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What treatment is required for carriers of typhoid fever?
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It requires treatment with one or even two different medications over a period of four to six weeks. The antibiotics most commonly given are ampicillin (sometimes given together with probenecid) and amoxicillin.
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What the treatment for typhoid fever?
You have ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone injections, azithromycin and chloramphenicol to treat the typhoid fever. One of the above drug can treat the typhoid fever.
What is the complete treatment of typhoid?
Treatment of typhoid is complete, when the patient is no more the carrier of typhoid fever. It was a common problem in olden days when chloramphenicol was used to treat the typhoid fever. Chloramphenicol is a bacteriostatic drug. With the advent of bactericidal drugs, you have less number of carriers of typhoid fever. You have to do repeated culture of stool sample to rule out the carrier stage. Some times the typhoid bacteria is hidden in gall bladder and then you may have to remove the gall bladder. Such precautions are practically never taken in developing countries.
Where does typhoid fever hide?
It is fairly common to have typhoid bacteria in your stool for one or two weeks after you get the typhoid fever. Most chronic carriers have got the typhoid bacteria in their gall bladder. They pass them via stool, periodically.
How is typhoid fever passed to others?
Typhoid fever is passed to others by fecal oral route. So the bacteria are in the feces of the patient and carriers of typhoid fever. The bacteria goes to your mouth by way of contaminated water, by way of hands and by way of houseflies to your food.
What is the best treatment for chronic typhoid?
Paratyphoid fever is treated with antibiotics over a two- to three-week period
Is it possible to remove typhoid fever from the world?
NO, because it is impossible to find out what people are carriers and it would be impossible to find out because most carriers are in foreign countries.
Does typhoid fever has reservoir?
Patient is carrier of typhoid fever for few weeks. Many asymptomatic cases of typhoid are also carriers of typhoid for few weeks. Occasionally the person becomes chronic carrier of typhoid bacteria. Such people are very dangerous, when they work in cooking profession and have poor personal hygiene. You should read the story of Typhoid Mary from USA.
What is the meaning of typhoid?
Typhoid is similar to typhus fever. So it is probably called as typhoid fever. Typhoid has surpassed the typhus fever in prevalence to great extent.
How does typhoid fever affect your daily life?
While sick with typhoid fever, people suffer from high fevers that can cause delirium. They may develop rose spotted rashes, diarrhea, headaches, and perforations in the intestines. Antibiotics are able to treat the disease and carriers should not work with food to prevent the spreading of typhoid fever.
Do people recover or die from typhoid fever?
Without treatment some 15 to 20 % patient of typhoid die. With good medical treatment the mortality is less than one percent.
What typhoid fever?
Typhoid fever (also known as Enteric fever) is caused by a strain of "Salmonella" bacteria (Salmonellae typhi) when they are spread through the body by the white blood cells that attempted to destroy them. Salmonella are ingested from contaminated food or water and enter the body through the intestinal tract. Symptoms include general fever, headache, body ache, and fatigue. Increased heart rate can occur. Complications include infections, pneumonia, and intestinal bleeding.An early treatment was the drug chloramphenicol, but today the treatment is with any of a number of antibiotics. After treatment, a small minority of infected persons become carriers of the disease.
Can typhoid fever be found in Zimbabwe?
Yes. Typhoid fever is common there.
