The question of whether you can keep a pet during pregnancy has always been a topic of constant debate.
Supporters: Pregnant pets can make children more loving and more companionable. So many people abroad raise their children with dogs and cats, and they can also have a "dog" nanny to take care of their children.
Opponents: Dogs and cats have so many bacteria, but also prone to Toxoplasma infection, firmly opposed, children and the elderly should not appear in the same space with pets!
This kind of debate often causes many families to disagree, in fact, the most popular of many debates is nothing more than Toxoplasma gondii. Opponents believe that pets can infect pregnant women with Toxoplasma gondii, causing fetal malformation, abortion and other consequences. For this reason, when many people get married, they will give away their pet cats and dogs that they have raised for many years, or even abandon them and transfer them to dog dealers. . Such times are too numerous to mention. There are two kinds of friends around, one is once pregnant, the dog will understand to send away, the other is pregnant will not abandon. Today, I would like to tell you the story of my best friend. Her family has a golden retriever who is 7 years old and a two-year-old child. They get along well with each other. Of course, this is not all plain sailing. Let me share with you the experience of dogs and pregnant women.
Raising dogs mainly focuses on whether Toxoplasma gondii causes fetal malformation. First of all, we need to understand what Toxoplasma gondii is, its infection channels, and then make a conclusion. We should look at the problem from a scientific and rigorous point of view, not from subjective consciousness.
What is Toxoplasma gondii?
Toxoplasma gondii is a single-celled parasite that infects almost all warm-blooded animals, including pet cats, dogs and humans.
Feline is the only definitive host of Toxoplasma gondii, which means that Toxoplasma gondii can only produce infectious eggs in felines. Everybody sees clearly, is the cat family animal, if said that you all cannot distinguish the cat family animal, that nine year compulsory educational administration is really read in vain, your biology is the physical education teacher teaches ~ ~
Secondly, we are looking at the conditions for Toxoplasma infection. After reading it, I think you will say that this condition is too harsh. If you want to be infected, it is no different from the probability of 5 million lottery tickets hitting you. At the same time, I would like to say that Toxoplasma gondii is immune for life, you can do a check before pregnancy, if it is positive, that you have been infected, then congratulations, you can rest assured during pregnancy bold ~ ~ (The following pictures are from the Internet)
To sum up:
1. First of all, for a cat to be infected with Toxoplasma gondii, it must eat raw meat or carry feces with hatched eggs of Toxoplasma gondii.
2. Secondly, incubation conditions, at least 24 hours, that is, fresh and warm cat feces are ineffective, must be at least overnight (this is a smelly picture ~ ~)
3. Finally, when the cat is infected and the owner wants to be infected, he also has to eat the overnight feces of the cat infected with Toxoplasma gondii.
Marriage and pet are just foreshadowing.
Because my best friend is not young, she has basically reached the age of late marriage and late childbirth, so when she gets married, she is doomed to need to prepare for pregnancy immediately. Her parents-in-law are naturally not very happy that her daughter-in-law has to keep a dog, and it is a relatively large golden retriever (you can imagine that the golden retriever is about 70 kilograms). Although the parents-in-law did not explicitly prohibit it, but also through the constant lobbying of her best friend's husband, naturally she did not want her daughter-in-law to live with the dog after marriage. Friends as a responsible host, golden retriever was already five years old at that time, five years of companionship and love can not be broken away, and after many scientific demonstrations, pet does not conflict with pregnancy, but also can increase the degree of pleasure of pregnant women and reduce pregnancy reaction.
Friends searched for a lot of knowledge, reports and information about Toxoplasma gondii, and then carried out "ideological education" and knowledge popularization for their parents-in-law after preliminary persuasion to their husbands. With a scientific, serious and rigorous attitude, we can demonstrate and persuade them with reason and evidence. Later, at the insistence of her best friend, the golden retriever lived with her smoothly.
Preparation before pregnancy
As a girl who is preparing for pregnancy and raising pets, it is natural to first check the dog for Toxoplasma gondii, and at the same time, she should also check for Toxoplasma gondii. If you have been infected with Toxoplasma gondii, congratulations, you are immune for life. If not, you may need to be extra careful. My friend's test results were negative, which means that neither the dog nor her has been infected with Toxoplasma gondii. At this time, what we need to do is to guard against the infection of Toxoplasma gondii. For example, stay away from feline feces, undercooked meat, and dirt. To the greatest extent possible to ensure that they will not be infected with Toxoplasma gondii. This is also the basis for reassuring parents-in-law and family harmony.
Strengthen the training of pets before pregnancy
During pregnancy, pregnant women should pay a little attention to their interaction with pets, mainly because the golden retriever is relatively large and easy to be injured by mistake. So be sure to train your pet to stop, wait, sit down, lie down and other patience and restraint before pregnancy. Only in this way can we lay a solid foundation for a happy future. Only when pets learn to "calm down" can they avoid "accidental injury" to the greatest extent.
Then after the birth of the child, it may be necessary to temporarily quarantine the pet, do not let the child and the golden retriever have a greater conflict with each other. At the same time, during pregnancy, you can consider using dolls and other props to let pets adapt to a new member of the family, accept the new mode of getting along, so that it is easier to get along well in the later period.
Pregnancy or marriage is not an excuse for pet owners to abandon their pets irresponsibly, change hands or even abandon them directly. As long as pets are raised in a scientific way, regular physical examinations are carried out, behavioral training is carried out for pets before pregnancy, and knowledge popularization and comfort work for family members are done well in advance. Pregnancy and pets can coexist, and scientific research shows that children with pets are more loving, but also contribute to the development of children's character and personality. Keeping pets
scientifically starts from me.
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