Typhoid Fever

Typhoid fever is an acute fever caused by Salmonella typhi bacteria. Apart from Salmonella typhi, typhoid fever can also be caused by Salmonella paratyphi but much more mild symptoms. Bacteria commonly found in water or food that is spread by people who are infected with the bacteria before.

Typhoid fever at this time we are very often encountered in day life. More than 13 million people infected with the bacteria in the world and 500,000 of them died.

How can someone do a typhoid fever?

Typhoid germs into the body through food or water that we consume. A typhoid patient can contaminate the surrounding water through the feces of typhoid bacteria. when The contaminated water is used to prepare the food then the food will follow contaminated especially food that is not cooked properly.

Not all people with typhoid symptoms invisible, although many of them are infected but do not feel anything. So then this is who they are dangerous because they can infect other people because they do not feel the pain, they are reluctant to see a doctor for treatment. People like this person is known by the name of carrier.

Typhoid germs breed and multiply in the gall bladder and heart to the next entry in the intestine. Terrible, this bacteria is able to survive many days in the water or trash dump that was dry.

How bacteria can cause typhoid disease?

After eating the contaminated food, typhoid germs further into the small intestine to the blood vessel ago. In the blood vessel, typhoid germs carried by white blood cells to the liver, spleen and bone marrow. Bacteria multiply in the next organ organ this return to the blood vessel. When this is the patient will experience symptoms of typhoid fever. Next the bacteria will enter the gall bladder ago lymph network intestine. Here, the bacteria will breed more and more. Then, the bacteria will also penetrate intestinal wall and mixed with dirt. Well, apart from the examination of blood, fever, typhoid can also be ascertained by examination dirt.

What are the symptoms of typhoid fever?

Incubation period of this disease is between one to two weeks, and disease duration can be reached in six weeks. Some of the symptoms experienced by patients include:

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Headache which is extraordinary.
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A decrease in appetite.
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Painful sore on the entire body.
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Fever.
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Weak.
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Diarrhea.

People with typhoid fever may have a fever up to 40 degrees Celsius.

Some patients may experience shortness of breath, pain in the stomach and other inconvenience. If there are no complications, then healing will occur in the week to 3 and 4. About 10% of patients who have expressed a flared up, recover after two to three weeks later. The cause of this recur not be but this generally occurs in patients who receive antibiotic treatment.

How to treat typhoid fever?

Typhoid fever treated with antibiotics that can kill the bacteria Salmonella. Before the widespread use of antibiotics, mortality from this disease reached 20%. Death is generally caused by typhoid, among other complications, lung inflammation, intestinal bleeding, and bowel leakage. With the appropriate antibiotics, mortality can be pressed to about 1 to 2%. Treatment with the fit, the duration of disease also can be pressed to about a week.