Anyone with experience of toxoplasmosis in kitty?

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Marlena

Marlena

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Rocky's been diagnosed with severe toxoplasmosis, TgM and TgG sky high.
Vet prescribed clindamycin.
 
Can toxoplasmosis be treated?

Most cats that have toxoplasmosis can recover with treatment. Treatment usually involves a course of an antibiotic called Clindamycin. Other drugs that are used include pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine, which act together to inhibit T. gondii reproduction. Treatment must be started as soon as possible after diagnosis and continued for several days after signs have disappeared. In acute illness, treatment is sometimes started on the basis of a high antibody titer in the first test. If clinical improvement is not seen within two to three days, the diagnosis of toxoplasmosis should be questioned.

Above from:
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/fhc/Health_Information/brochure_toxo.cfm
 
Larry and Kitties said:
Can toxoplasmosis be treated?

Most cats that have toxoplasmosis can recover with treatment. Treatment usually involves a course of an antibiotic called Clindamycin. Other drugs that are used include pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine, which act together to inhibit T. gondii reproduction. Treatment must be started as soon as possible after diagnosis and continued for several days after signs have disappeared. In acute illness, treatment is sometimes started on the basis of a high antibody titer in the first test. If clinical improvement is not seen within two to three days, the diagnosis of toxoplasmosis should be questioned.

Above from:
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/fhc/Health_Information/brochure_toxo.cfm
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Thank you Larry, I've done my research.
I was actually interested in people's experience as nothing is really that straight forward.
There is a form of toxo (latent) where oocysts make themselves at home in kitty's tissues of various organs and they are happy there protected from being killed either by antibiotics or immune system. If Rocky's symptoms don't improve (he is already better, I don't know why as he started improving BEFORE antibiotics) it does not mean it wasn't toxoplasmosis. He might be severely ill from those oocysts lodged in his brain for instance. So he still needs investigation and possible biopsy and surgery.
 
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