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Do a person bleeds when he is suffering from typhoid?
Typhoid fever patient can bleed with feces at times. This my require blood transfusion.
Was there a cure for typhoid fever in colonial times?
There was no cure for typhoid fever in colonial times. Nevertheless wise old physician probably used to cure typhoid by good nursing care. There was about 20 % mortality for the typhoid fever without effective antibiotic therapy.
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.
Was there a cure for typhoid fever in colonial times in America?
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What caused typhoid in the Vicorian times?
From tens of thousand years the typhoid fever has been caused by Salmonella typhi. The bacteria has evolved with the mankind.
What is the favorite hide outs for typhoid fever to attack?
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.
Sources of infection of typhoid fever?
The person get infected by eating the contaminated food or at times water. He becomes ill after 5 to 21 days.
What were the victorian diseases and their symptoms?
In Victorian England you could catch Cholera, Typhoid Fever, scarlet fever and smallpox.They had Cholera which is a bad disease that they got from water pumps.They had many dieases such as Cholera, the black death, The barbary plague, bubonic plague you can also look some more up on googleIn the Victorian times adults and children got lots of different types of disease. There were three common diseases that people got. There was Cholera,
How did you know that you have a typhoid?
That is simple question to ask but difficult to answer! You can to serial Widal test for the case of febrile illness. But then Widal test is not very sensitive. The blood culture is more sensitive in first week, but then rarely done. The contributor was an intern and was on round with professor of pediatrics. She pointed to one patient and said that without regards to Widal test, this child has got typhoid fever. It took almost six years before contributor developed that skill. There are few points in typhoid fever. Patient can not tell since when he became ill. So insidious onset is there, at times acute, specially in paratyphoid fever. So the fever comes in what is called as step ladder fashion. Then the temperature does not go above 104 degree Fahrenheit. By the time he gets that much fever, he is profoundly 'Toxic'. He can not walk to bathroom without support of two persons. There is 'Relative bradycardia'. Headache is prominent from the onset. Only other fever in which you get headache is malaria. Then response to treatment is never dramatic. Fever drops step by step over three to five days. Sudden response to therapy go against the diagnosis of typhoid.
What has the author Keith Norman Macdonald written?
Keith Norman Macdonald has written: 'Clinical notes on some of the eccentricities of enteric fever' -- subject(s): Typhoid fever 'In defence of Ossian' 'Macdonald bards from mediaeval times' -- subject(s): Bards and bardism, Scottish Gaelic poetry
How people get typhoid?
People get typhoid mostly by eating contaminated food. Some times by drinking contaminated water.
Who commonly cuaght typhoid in Victorian times?
Londoners
