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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.
Can Doxycycline monohydrate oral tablet be used to treat typhoid fever?
Doxycycline is useless for typhoid fever.
WHAT IS Vivotiv Berna Vaccine USED FOR?
To treat typhoid fever
What drug is used to treat typhoid fever and brain abscesses?
Chloramphenicol
How did they treat typhoid fever in the 1930's?
by burning the dead ones and all their belongings
The drug that can cause aplastic anemic and is used to treat typhoid fever and brain abscesses is?
Chloramphenicol
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.
How can you treat typhoid dengue malaria together?
It is very common practice in developing countries to treat the typhoid fever as a case of malaria, specially in the first week. You tell patient that he has malaria. He does not respond to your antimalarial treatment. Then you have no option but to tell the patient that he has got both malaria and typhoid at the same time. The fact is that typhoid is usually difficult to diagnose in the first week of fever. It is always better to rule out the malarial fever by giving the antimalarial treatment in first week of febrile illness.
Is typhoid fever related to malaria?
No. Not at all. Malaria is a parasitic infection from mosquitoes. You can treat malaria by anti-malaria drugs. There is no vaccine. Typhoid fever is caused by a bacteria. People infected by this bacteria can spread it to other people who contaminate food or water. There is a typhoid vaccine and the infection can be treated with antibiotics.
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.
Can you be chronic typhoid carrier for 40 years?
Before 1980's you used to treat typhoid fever with Chloramphenicol antibiotic for 10 to 14 days. It is a 'bacteriostatic' antibiotic and there used to be many cases of chronic carrier. Few used to relapse and responded well to chloramphenicol again. Then there was emergence of chloramphenicol resistant typhoid fever. It was a serious threat to health system. Fortunately fluroqunoline group of antibacterials came to the rescue. And most cases can be managed with this antibacterial drug. This being 'bactericidal' drug you do-not have many carriers of typhoid fever. Another drug being ceftriaxone injections is also 'bactericidal' antibiotic. And you do-not have many cases of chronic carrier of typhoid fever. You treat the typhoid carriers with one of the 'bactericidal' drug. But, if you happen to find a person of typhoid fever for 40 years, please do not get surprised. As in biology this can easily happen. ( It is interesting to read the story of 'Typhoid Merry' from USA.)
Why is antibiotics use to treat typhoid fever?
You have not invented new antibiotic from many years. Instead you have misused them to create the resistant bacteria. You have ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin and azithromycin to treat the typhoid. Technically the ciprofloxacin is not an antibiotic. Ciprofloxacin is not obtained from microorganisms. It is a fluroquinolone and is man made, in the laboratory, from modification of nalidixic acid.
