Typhoid Fever

I had typhoid fever 13 months ago and still haven't fully recovered.

2 months after the infection I had lots of trouble with my stomach still, with chronic diarrhea. But Doctor gave me antibiotics to clean up the intestine and I did a month of biotic reconstruction and supplemental nutrition (Ensure, 1xday), which worked.

Immune system started to normalize after 8 months aprox. Before that, I caught one infection after the other and my Doc told me that it was probably due to typhoid after effects.

Now I still have IBS, which I didn't have before getting sick. I recently started with homeopathic treatment which seems to make a little progress.

Peritonitis is a frequent cause of death from typhoid fever.

Oral typhoid vaccine is advocated at the age of five years.

In Widal test, you measure the antibodies. It takes minimum one week to develop the antibodies of typhoid bacteria.

You can use them. Cefixime for ten days and azithromycin for seven days.

Typhoid fever is very much prevalent in developing countries, where sanitation is poor and personal hygiene is not good.

I think typhoid fever is not a contagious disease like cold and cough. You can get it if salmonella typi enters your bloodstream though food or water.

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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.

You can always wash hairs during any fever. It is good practice to keep yourself clean. Only thing is that you should wash the hairs with hot water. Wipe the hairs immediatlely and cover the body with blanket after wash.

You have many brands for typhoid injections made from surface antigen of typhoid bacteria.

Spinach is to be avoided for three weeks after 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.

requires lots of rest and maintain a good diet

Most probably Mary Mallon had typhoid before she came to America. She probably brought the typhoid from Ireland. She was one of the many asymptomatic carriers of typhoid.

is salmonella typhi a gram negative bacteria or coccobacilli

I read that he contracted typhoid and died. http:/www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Torricelli.html

Yoga does not cure typhoid. Yoga comprises of Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayam, Pratyahar, Dharana, Dhyan and Samadhi. It is something deeper than you think. For example Yama comprizes Satya (truth), ahimsa (not to hurt others without reason) Asteya (not to steal anything) Aparigraha (not to do collection of material things) and Brahmacharya ( not to succumb to lust).

Acute typhoid is very uncommon. But then it is possible to have acute typhoid, when patient gets the loading dose of the bacteria. Usually the fever is paratyphoid fever in such cases.

The are gram negative bacillus shaped bacteria. They are facultative anaerobic bacteria. They ferment the glucose to produce acid and gas. They ferment the sulfur containing amino acids to produce H2S gas. They do not ferment the lactose.

When using the Widal test for typhoid, the AH and BH should be titers of greater or equal than 1:40 and 1:160 respectively for diagnostic purposes.

Yes. Typhoid does not protect you from viral fevers.

Coldness, dullness, sympathy, dedication.

This is probably not dangerous. But then rising titre in febrile illness indicates the typhoid fever. Typhoid fever can not be taken lightly.