Toxoplasmosis?

[Firsttimemum27weeks]

Saw this morning I made a bowl of strawberries they were fine until I got to one in which I ate half and after I swallowed had the after taste of cat pee🤢
should I be concerned or is it just a gone off piece? will baby be okay?

I’m sure you’ll be fine!

You'll be fine op, I have to change my cats litter tray all the time because my husband works away. Just don't eat any more of the strawberries especially unwashed.

Thank you, yes I did wash them under the tap and removed the storks three were fine until I ate that one and it was literally so pungent! Slightly worried if it will affect the baby if I’m honest

You washed them, you be fine.

Yes popped them under running water for a few seconds and then cut the storks off but one just happened to have a after taste… as in sudden panic I was worried that I’ve just eaten something that’s gonna affect the baby!
(before you think I’m nuts I have anxiety which is being helped by a wonderful counsellor.)

It wasn’t cat pee, though, probably just a bit of ammonia, so nothing that can harm the baby at all.

Do I need to contact my midwife at all?

Do you have a cat? What’s your profession? Regularly in the past eat cured meat?

I ask because if yes to a number of the above then you likely already have it. It’s only an issue if you get it for the first time during PG.

Something like 70% of French women have already had toxo due to their lovely charcuterie diets. So over there they panic less about it.

Im a gardener (it’s found in soils), with a cat and eat a lot of that and so I was tested and found to not be at risk so I continued to work and eat dried meat throughout pregnancy.

Try not to panic.

Hello yes I have cats -
these were store bought strawberries

I think it’s only cat poo you can get it from, so if you just ate cat wee you should be fine.

More likely it was just a bitter strawberry… it’s not really strawberry season anymore (in the UK anyway).

I’m sure you’ll be fine, don’t worry.

If you have cats it’s highly likely you already have it. Don’t worry.

But you can ask your midwife to do you a toxoplasmosis antibody test to put your mind at ease for the rest of pregnancy.

Make sure it’s an antibody test and not a live toxo test of positive or negative. Hope that makes sense.

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I hope not, I have half the punnet left and just had a quick sniff and cannot smell the cat pee so must of just been a mushy one???

I asked my midwife and they said the NHS does not do antibody tests for toxoplasmosis and that she didn't know how I would go about having the test.

They do do it. I had one.

Here’s an nhs page on one www.nwlpathology.nhs.uk/tests-database/toxoplasma-screen/

TBH they might not do it unless occupationally required. I was a gardener and so exposed daily through work. If it’s just because I wanted to eat charcuterie or was freaking out about my cat they might not have done it.

I’ve spoken to my midwife she said it’s possibly just pregnancy tastebuds! Advised to drink plenty and hopefully I’m not sick with it!