There is a sister who once complained to Sister Sa that she planned to have children after marriage, and her mother-in-law said that she was not allowed to keep cats, because "it will lead to miscarriage deformities and parasitic diseases", and the cats she has raised for several years have deep feelings, have been very clean and have been injected on time, do you have to send them away to get pregnant?
In fact, pregnancy and pet ownership are not absolutely incompatible.
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Let's talk about why we have pets
Will some pregnant women and even their families be so worried?
The culprit is the toxoplasma that pets may carry.
Toxoplasma gondii causes toxoplasmosis, a pathogen called Toxoplasma gondii, a zoonotic disease that has a worldwide distribution. Felines are the ultimate hosts of Toxoplasma gondii, which parasitize the small intestinal epithelial cells of these animals and are excreted with feces, eaten by other mammals and birds, or infected when exposed to feces.
If it is a cat and dog that is kept at home at the beginning, and is clean and hygienic, and is immune, does not hunt birds outside, and does not eat raw meat feces, the probability of infection with Toxoplasma gondii is very low.
Toxoplasma gondii in the human body only exists in the trophozoite (acute infection) and cystic (chronic infection) two forms, when people infected with toxoplasmosis, most of them have no obvious symptoms, or the symptoms are relatively mild, but for people with immune system defects, infection with Toxoplasma gondii is fatal.
For example, AIDS patients, because the immune system can not work properly, Toxoplasma toxoplasma will invade all parts of the human body, causing encephalitis, meningoencephalitis, epilepsy and mental abnormalities, serious will lead to death within 2 to 8 months.
In pregnant women, the manifestations of acute toxoplasmosis are more common in lymphadenitis, and systemic or local lymphadenopathy can be accompanied by tenderness. Chronic, on the other hand, can present with retinal choroiditis.
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What are the possible effects of toxoplasmosis infection in pregnant women?
Infection with Toxoplasma gondii in pregnant women increases the risk of complications during pregnancy, such as miscarriage, preterm birth, stillbirth, premature rupture of membranes, contractile weakness, postpartum haemorrhage, and neonatal asphyxia.
If you are a pregnant woman with acute toxoplasmosis, you can spread the infection vertically to the fetus, the smaller the gestational age at the time of infection, the more serious the damage to the fetus may be, and the infection within three months can cause the fetus to miscarry.
Surviving fetuses can be infected with the placenta to the intrauterine fetus through placental infection, causing congenital toxoplasmosis, often manifesting as retinitis, hydrocephalus, intrabrainal calcification, and is divided into systemic and central nervous symptom types.
These two types of congenital toxoplasmosis can cause fever, vomiting, diarrhea, encephalitis, meningitis and other infectious symptoms within four weeks of the birth of the fetus, and the possible sequelae are hydrocephalus, intracerebral calcification, microcephaly, retinitis and so on.
These diseases do sound terrible, but infection with toxoplasmosis also requires certain conditions.
Cats are the terminal host of Toxoplasma gondii, and the main reason for their infection is that they eat feces, food or raw meat contaminated with Toxoplasma gondii.
Normal people are infected with toxoplasmosis mostly because they eat water and food contaminated with cat feces, or eat meat and eggs that are not cooked, as well as milk that has not been sterilized, cooked food contaminated with raw meat, and so on.
Eating feces or food contaminated with feces, this point of sister Sa feels that the operation should be very difficult, in fact, as long as we can not let the cats in the house eat indiscriminately, while also paying attention to their own hygiene, then we can effectively prevent toxoplasmosis infection.
What we can do is:
(1) Give the cats at home cooked food, do not eat raw meat or let the cats hunt outside at will, and give the cats canned cats or cat food.
(2) Women who are preparing to become pregnant or are already pregnant should not eat raw meat, as well as half-cooked meat, eggs, and foods with unsafe hygiene.
(3) Do not drink raw water, the cutting board at home can be specially prepared with a piece of cut raw meat, and used separately from other ingredients.
(4) Because it is mainly transmitted through feces, women who are ready to become pregnant or have become pregnant, it is better to shovel the to the husband.
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So can you check it in advance?
See if you're infected with this Toxoplasma gondii?
Of course, we have a test about eugenics in the preconception test, called eugenics four or eugenics ten, which includes toxoplasmosis screening.
If you have a history of obvious animal contact, you can perform a preconception test before pregnancy, or test toxoplasmosis imm in the early, middle and third trimesters of pregnancy to determine whether there is toxoplasmosis infection, detect or treat as soon as possible, and terminate the pregnancy in time if necessary.
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So how to treat Toxoplasma gondii?
The earlier the treatment, the fewer sequelae caused by Toxoplasma toxoplasma infection.
When we have been diagnosed with toxoplasmosis infection during pregnancy, then the drug that should be used is acetylspiramycin, which is taken orally for two weeks, and can be repeated after a 2-week interval.
For newborns delivered by a woman with toxoplasmosis, even if the baby looks normal, acetylspiramycin should be given for treatment.
Therefore, although toxoplasmosis is terrible, it can be prevented, can be detected as early as possible, and can also be treated. But to say the most important thing, Sajie believes that it should be prevention.
And not to raise cats and dogs pets, it will definitely be infected with toxoplasmosis, not as long as you plan to get pregnant, you must send the pet away, we just need to insist on doing a good job in life precautions, away from the pet's feces, away from raw food and raw water, the owner loves to be clean, the pet should also be kept clean, then even if you plan to be pregnant or have been pregnant, you can also accompany your good partner.
Although Sister Sa sometimes feels that shoveling is more troublesome, but looking at the cute appearance of cats and dogs, I still feel very useful and liked in my heart, pets are also our friends, since we have decided to raise them, we should also do our own responsibility.
Protecting their health is also protecting our own health.
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