Toxoplasmosis

The answer to Mrs. Malysheva, who broadcasts to the whole country about the wild danger of infection with toxoplasmosis from cats.

Dear Elena Vasilyevna, before aggravating the obscurantism of our people in matters of parasitology, it is necessary to thoroughly familiarize yourself with the subject. It is impossible to carry "nonsense" so indiscriminately from the main channel of a large country. Well, it's a shame, by God, to listen to you......To get infected with toxoplasmosis from a kitty , you still have to try very , very hard .. The people in the outback, of course, are not very enlightened, but I assure you - no one eats cat feces anywhere...

A domestic cat can get infected by contact with the soil (your shoes, lawn soil, a bag of potatoes brought from the dacha). A non-domestic cat can get into the list of causes of infection: breakfast from a sick mouse, or, sorry, a rat, or an infected bird.

In the cat's body, toxoplasm becomes sexually mature and gives birth to up to 10 million oocysts that come out of the cat, attention! not through the eyes and mouth, but with feces. And, absolutely attention!!!! - a fresh oocyst (a toxoplasma baby) is not able to infect a person, since it has not completed the maturation cycle. Maturation takes place in the soil (in the ground!) about a week.

Therefore , it is possible to get infected with toxoplasmosis directly from a domestic cat only in the following cases:

1. You use dried cat feces for cosmetic purposes or, God forbid, for medicinal purposes.
2. You do not clean the cat tray for weeks or clean it by pouring feces into flower pots in order to fertilize the soil in your favorite ficus.
3. All cat feces are collected in a plastic bag in a common corridor with unloved neighbors (they don't like the smell, you see) and then the contents of the bag are taken to the dacha to fertilize cucumber beds.

That is, from a domestic cat, you are very unlikely to get infected with toxoplasmosis, even if you enter into non-traditional sexual relations with her in the form of kisses in the ass.

There are more risks of infection from a non-domestic cat, but this risk does not depend on your direct contact. That is, a cat, in order to get infected with toxoplasmosis, you do not need it directly at all.

We need elementary:

1. In no case do not wash the tomatoes and cucumbers, and more that are straight from the garden, wash spoil the fragrance of pristine and washed oocytes of Toxoplasma that there scattered, some not home cat when cocoa shyly behind a Bush parsley...
2. Eat meat (drinking blood) herbivores, provided that the flesh (and blood) were not adequate heat treatment.

A little bit from the life of toxoplasma.

When the embryo of the future toxoplasma leaves the cat's body, it is small and stupid. He still cannot and does not want to harm anyone. She just wants to live. A small toxoplasma, even just a grain of toxoplasma lives in the soil (under favorable conditions of temperature and humidity up to a year) and ripens. And some goat, or cow, or even the wrong pig, who does not like half-eaten pasta, but loves clover, will come, eat grass with grains of already mature toxoplasma and ... and will have the opportunity to become the master of toxoplasma. A mature toxoplasm comes out of the seed and is ready for a stormy party. It is actively introduced into the host's body, and affects mainly delicatessen areas: neck, tenderloin, shoulder blade, heart and brain. And if these very areas are not fried until ready, then toxoplasma in its most active stage will miraculously penetrate into the body of someone who has eaten a steak with blood.

Good news:

1. Asymptomatic carriage of toxoplasma is widespread, especially in countries with hot and humid climates, while the DISEASE is much less common.
2. For pregnant women, the primary acute disease is dangerous, since infection of the fetus is possible only with parasitemia - the ingestion of toxic toxoplasma into the blood.
3. Ordinary laboratory tests will answer the question: primary infection or latent carrier (not dangerous for a pregnant woman). To do this, it is necessary to take IgM and IgG to toxoplasma.
4. I emphasize very much: treatment in pregnant women is carried out ONLY with a proven acute stage of infection.

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