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Toxoplasmosis & CMV

Toxoplasmosis et infectio cytomegaloviralis · Toxoplazmóza a cytomegalovirus

What it is

Two common infections that matter in pregnancy and in immune suppression.

Symptoms & signs

  • Usually silent
  • glandular fever-like illness
  • eye inflammation
  • brain lesions in HIV
  • deafness or brain damage in the newborn

🚩 Get help if…

  • call 112 / 911 now Confusion, fits or new weakness in someone with weak immunity
  • see a doctor soon Blurred vision, floaters or eye pain
  • see a doctor soon Fever or swollen glands during pregnancy
  • see a doctor soon A positive test or contact with cat litter or raw meat in pregnancy

Where it strikes

Medical treatment

  • Pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine for toxoplasmosis
  • valganciclovir for CMV
  • prophylaxis in advanced HIV
  • treat infected newborns

Natural & lifestyle

  • Cook meat thoroughly
  • gloves for gardening and cat litter
  • wash produce
  • hand hygiene around toddlers in pregnancy

Emerging & experimental

  • CMV vaccines in trials
  • newborn CMV screening programmes

Alternative, off-label & anecdotal

Approaches used outside the guidelines, with what their supporters report and what testing has found so far.

  • Artemisinin derivatives — laboratory activity against toxoplasma early / small studies
  • Garlic — untested anecdotal / traditional

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