Toxoplasmosis - parasitic disease of cats, dogs and man. The infection of toxoplasmosis is affected by the nervous, lymphatic, endocrine system, as well as organs of vision. Pregnant animals, sick toxoplasmosis prone to abortion or birth of non-visual fruits.
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Motherhood
For any woman motherhood is a natural need and one of the most beautiful components of life.
Learning by Ob «Interesting position», Future mom often changes its habits, making all the forces for the birth of a healthy child. If a pregnant woman has a cat, it often flies at the premium of friends and relatives with «Good Council» Quickly get rid of Murki in the name of the health of the future child. «Knowledgeable» People frighten the pregnant catalogs about terrible cats carrying and fatally dangerous for the child, as well as non-residents, like a girl-neighbor's cat climbed into the cradle, smalleled on the face of a helpless baby and strangled the baby. Frightened, the future milf is dismissed by tears and gives your favorite cat in good hands. And in the maternity hospital, a house for the ward, safely gave birth to the second child, sings the diffilams to his Barsik, tells how wonderful her first travelers get along with a cat, and laughs on stupid prejudices about the danger of a cat for a baby. So who can believe? Useful or extremely undesirable to the presence of a cat in a family waiting for a child? Possessing reliable information on this issue, the future mother will not break his head over a dilemma «Cat or child», Realizing that these two wonderful creatures can be perfectly living side by side.
What is known about toxoplasmosis
At the first visit to the female consultation, the doctor, as a rule, asks the future mother about whether animals live in the family. Having learned about the presence of a cat, another doctor, not explaining anything, only mentioning the incomprehensible toxoplasmosis, will advise as soon as possible to get rid of it. We strongly advise you to find another physician, more competent and knowledgeable. An experienced doctor will tell about this disease and precautionary measures and can designate a woman a special blood test for toxoplasmosis.
This is a contagious human and animal disease caused by Toxoplazma Gondii microorganisms. In addition to cats, toxoplasm carriers are dogs, mice, birds, pigs and sheep. So communication with almost all domestic and agricultural animals is potentially dangerous. Toxoplasmosis in cats in the overwhelming majority of cases flows hidden, sometimes nonspecific symptoms are observed: weight loss, diarrhea, eye redness, body temperature increase. Toxoplasmosis pathogens are contained in animal excrement, as well as in its organs and tissues. Cat is infected with toxoplasmosis when eating mice and birds. The owner offering the cat is a raw pork or lamb, also inadvertently increases the risk of infection. Although there are no accurate statistics on this issue, the veterinarians believe that the toxoplasmosis was overwhelmed with the vast majority of domestic cats.
In the human body toxoplasm, like most parasites, fall through the gastrointestinal tract. For people toxoplasmosis is not dangerous. Extremely rarely after a couple of weeks after infection, a slight increase in temperature and an increase in lymph nodes is observed. But, as a rule, a person does not suspect of illness. Then it acquires persistent immunity to toxoplasmosis.
In the blood with special analysis, antibodies to toxoplasmas are detected. Therefore, repeated «a meeting» With these microorganisms are absolutely not terrible and does not cause disease. You can get infected not only from the cat, but also eating raw or poorly roasted and uncured meat. According to infectious doctors, immunity to toxoplasmas has half of America inhabitants. In Europe, this figure is higher, for example, in France 90% of the population suffered toxoplasmosis. This disease is truly dangerous only for fetus and infants, because it threatens serious disorders up to severe brain lesions. With an extremely unfavorable (and unlikely) coincidence during pregnancy, a woman who does not have immunity to toxoplasmosis can be infected with this disease and infect the fruit. The longer the term of pregnancy, the greater the likelihood of fetal infection: in the first three months it is 15%, then increases. On the contrary, the risk of severe complications for the fetus decreases with the course of pregnancy.
For your own calm, the future mother can pass blood for the presence of antibodies against toxoplasm. This can be done before pregnancy, and at its beginning. Most likely, a woman having a cat has already slept toxoplasmosis. Then her serological test will be positive, that is, will indicate an immunity to the disease. In this case, relax, calmly hatch the child, as before, take care of your cat. If the test turned out to be negative, you should not get into panic and quickly get rid of Murki. Only simple precautions are needed, and do not forget that the source of toxoplasm can not only be a cat!
Prevention of infection
Once again, we will list the ways of hitting malicious microbes into the human body and the prevention of infection.
Toxoplasms may be contained in cat excrement and get into the human body cleansing a feline toilet. Therefore, a pregnant woman is worth either to charge the feline tray to someone from home, or remove it in rubber gloves. The future mother, working on the household site, should also be careful: Street cats can cope in the garden! Therefore, dig the ground in thick rubber gloves, and also carefully wash, and it is better to boil carrots and similar root in order to avoid infection.
The source of toxoplasm can be undergraduate or unsolved meat. The future mother-amateur bifhtecs with blood should be abandoned by this wonderful dish: although the toxoplasms prefer lamb and pork, on a slaughter or restaurant kitchen, they often use the same meat grinders, knives and boards for cutting and pork, and beef. Houses after cutting meat you need to rinse your hands well, but better entrust this part of the kitchen work. If a pregnant woman does not have immunity to toxoplasmas, in addition to the specified precautionary measures, she is worth passing the cat's feces for analysis. If the toxoplasms are revealed, it is necessary to strictly comply with preventive prescriptions. If the cat is healthy, it is worth secure it from possible infection. Do not feed her raw meat, do not let hunt on mice or birds, limit contacts with relatives, and better Do not release it to the street.
Thus, the toxoplasmosis is not so terrible, as it may seem at first glance. Almost all cat owners imperceptibly transferred this disease. Therefore, having learned that the future mother lives side by side with a cat over the years, the doctor may not appoint blood tests on toxoplasmosis, since it will show immunity to toxoplasm by 99.99%.
