Can I catch Toxoplasmosis from a Cat Scratch? - toxoplasmosis more condition_symptoms
Are there any vets or doctors available? I am 12 weeks pregnant and yesterday, my friends cat scratched me ... It was more like a stab wound. Anyway, can cause I'm out of my mind, worried about toxoplasmosis, miscarriage and stillbirth. I called the vet, he said, "must eat" the parasite and can not be transmitted through a scratch. But then the doctor phoned me to tell me that you fish, and give a blood test! I'm so scared, can someone advise me?
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Toxoplasmosis More Condition_symptoms Can I Catch Toxoplasmosis From A Cat Scratch?
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The vet is absolutely correct, you can not catch toxoplasmosis from a cat scratch! Knowing a rule, veterinarians much about zoonoses (diseases transmissible from animals) to people that do the doctors, as we through our courses!
Toxoplasma infection occurs when the vet told her that accidental ingestion of the parasite. In children, it usually occurs by the addition of oocysts (the "eggs") of parasites. As an adult, you are more likely to become infected by eating undercooked meat, especially lamb. If you already have owned cats for a period of time or when you are playing on the land or sand like a child who has probably already been exposed in all cases, which means there is almost no risk to your baby. The blood test tells you whether you have antibodies against toxoplasmosis.
There are certain precautions you can take --
* If you do not take gardening, make sure to wash gloves and hands, then.
* Wash fresh vegetables, etc., thoroughly
* Noeat well-cooked meat, unless
I hope this will put your mind to calm.
Check out this article, it is highly unlikely that you have toxoplasmosis. But you can check them out immediately on the right side.
http://www.womens-health.co.uk/toxo.asp
You can get toxoplasmosis from:
* Accidentally swallowing cat feces from a Toxoplasma-infected cat that loses the organism in their feces. This can happen if you accidentally touch your hands to touch your mouth after gardening, cleaning the cat litter, or something that has been in contact with cat feces. Eating contaminated raw or partially cooked meat, especially pork, lamb or game, touching their hands in their mouth after handling undercooked meat.
* Contamination of food with knives, utensils, cutting boards and other foods that have been in contact with raw meat.
* Drinking water contaminated with Toxoplasma.
* Received an organ transplant or transfusion of infected blood, although this is rare.
Toxoplasmosis is transmitted through feces, and not a scratch. However, the strips are susceptible to infections and should keep it clean, ask your gynecologist to determine whether or not that antibiotics can have.
In its strict, if you're washing your hands, you sure.
Most cats do not even have it. Most people are still in the garden (outside the earth) and immune suspended.
There is a very slim chance of the litter clean, but the cat would be a carrier and not many are. (You can use it as an excuse, even if someone else to do the duty litter box, LOL!). If a pregnant woman with a cat concerns about the cleanliness of the box, you need only use rubber gloves to wash, but really with water and soap.
If you wash the new, you're safe.
It is recommended to keep from cats and their "bad" during pregnancy is not safe to speak anything, please, if you're really worried UR UR immediately with the midwife for help or advice, good luck
Ok Im not a vet or a doctor, but I am a breeder of cats
As far as I know that you stop eating that you are in these wastes, so its best not in the trash when you are dealing with a baby.
As far as I know that couldnt get a zero, I will Defo clean the wound and make sure always wash their hands after a collision with an animal.
Take the test, but I am sure that the contact with cat waste.
Try not to make too worried, the doctor is the right test to ensure
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