Not exact matches
Choose an obstetrician or health care provider Interview potential doctors Contact health insurance company about coverage Start and pregnancy and birth budget Discuss financial effects of pregnancy and baby with partner Stop smoking Stop drinking Stop using street drugs Talk to your physician about any prescription medications Drink at least 8 glasses of water every day Visit the doctor at least once per month or every 4 weeks Do not dye or perm hair Stop drinking coffee and other caffeinated beverages Exercise daily Start taking prenatal vitamins Eat foods rich in folic acid Eat iron rich foods Increase daily intake of whole grains, fruits and vegetables Nap as much as possible as fatigue is common Eat fish with low levels of mercury no
more than 2 days per week Do not eat
undercooked meats Do not eat unpasteurized dairy producs Do not eat cold cut deli
meats Allow someone else to clean out the kitty litter, if applicable Limit exposure to chemicals Try to limit stress and tension Complete all prenatal tests — HIV, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Anemia, Blood Typing, Sickle Cell Anemia, Urine Screening and Rubella.
But there's an important difference: The wild game that I see served in fancy restaurants in the capital of Cameroon is much
more likely to transmit a dangerous virus to the person who hunted and butchered it, or to the cook who prepared it, or to the restaurant patron who ate the
meat undercooked, than is my brunch of smoked fish and bagels.
To reduce your risk of infection, your doctor may have recommended you avoid unpasteurized milk and cheese,
undercooked meat or egg products, unheated luncheon
meats or hot dogs, sprouts and cantaloupe while pregnant because these foods are
more likely to contain the pathogen.
It is possible that you could swallow a flea, and yes, you could get a tapeworm that way, but humans are
more likely to come down with a species of tapeworm that is passed through raw or
undercooked meat or fish.
Undercooked meat is also
more likely to contain dangerous bacteria and parasites that can harm your dog's health.
More commonly, it is the result of stress or bacterial intestinal infections (campylobacter, salmonella) when
undercooked or raw
meat products are included in their diets.
The zoonotic disease called toxoplasmosis is spread primarily through contact with the ground outside or the
more common contact with
undercooked meat but this disease can also infect humans through feces and the litter box — NOT the cat itself.
It's rare for a woman to be infected for the first time during pregnancy, and some experts argue that you're much
more likely to catch it from eating raw,
undercooked or cured
meat than from your cat.
You're far
more likely to catch it from
undercooked meat than from your cat, in any case.
What they do have to avoid is the pathogen toxoplasma gondii, which is spread
more commonly by raw and
undercooked meat and can also be found in cat poo.
European studies suggest that
more people get Toxoplasmosis from
undercooked meat, unpasteurised milk and garden dirt than from their cats.