Toxoplasmosis

The disease develops as a result of intrauterine infection of the fetus from the mother, who has a toxoplasmosis. Infection of the fetus can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, severe, often incompatible with life, lesions. Symptomatology is expressed in 25% of newborns. Most children remain carriers of the disease, i.e. It can manifest itself in the long term.
In the acute phase, the proceeding is general, ie. Affecting all organs and systems, fever, chills, weakness, jaundice, liver and spleen increase, rash, drowsiness, lethargy, muscle tone decreased, there may be a strabismus. With a less pronounced picture, when inflammatory processes in various organs proceed in a nonparallel manner, hydrocephalus or hydrocephalus of the brain (see below), changes in the eyes (lens opacity and other pathological states) gradually develops. In chronic course, there are irreversible changes in the central nervous system, accompanied by a lag in the child's mental development, the development of blindness, and so on.
Mandatory hospitalization. Of the drugs - chloride, suprastin, vitamins, fortifying agents. When chronic toxoplasmosis is administered intradermally toxoplasmine, the treatment of the central nervous system diseases, the eye. The dispensary observation is shown in the neuropathologist, oculist.
Observance of women's personal hygiene - washing hands after work, especially when contacting raw meat, careful processing by boiling or steaming, freezing at a temperature of -20 ± C. Cats, which are the main carriers of toxoplasm, should be periodically inspected, it is impossible to feed them with raw meat, and allow contamination of the soil with their feces. Do not keep at home and feed sick cats.