Typhoid fever is a bacterial disease caused by Salmonella typhi bacteria. Symptoms can range from mild to severe, usually, 8-30 days after the germs have entered. The severity of the fever usually increases within a few days. Weakness, abdominal pain, constipation, headache are usually seen. Diarrhoea is not very common. That is not the case. Some people have pink spots on their skin with a rash. Symptoms can last for weeks or months without treatment. Some people can spread the disease by carrying germs without being infected. Typhoid fever can be cured by using antibiotics. The germs enter our body through contaminated food and water.
Symptoms of typhoid:
- The symptoms of this disease will be a fever in the first week, the fever will continue to increase slowly, the fever will be quite high.
- In addition, the elderly may have diarrhoea and children may have diarrhoea, abdominal pain, weakness, and vomiting.
- Usually, there is a cold and cough with viral fever and the viral fever gets better in 1 week. If the fever does not subside within 1 week of taking paracetamol and the above symptoms are present, it may be typhoid.
Experiment:
- If you want to know if you have typhoid fever in the first week, you have to do blood culture and CBC.
- The only way to understand typhoid in the second week is -blood culture.
- Ways to understand in the third week - to check the toilet.
- There is no blood culture in rural areas or in many mooseball areas. In that case, a test is done - Weedal test.
- Typhoid cannot be confirmed by this test, but it is doubtful whether there is typhoid.
- The first week of Vidal Test fever will never be positive.
- If the test titer is up to 1: 160, then it can be normal.
- If the title of the Vidal test is more than 160 and the symptoms of typhoid match, then it can be called typhoid.
- However, the surest test is blood culture and blood culture.
What is the treatment?
- Blood culture is done to check the susceptibility of the germs and give antibiotics.
- If blood culture cannot be done immediately, it is treated with drugs like ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin and azithromycin. However, antibiotics should not be taken without a doctor's advice.
- Even if the fever subsides, the medicine should be continued for at least 14 days.