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The treatment for Toxo isn`t a easy one: when thing get serious you take massive doses of pyrimethamine and sulfadizine, for example, and have to take extra fol
by woliveirajr 9y ago
The treatment for Toxo isn`t a easy one: when thing get serious you take massive doses of pyrimethamine and sulfadizine, for example, and have to take extra folinic acid (not folic, folinic).
And it won't kill all T. Gondii, it will remain latent inside your body.
There were some studied, few years ago, about combining pyrimethamine and aminoacids to kill the latent toxo, but I didn't find the results, if it even worked or not.
For almost everybody, infection will go away without signs. For few others, it will make you remember it for the rest of your life.
- ajmurmann 9y agoThank you for this explanation! I listened to a long radio special about behavior assuring parasites a long time ago. Toxoplasma Gondii played a big role in the report and ever since I've been dumbfounded why we don't treat it. Even though it doesn't seem to have a negative immediate health benefit behavior alteration especially towards higher risk taking is terrifying to me. Thanks to your explanation of the cost of treatment this makes more sense.