Toxoplasmosis is an infection caused by Toxoplasma gondii which is a kind of parasite. The parasite is often found in the intestines of animals such as cats or pigs. People can avoid being infected by it by not eating unwashed or undercooked food and avoid feces of infected cats. Most people with it don’t need treatment. Once the treatment is necessary, antibiotic is often used.
Toxoplasmosis is an infection caused by a parasite, which lives in the intestines of animals such as cats and pigs. In some cases, the condition can cause symptoms like flu but most affected people never develop symptoms and signs. People with a weak immune system and infants born from infected mothers can experience extremely severe complications from the condition. Healthy people do not need any care for toxoplasmosis but those with lowered immunity or pregnancy can need some medications in order to reduce the severity of the infection. Prevention is in any case better. For a strong immune system, toxoplasmosis is not a danger since the infection will be fought without trouble. After being infected, most people are resistant to the condition forever. Toxoplasmosis can cause a stillbirth or miscarriage in mothers infected during pregnancy or the condition can affect the baby with severe complications such as congenital toxoplasmosis. People in danger are also those having chemotherapy, a transplant of an organ or living with HIV. In such people, toxoplasmosis can spread to the brain, lungs, heart or eyes.
The reasons of getting toxoplasmosis including 1) contact with the remains of infected animals such as pigs or cats, 2) eating raw or undercooked meat that is contaminated by the parasite, 3) using utensils or cutting boards, which are contaminated by the parasite, 4) drinking contaminated water, and 5) infection through organ transplant or blood transfusion. People with toxoplasmosis can be without symptoms, but toxoplasmosis can still cause some serious problems such as damages of brain, eyes or other organs for certain people, especially those with weak immune system or babies who are infected by their mothers during pregnancy. Besides, toxoplasmosis can also result in symptoms such as swollen lymph nodes, fatigue, headache, body aches, fever, confusion, blurry vision, seizure, trouble with balance and lungs.
Normally toxoplasmosis does not require treatment. If the treatment is needed, antibiotic is often used for toxoplasmosis. Somehow, people can also avoid toxoplasmosis by the following suggestions: 1) wearing gloves when working in the dirt, 2) washing hands with soap and warm water before preparing food, 3) avoiding rubbing eyes or face when preparing food, 4) not eating unwashed food, undercooked meat and untreated water, 5) avoiding feces of infected cats.
Several years of work in academia, medical practice and finally commercialization make it possible to provide an end-to-end process to help users to “find the appropriate medical help based on their present symptoms”. Below you will find a short explanation, showing you which part of the platform will help you best in finding the appropriate medical support.
Proceed as follows to enter your current symptoms.
Click on the appropriate body part on the picture. Select one/multiple symptoms corresponding to your complaint.
You can also add symptoms by typing your medical complaint in the search box and selecting the best matching suggestion.
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Once you have selected all applicable symptoms, click the “analyze disease pattern”-button.
Accordingly, you will get a list of possible diseases and matching doctor categories who can further help you.
You can inform yourself about the possible diseases by reading the related information. But you can also return to the previous step and add more symptoms or delete already added ones to further narrow down your disease pattern.
Click on the desired doctor category to find a doctor who can help you.
If you are logged in with your profile, you will be displayed the appropriate doctors in your area. Otherwise you can enter an address in the “address” field and you will be displayed a doctor’s list around that specified address.
You will receive further information about the displayed doctors when you press on “details”.
Online bookable doctors in your area will be indicated with the notation “Book appointment” or “Book externally”, additionally they will be displayed on top of the list for your convenience.
Click on “Book appointment” to start the online appointment booking process with the desired doctor.
Please select an available appointment. “Green“ appointments are booked directly. “Red“ appointments need to be confirmed by the doctor.
Enter your general personal and health information.
Enter your present medical symptoms.
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