Tips and Tricks Avoiding Toxoplasma Virus

Thursday, September 2, 2010

TIPS AND TRICKS

Toxoplasma virus is a virus that caused or spread by animals that are around us, such as chickens, cats, birds, rats, pigeons, goats, cows, dogs, and others. In addition toxoplasma virus can also be caused by intermediaries (indirect) such as eating raw vegetables, undercooked meat or because food contaminated by feces your pet and other causes.

If a pregnant woman infected with Toxoplasma, the consequences which can occur is spontaneous abortion or miscarriage (4%), stillbirth (3%) or infants suffering from congenital Toxoplasmosis. on congenital Toxoplasmosis, symptoms can appear as an adult, such as eye and ear abnormalities, mental retardation, convulsions and encephalitis.

Well, how do we avoid the virus toxoplasma, and what are the efforts that we can do? Here are tips and tricks that you can follow.

@!@For those of you who keep a cat, check it periodically to the vet and give vaccinations on a regular basis as well. Because the symptoms are difficult to detect toxoplasma virus, even though these animals had been infected with parasites whose numbers many millions. Therefore, preventing infection better, than the later late.

@!@Always keep the cat hygiene, foods, feces, body. Give cooked foods don't give raw meat because there are great possibilities that are still infective Toxoplasma cysts. Dispose of feces as soon as possible, can be doused with hot water before the 48 hours that did not develop cysts. Exhaust / fuel feces before the cyst had sporulation (before 4 days); burn all contaminated items cysts. Feces could also backfilled with soil or sand. Keep your cat's body hygiene, bathe at least 3x a week. In order to avoid skin lice, viruses, parasites, or bacteria that can cause disease and spread it to humans.

@!@Keep your personal hygiene by washing hands before eating, after handling pet cats and clean all your dishes, if necessary, drying your dishes under the hot sun, so all the germs and viruses die.

@!@Also your food intake, make sure absolutely avoid viruses, such as cooking with ripe, don't eat undercooked or raw of mutton, lamb, beef and chicken. Wash all vegetables and fruits that you eat, because it can be transmitted through contamination of food, drinks and soil. Cooking food properly. Heating at a temperature of 700C for 15-30 minutes can be deadly oocyst.

@!@In women planning a pregnancy are encouraged to perform blood tests (serological) prior to the possibility of a virus toxoplasma. For pregnant women avoid contact with cats and feces.

@!@Blood donors / organs should be performed screening test for toxoplasma.

So, hopefully the tips and tricks can be useful for you ..


Regards
Tips and Tricks

You can also read another articles by Tips and Tricks...