WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for May, 1997: Re: Risks of Contracting Toxoplasmosis

Re: Risks of Contracting Toxoplasmosis

From: Joel (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 11 May 1997 11:12:29 +0200

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Jackie Howard wrote: >
> I am just a few weeks pregnant and without thinking allowed my daughter
> to have two kittens. We kept them in a box the first night in our
> garage. The next morning, I got the kittens out to give them a good
> bath. After the fact, I remembered the issue of cat feces and
> pregnancy. I'm worried that I may have been exposed while getting the
> kittens out of the box which had some feces in it and then in giving
> them a bath. What should I do? I've contacted a vet to take the kittens
> in for tests to see if they have toxo. Should I contact my doctor
> immediately to test me as well? The kittens are outside, so I haven't
> had any other contact with them since this incident.
>
> --
> Jackie Howard

What is your personnal position vs toxo (blood test) It's an emergecy to do the test. If you had it, no problem. If you didn't, no kill the cats, let them live ! But try to let somebody else "play" with the feces ! and look regularly your blood serology of toxo.

--
Joel Kompanietz, M.D. CNGOF,
OBGYN.net International Representative, France
Mazamet, France

http://www.obgyn.net/country/i-bios/joelk.htm

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