If the infection of a woman toxoplasmosis occurs during pregnancy, the causative agents of the disease can be transferred to the fetus. True, it happens infrequently.
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Toxoplasmosis is one of those diseases with which once in life and so easy that they often do not even notice him. Sun trifles for most people - but a disaster for a pregnant woman.
This infectious disease almost always flows in a hidden form. 2-3 weeks after infection, the temperature rises, the lymph nodes increase, there is a sense of breaking. Sometimes rash appears, but very soon disappears. But the persistent immunity remains for life - not the consequences of the disease, no secondary infection can no longer be afraid. This is true in relation to everyone except for pregnant women. Pregnancy - the most inappropriate time to draw this infection.
How toxoplasmosis is infected
You can get infected with toxoplasmosis with two ways: through infected meat (pork or lamb is more likely to blame) or when contacting an infected cat. It was a cat, because to grab the infection from another person, from the dog, through the unwashed towel, sexually, by air, or any other way it is impossible. According to American researchers, each third cat is a carrier of toxoplasmosis.
Feline symptoms of the disease are similar to human, and they are also easy to notic. Even having overwhelmed with toxoplasmosis and having received a lifelong immunity, the animal still highlights toxoplasms in a feline toilet and thus can infect a person.
What happens during toxoplasmosis
If the infection of the mother coincided with the first trimester, when the placenta is still permeable for pathogens, the probability of overcoming the toxoplasms of the placental barrier is small: approximately 15 percent. In this case, everything can end well.
In the second trimester, the toxoplasms are easier to penetrate the blood of the fetus, and the probability of congenital toxoplasmosis increases to 20 percent.
If infection occurred, the pathogens will accumulate and multiply in the brain, hitting the eyes and the central nervous system of the fetus. The immune system will soon cope with the disease and destroy all toxoplasm in the body, but alas - part of the child's nerve cells will be destroyed. Most likely effects - increased intracranial pressure, mental retardation, epilepsy and blindness.
By the third trimester, the likelihood of infection grows up to 50-60 percent, but the fruit is already more resistant to destructive effects of toxoplasm. Kid may be born without any visible deviations. In such cases, they talk about the latent (that is, hidden) toxoplasmosis: the consequences of infection can manifest themselves after months and even years.
What to do
with toxoplasmosis
Toxoplasmosis is not an absolute reading for interrupting pregnancy. It is necessary to do analyzes. If the toxoplasms themselves are detected in the amniotic fluid or their antigens, and the amount to the toxoplasm in the blood is growing rapidly, the likelihood of fetal damage is very high. Estimate the situation and determine the degree of defeat will help ultrasound.
Does it make sense to treat toxoplasmosis during pregnancy - still unclear. Evidence that treatment improves the forecast, no, but the antibiotics of benefit will not exactly bring. But if it happened, it happened, you can be sure that at least the next child toxoplasmosis will not be a terrible to the acquired mother immunity.
Prevention
Toxoplasmosis
If there is no one hundred percent confidence that you can protect ourselves from contacts with a cat during pregnancy, you will have to regularly pass tests. Serological blood test will show whether you were rooksoplasmosis. If antibodies are found to the toxoplasm (the result of a transferred infection), there is nothing to fear: you can overst all the cats of the city without the slightest risk to get infected. If there is no immunity, the analysis will have to do a cat. With a sick or previously sick, a cat will have to, like neither sad, partition (for a while). A healthy cat will need to put under the castle, feed only supreme meat or other good food, it is most checked for toxoplasmosis every 2-3 months, preferably in the same laboratory so as not to miss a random infection..
So that there is no infection:
- Do not seduce kebabs, whites, Chebureca and other products that may contain poorly roasted meat,
- after contact with meat with fanatical care care hands,
- Do not try raw meat minced,
- Working in the garden, wear rubber gloves,
- For pregnancy, instruct the cleaning of the feline toilet to someone from loved ones.
