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Defending cats can have a negative impact on pregnancy as this condition is closely related to a type of parasite, protozoa known as toxoplasma gondii.
Tame animals such as cats are often used as pets at home. But if you are pregnant, you may have to limit the time with the pet, especially in terms of cat feces handling ..

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Defending cats can negatively affect pregnancy. This condition is closely related to a type of parasite, a protozoa known as the toxoplasma gondii that breeds in the intestine of the cat and is found in its faeces and also in the soil ...

This parasite causes a type of commonly found toxoplasmosis that does not harm adults but can cause serious health problems to infants in the body ...

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This can lead to the threat of toxoplasmic infections that can affect the child in the womb. Many women are infected with toxoplasmic parasites but do not realize this fact because these parasites do not give a significant mark.
The most worrying issue is when the parasite infection is experienced for the first time during pregnancy. Many pregnant women do not know the dangers of the parasite because they do not have an extraordinary sign of congestion or high fever.

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On the contrary, infected mothers get fever and common cold, lymph nodes swollen, muscle aches, spasms and joint pain. Such symptoms are always considered "normal" by pregnant women and doctors who take care of them.

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The spreading process can be caused by pet feces that cause toxoplasmosis or in the medical world dubbed the infection caused by toxoplasmic parasites that invade the human nerve tissue.

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Infecting a baby An infected woman, whether before or during pregnancy, can infect a baby. Congenital toxoplasmosis is a medical problem in which babies in infections are infected through the type (placenta) ...

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If a woman receives first exposure to toxoplasmosis during pregnancy, the baby will be at high risk. Baby risks include dying, eye blindness and brain defects including the most common 'mental retardation' of the most commonly acquired picks obtained through their cats and their feces. Toxoplasm can also be infectious when women handle raw or semi-cooked meat.

Reminder

• As a reminder to women, especially those who are pregnant and trying to get pregnant, you need to limit the time with the animal or the management of the animal shit.
• The management of this animal stool can be done by a husband or someone else ... This way you can avoid the risk of first-time infections during pregnancy. More importantly it can reduce the risk of infants suffering from congenital toxoplasmosis.
• if the doctor suspects the mother has an active toxoplasmosis infection, a blood test can be performed to detect the presence of antibodies that confirm this infection. If the mother is diagnosed with an infection, further tests such as amniocynthesis and ultrasound scan tests will be performed on infants in the body ...
• Mothers will be given special medications if the baby is suspected of being infected, so that the symptoms that the baby will experience in the birth can be reduced ....

Treatment

• This treatment is continued on the baby after birth. On the contrary, if infants are uninfected, the mother will be given special antibiotic drugs so the risk of infection to the baby can be reduced by up to 50 percent.
• Newborn babies who get toxoplasmosis infection should be tested to avoid having any symptoms during the birth and continue to be treated.

The following precautionary measures can reduce the incidence.

• Among them by washing hands before handling food, avoiding raw meat or not cooked thoroughly, thoroughly washing fruits and vegetables that need not be cooked before being eaten, using gloves during gardening or while handling the soil and finally avoid touching the stool cat ...

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