Toxoplasmosis Songenital
Toxoplasmosis Songenital Causes
If the mother is infected with toxoplasmosis, the fetus can also be infected. Or if the mother has a history of toxoplasmosis during her previous pregnancies, then the fetus may be infected.
Toxoplasmosis Songenital Definition
Congenital toxoplasmosis is the infection caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii that is transmitted to the fetus during pregnancy.
Toxoplasmosis Songenital Diagnosis
Among the questions that needed to be answered when diagnosing the disease are is the mother infected during or shortly before the pregnancy, is the fetus infected, and is the newborn child infected?
Toxoplasmosis Songenital Symptoms and Signs
The disease may damage the baby's eyes, skin, nervous system, and ears. Other sysmptoms may include anemia, enlarged liver, and spleen, jaundice, eye damage from inflammation of the retina, low birth weight, prematurity, and skin rash at birth. Physical examination may reveal signs of anemia, cerebral calcifications, hydrocephalus, lymphdenopathy, macrocephaly or microcephaly. Prenatal tests among pregnant women may include amniotic fluid testing, antibody titer, and ultrasound of the abdomen. During the later stage of the disease, hearing loss, mental retardation, seizures, neurological problems, and visual impairment.
Toxoplasmosis Songenital Treatment
Among pregnant mothers, spiramycin can treat the infection. Pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine meanwhile can be used to treat fetal infection and usually lasts for a year.