Diagnosis and Treatment of Toxoplasmosis
When it is suspected that a pregnant woman contracted the infection, can do some analysis of blood for antibodies and other tests to determine whether you have the parasite. If the result is positive and if it proves that the infection is active, it is recommended that women receive urgent treatment with antibiotics if it is established that the fetus is not yet infected, thus avoiding any risk to the fetus.
If it is suspected that the fetus is infected, it is through the mother, with substances to reduce the frequency and severity of the symptoms of the fetus. Time is a decisive factor. The earlier the mother is less likely the baby getting symptoms.
Treatment of fetuses infected by toxoplasmosis
Research to try to develop more effective methods for diagnosis and treatment of disease during pregnancy as a way to prevent infection in the fetus, are continuing.
Infected babies, among them those who have no symptoms, are usually treated with medications, whose intake should continue throughout the first year of life or even longer.
One study found that approximately 75% of infected babies being treated have normal intelligence and none of them have developed hearing loss.
Many of the babies infected have no symptoms at birth is not subject to treatment because they are not diagnosed until they develop an eye infection or other problems, sometimes months or years after birth. Therefore, babies whose mothers are diagnosed with toxoplasmosis during pregnancy should be tested. Early treatment favors a good recovery.
