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You can eat apple and banana Apple when suffering from typhoid because apple juice is beneficial in typhoid and banana is an ideal food for a typhoid patient.
You advice soft and rather overcooked food to the patient. You are worried about the damage the food may cause to the intestinal ulcers. You do not give raw or rough food to the patient.
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.
Overcooked rice is one of the preferred food in typhoid.
Typhoid fever is mostly transmitted by the asymptomatic carriers. Some times the patient may hide the bacteria in his gall bladder and spreads the bacteria via stool intermittently for life time. Typhoid mostly spread via contaminated food, some times via contaminated water.
The person get infected by eating the contaminated food or at times water. He becomes ill after 5 to 21 days.
Rainy season favors the spread of typhoid fever. There are the houseflies in abundance and they can contaminate the food easily. Water can be contaminated from shallow wells, when the patients go for defecation in open spaces.
20 days
No, it's spread by consumption of food or water that has fecal matter on or in it, from a person infected with typhoid.
People get typhoid mostly by eating contaminated food. Some times by drinking contaminated water.
That depends on whether you're talking about ice cream or hot chocolate.
Patient generally does not like to eat food, when ill. Only the mother can feed the baby at such a critical period. All type of soft and nutritious food is to be offered to the baby. Nothing hard, specially the seeds to be given to the patient. Once the patient recovers from the fever, his appetite dramatically increases. Then you have to withheld many food items. He has got those ulcers in his intestine, waiting to bleed with slight insult. So for next two to three weeks no hard food in given to the patient.