectious disease expert rather than people on the pregnancy Reddit or my own doctor (the nurses at my OB offices are actual idiots. Don’t even get me started)

I just would like to hear true, scientific feedback to my risk in this situation and how the bacteria actually functions. I am not looking to be shamed for anxiety which I clearly have and the pregnancy group took care of that shaming.

I am 18.5 weeks pregnant. According to FDA studies, 17.7% of avocados test positive for listeria on the skin. I understand the flesh inside is less than 1%. This is the story:

After reading this stat, I took my avocado under running water and scrubbed it with my hands (no produce brush, didn’t know this was a thing). I basically turned it around and massaged it with my hands. I then dried it with a paper towel, and repeated the process because of my listeria anxiety. I then handled it more while cutting it open and scooping it out. In the end, I didn’t even eat the damn avocado.

What I did do, like an idiot, is proceed to make my burrito, with my hands, and eat it, with my hands, without actually washing my hands at any point. It then dawns on me AFTER that I just massaged an avocado with a 1 in 5.6 risk of having listeria then touched all over my food.

My understanding is your bacterial load threshold is way lower during pregnancy for listeria. I also am horrified that listeria infections can be asymptomatic in pregnancy. I have read the stats for the likelihood and understand they are low. My Google “research” tells me that I probably just stuck all the listeria potentially on the avocado directly onto my hands during the massage then proceeded to prepare and eat my food with them.

I guess I’m looking to learn from professionals the risk here, the behavior of listeria transfer, how much bacterial load this was.

Thank you