How can a baby be born positive for meth and going through “withdrawl”, yet the mother be negative?

Question by Mrs L: How can a baby be born positive for meth and going through “withdrawl”, yet the mother be negative?
Someone I know had a baby and it was having seizures and screaming fits, so they tested the baby and he was positive for meth, yet the mother was negative. The mother was given Tylenol 3 and breast fed, but that’s the extent of any drug relations. The baby also has an infection of some sort. They scanned his brain with an MRI and found a white spot in the left hemisphere, the specialists have not told my friend anything yet so I suppose they have no clue. Any ideas? The only thing that I could come up with is that maybe is could be an infection that was passed to the baby in utero and that it somehow created an interference with the meth testing by possible kidney damage or infection… ?? Sound plausible?
The baby has never left the hospital since being born, except to be moved to a different hospital… I don’t understand this myself.

Best answer:

Answer by Nguyen
Did they test the baby after some of the labor drugs had passed to him through the umbilical cord?

Answer by Mommy to Braydon J
How old is the baby? Maybe there is a meth lab that he/she has been around lately. If the baby is close to it, it is ingested through the skin and aspirated. This would cause him/her to be positive. It must be somewhere the mother doesn’t go.

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