Typhoid Fever

No. Its water borne.

he has typhoid fever and a girl reads poems to him to make him feel better even though she knows it will cause her to die

Humans are one (ex. Typhoid Mary)

The person get infected by eating the contaminated food or at times water. He becomes ill after 5 to 21 days.

No, typhoid fever is caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi, an obvious relative of the well-known food poisoning disease salmonellosis.

At the end of the book Typhoid Fever, written by Kurt Ray, Frankie learns that he is an excellent fictional writer. The book is 64 pages long and talks about different diseases.

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That is a good question. You have ulcers in your intestine. It takes at least three weeks to heal the same. So minimum three rest is advised to the patient. But the child can not be confined to house, once he becomes alright and you wonder if some other child will strike him in the abdomen and the ulcers will bleed.

Menstrual periods may stop for a while after any severe illness, and typhoid is a severe illness, so there may well be several months afterwards where a woman does not menstruate. As convalescence progresses, all body functions should return to normal, all in good time.

I mean widal test result positive after treatment

You have to maintain the sanitation to the level, that was achieved by our ancestors from western countries by later half of nineteenth century. You have to maintain good personal hygiene. This will go long way to prevent all the diseases, that are transmitted by fecal/oral route including typhoid fever. You do not know how many more centuries, you will take to achieve the same in developing countries.

When you have high grade fever, you will not talk at all. You will not like to move even for bath. Still you can have sponge bath. That is getting cleaned in your bed only. Once you recover from fever, you can have hot bath.

Typhoral (Typh-oral) is oral vaccine for typhoid fever. That is the catchy name for the vaccine. Typherix and biovac typhoid etc are but few brand names of the typhoid vaccines.

Food, which is hard with rough fibres in it should be avoided in typhoid. There is no evidence to support this belief, but then you may be held responsible for not taking proper care. Patients also like to hear from you list of things to be done and list of thing not to be done.

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.

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As is already stated in text books like Harrisons, typhoid fever is caused by a bacteria known as salmonella typhi. This organism is gram negative and motile.

Most importantly the bacteria produce a powerful endotoxin responsible for the clinical manifestations.the endotoxin produce myocarditis as a clinical feature.when the cardiac muscle is inflamed by the toxin, autorythmic cells cannot escape inflammation.because SA node and other related structures determine the pace of the heart, the cause of relative bradycardia is inflammation of the myocardium with the autorythmic cells .

Assefa Gebeyehu Muhie

lecturer in a medical college

Typhoid certainly can have a relationship with the loss of hair. Typhoid however comes with many different symptoms and hair loss is not always a determining factor.

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It takes one week for the vaccine to be effective. You can still protect yourself against Typhoid even without the vaccination. Take precautions with food and drinks while in an effected area: (From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) "Boil it, cook it, peel it, or forget it" If you drink water, buy it bottled or bring it to a rolling boil for 1 minute before you drink it. Bottled carbonated water is safer than uncarbonated water. Ask for drinks without ice unless the ice is made from bottled or boiled water. Avoid popsicles and flavored ices that may have been made with contaminated water. Eat foods that have been thoroughly cooked and that are still hot and steaming. Avoid raw vegetables and fruits that cannot be peeled. Vegetables like lettuce are easily contaminated and are very hard to wash well. When you eat raw fruit or vegetables that can be peeled, peel them yourself. (Wash your hands with soap first.) Do not eat the peelings. Avoid foods and beverages from street vendors. It is difficult for food to be kept clean on the street, and many travelers get sick from food bought from street vendors.

Injection ceftriaxone is most commonly used via intravenous route only.

Fever rising every day as the disease progresses

If typhoid fever is contracted then you must act quickly as it can be fatal. It is a very contagious bacterial infection, caused by Salmonella Typhi bacteria which is very similar to the salmonella bacteria that causes food poisoning.

An infected person can pass the bacteria out of the body in both their urine and bowel movements, and so if good hand washing techniques are not used bacteria can be easily be passed by direct contact and by eating food prepared by the infected person.

Take antibiotics as prescribed by medic.

Symptoms will include severe headaches,fever,constipation or diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain.rash,dry cough.

No. You do not get gastroenteritis from typhoid vaccination.