If you are pregnant, you can convey toxoplasmosis, a rare parasitic disease, to your unborn baby and a toxoplasmosis infection can lead to spontaneous cabins or cause deformed babies.
CDC says your cat is not the biggest threat
It is unlikely that your cat will give you toxoplasmosis.Flying centers for disease control and prevention "It is more likely that people get [toxoplasmosis] to eat raw meat or gardening."
How do cats get toxoplasmosis?
Cats can get toxoplasmosis from eating contaminated raw meat, birds, mice or soil.of other animals.
By understanding the disease, you can make yourself feel safer
An understanding of the life cycle of Toxoplasma Gondii (T. Gondii) and the role that cats play in disease transfer can divide the fear of the role of cats in the disease.
T. Gondii is a Protozoic organism that can infect all mammals that act as intermediary host T. Gondii that they will separate potentially infectious oocysts (reproduces micro -organisms).To dawn.
How do people get toxoplasmosis?
People who usually come up with the disease due to the consumption of lowered meat that T. Gondii contains within tissue cysts.Infection takes place during pregnancy.
The chance to get toxoplasmosis
Because it is difficult for cats to transfer toxoplasmosis directly to their carers, it is generally unlikely that a pregnant person will get the disease from his treasure of pets.
More factors keep the chance of such a transmission low:
- Only cats that take tissue cycles are infected.In the case of the cat population, this would be limited to cats that hunt cats and eat rodents, as well as cats that are fed raw meat by their owners.
- Usually a cat only separates oocysts when they are exposed to T. Gondiiand for the first time, this only takes place for two weeks.
- Because oocysts only become infective after one to five days, exposure to the disease is unlikely as long as you clean the cat's litter box daily.
- Since oocysts are transferred by intake to get toxoplasmosis, the person must come into contact with contaminated stools in the litter box and then, without washing their hand, touch their mouths or otherwise transfer the contaminated faecal substance to their duck stiffsystem.
Take steps to protect yourself against toxoplasmosis
Although it is unlikely that you will get toxoplasmosis from your cat, it is good to be as careful as possible.
- Avoid research.
- Wash all boiled vegetables thoroughly.
- Wash all the cutting board and the utensils that may have come into contact with meat before being used.
- Wear gloves through gardening or work for other reasons in the ground.If you do not wear gloves, then wash thoroughly.
- Ask your partner, the neighbors of friends to help with litter box assignments while you are pregnant.
- If you do not help to keep the cash box clean, wear rubber gloves when you change waste and then wash your hand thoroughly.
- Let the nest of your cat change daily.
- Keep your cat inside.
One last thought
Sensible precautions will protect you against toxoplasmosis during your pregnancy and to get rid of your cat would be an unnecessary cruelty for you both.If you are worried about your goodness your pregnancy and after the birth of a child.
