All you need to know about toxoplasmosis during pregnancy
Where does the toxoplasmosis come from during pregnancy, and how to protect yourself from likely infection? Diagnosis and treatment of pathology
Toxoplasmosis is a pretty simple illness that disadvantages almost every person in his life. It is distinguished by asymptomatic flow and is safe for the human body. However, for a pregnant woman, such a disease can turn into a real catastrophe.
Toxoplasmosis during pregnancy can become fatal, and maybe on the contrary, to move surprisingly easily and not harm the future kid. Let’s figure it out what kind of disease is and how they are infected?
How to the infection of toxoplasmosis?
There are factors that can really harm you during the period of to wear, even if they seem completely harmless, and even familiar at first glance. The first such factor is your pets.
They provoke not only allergic reactions to their saliva and wool, but also other, no less dangerous disorders and violations.
The main source of toxoplasmosis is … Cats! Yes, your favorite can fully carry this disease and be a potential danger of pregnancy for you yourself. Toxoplasm – causative agents of the disease, live in the intestine of the animal. Their sexual reproduction occurs only in this environment.
Initially it is believed that poultry and rodents are infected with data from cats. Especially dangerous for «Used-striped» Dead Rats and Mice. It is for this reason that the cat, even the rats, are not eaten. If this happens – the cat may die.
However, toxoplasm itself dwells in an animal’s digestive tract in inactive form and infects others. The most dangerous factors in this respect are the feces of a pet that you are removed daily from the tray. Oocysts dwell in the intestinal environment, and do not die immediately, coming out of it. They fall into the soil where the cat is determined, and infect people. However, infection can occur even when banal close communications with pet.
Same «swallow» oocysta you can in the consumption of infected meat or fish in the cheese. And even when cutting meat, the toxoplasm remains on your hands – if after this procedure you carefully do not clean them, the probability of infection with toxoplasmosis increases to the maximum threshold.
Man and other pets are only intermediate owners for toxoplasm. The final owner always becomes a homemade cat or a cat.
Cunning of this disease is that even a pregnant woman may not feel his symptoms. In some cases, the diagnosis of toxoplasmosis occurs in the outpatient conditions of the laboratory or clinic. However, the analysis of this disease is considered mandatory for all future mothers, and it is quite quickly detected in the presence of.
If the IGG antibodies are present in the blood of a pregnant woman, and IGM is not (which is the most frequent and common situation) – it is not worried about what it says that there was no other contact with the infection and you have suffered it asymptomatic. Now you have immunity in the body, and you will not be able to get infected while tooling. If the situation is inverse, you probably have to get rid of your favorite cat for pregnancy, and also strictly fulfill all the rules and instructions prescribed by the doctor.
If the infection has already happened ..
Diagnosis «Toxoplasmosis» Scary even to hear in the period of the magical expectation of the child. But if you drop all paranoid thoughts and dig into the essence of the problem deeper, it may seem not so terrible to you, as you think initially.
The potential danger to the child can be exclusively primary infection of the mother during its excavation period. Simply put, if you have already moved toxoplasmosis in the past, you and your baby threatens nothing now.
If we talk about primary infection, in percentage of pregnancy it looks like this:
- The first trimester is 15% of all cases;
- The second trimester is 30% of all cases;
- Third trimester -60% of all cases.
At the same time, despite the growth of the likelihood of the risk of infection, the effect of toxoplasmosis on the fruit is suppressed in the same chronological order. And its infection occurs far from 100% of all cases.
This means that immediately after the occurrence of pregnancy, that is, in its early periods, the placental barrier is not sensitive to dissimilar pathogenic microorganisms, and misses them to the fetus in rare cases. However, if it happened, the child often gets pathologies incompatible with life. Usually toxoplasm are striking his brain.
In the second trimester, the infection is already more likely, but the pathogenic effect on the fetus decreases. And in the third trimester, even subject to infection (which is most likely to be naming), the child almost never gets serious diseases. Toxoplasmosis proceeds asymptomatic and in his mother, and he has.
Toxoplasm penetrated into the body of the fetus on the first and second trimester of its development, affect the brain and nervous system.
And although many nervous cells can remain unharmed, and the child retains the ability to live, at birth, such pathologies can be identified at birth as:
Mental retardation;- Blindness;
- An increase in intracranial pressure;
- Epilepsy;
- Deafness.
The fruit infected in the third trimester can be born absolutely healthy. However, the probability of its latent carrier of the toxoplasmosis virus is not excluded. In this case, the disease itself can manifest itself in the first months, and even years of life.
Diagnosis of pathology during pregnancy
The analysis on toxoplasmosis is included in the standard stakeholder in pregnancy. And it usually gives up twice – in the first and second trimester. Less often – in the third. If in the first trimester was detected toxoplasmosis with IgG Aviosity, further analyzes can not be passed, as this suggests that there is a high immunity to infection in the maternal. Avidity is a characteristic demonstrating which force antibodies with appropriate antigens are associated with.
Approximate decoding of analyzing toxoplasmosis:
- IgG positive, IGM negative – mother and child does not threaten anything, because the disease was transferred to «Discovered» period, and now there is a persistent immunity;
- IgG is negative, IGM positive is the most unfavorable situation indicating the high risk of primary infection during the hatching;
- IgG positive, IGM positive – says that infection occurred during the past year. This result requires observation and re-check. If the disease was transferred to «Discovered» The period, it means that antibodies have already been developed to the onset of fertilization in the parent organism. However, the option is not excluded that the infection occurred after the toddler conception.
Positive IgG toxoplasmosis during pregnancy is not «harsh verdict», As many young moms believe. And you can make sure that in humans, looking at the decoding. Analysis that you will handle or have already passed, is carried out by PCR (polymerase chain reaction), and it is distinguished by high informative. His only minus is the fact that he does not talk about the limit of infection with accuracy.
So, if IgG toxoplasmosis antibodies are negative, and IGM are positive, the doctor will tell you about the prevention measures during the hatching period.
Also, if you received exactly such a result, the IGG and IGM toxoplasmosis analysis will be carried out additionally in the deployed form. If infection is confirmed, the doctor will appoint you the appropriate therapy.
Often a woman is proposed to interrupt pregnancy, especially if the danger is obvious to the fetus. If it refuses such events, an obstetrician-gynecologist, who oversees its toal process, prescribe adequate therapy.
It must be said that it turns out to be effective, and when infected in the early deadlines, the child can still be born disabled in most cases.
You learned that it means – positive IgG toxoplasmosis, and now you can independently navigate in the results of your own research. Health to you and your baby!
