Exotic parasites, viruses dangerous for pregnant women

Ths-DR Le Van Hien, Deputy Medical Director, BV obstetrician (HO CHI MINH CITY. HCM), said: women who become pregnant if infected with CMV at risk of miscarriage, stillbirths, fetal infection and especially at risk of causing CMV infection perinatal or congenital CMV. If CMV-infected first, this rate up to 50-60%. Children with congenital CMV infection the risk of perinatal mortality is very high, if not death also affects the mental development, blind, deaf ... Perinatal CMV means children born infected CMV from the mother during and after birth due to exposure to blood, milk, vaginal ... of the mother.

When congenital CMV infection, the child may be hemorrhagic spots, liver, spleen, jaundice; the skull is small, slow intellectual development; inflammation of the retina; up to 20-30% of cases will be fatal. However, infected mothers usually first (first CMV infection) causes congenital CMV, while adults Vietnam most of the infected were from this small, should the then re-infect or reactivation should at least be congenital CMV.

Always keep your hands clean is the first way to prevent CMV infection. Should wash their hands after contact with body secretions, exudates is young body; do not use with children, food eating joint in common tablespoons, cups; No kissing on the mouth of the child; catering hygiene.

Not only the HIV virus, rubella, Herpes B virus dangerous for pregnant women and the fetus, some viruses, other parasites little is referred to as CMV, t. gondii ... also cause miscarriage, fetal malformations.

TS-BS Ngo Thi Kim Phung, Department of obstetrics and gynaecology, UNIVERSITY of medicine. HCM, said: Toxoplasma gondii (t. gondii) is a parasite (KST) live and reproduce in the cat's digestive tract, can infect most of the animals. When infect people, KST will infect toxoplasmosis. We are at risk of infection with t. gondii as carnivorous, meat re-infect KST, exposure to cat feces in gondii t. follicles, from water, soil, contaminated garbage.

If the mother is infected in the first three months of pregnancy, will have higher risk of miscarriage, abortion, infant infections. The risk of pregnancy toxoplasmosis infection increases with gestational age: when pregnant 13 weeks of age, the rate of about 6%, if 36 weeks, the rate of growth up to 72%. About 70-90% of children with toxoplasmosis infection have no symptoms, but if the symptoms are very severe: light weight, liver spleen, jaundice, anemia; be the neuropathy as nodules calcified intracranial, hydrocephalus, brain; inflammation of the retina, the deaf; or can include inflammation of the retina, intracranial calcification, Hydrocephalus (often with seizures).

Pregnant mothers should note the exclusion of the risk of toxoplasmosis infection can: eat cooked meat; don't eat vegetables, fruit not washed thoroughly; wash hands with SOAP and warm water before eating, especially after exposure to cats, living flesh; wear gloves when gardening and washing hands after gardening.=

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