Symptoms of Typhoid

 

Normally the symptoms developed gradually, and exposure to bacteria after 2–3 weeks.

Early Symptoms

  • Continuous high fever
  • Fatigue
  • Headache, nausea
  • Abdominal Pain
  • Body ache
  • Either constipation or diarrhea

Later Symptoms

Such symptoms observe if a person doesn’t get the treatment:

  • The delirious condition developed.
  • Life-threatening conditions developed at this stage.

Typhoid

Typhoid also known as typhoid fever, disease caused by the bacterial infection of Salmonella Typhimurium (S. Typhi). It normally spread via contaminated food and water. When the food or water is already contaminated with the bacteria, intake of such contaminated food infects the healthier person too. After the invasion, the bacteria start to multiply and spread into the blood. Almost 11-20 million people get infected by these bacteria and a large no. of people die every year. Most of the cases are reported in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Typhoid is caused when the person is contaminated with S.typhi. It inflated the small intestine which leads to high fever, abdominal pain, and discomfort. Typhi grow in the intestine of humans, Peyer’s patches, spleen, liver, gall bladder, bone marrow, and blood. With this bacterial infection till date, only hams get infected with this virus, and no known case of animal observe till today. Diagnosis of typhoid is done by culturing and identifying Typhi from the patient blood sample....

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Diagnosis

Samples of blood, stool, and bone marrow are taken from the infected person and run the Widal test....

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Treatment of Typhoid

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