What to do about typhoid fever What is typhoid fever?

Updated on healthy 2024-04-14
7 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    What are typhoid and paratyphoid?

    Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever are both intestinal infectious diseases caused by bacteria, and the pathogenic bacteria are typhoid bacillus and paratyphoid bacillus respectively, and cases occur all over the world. In recent years, due to the improvement of sanitation facilities, many areas have been extinct, and most of the cases in Taiwan are imported from abroad.

    What are the symptoms of typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever?

    After typhoid infection, there will be persistent fever, headache, malaise, anorexia, relative slowing of heart rhythm, spleen enlargement, rash and cough on the body, and adults are more common with constipation or diarrhea, lymphoid tissue lesions, if not, it will cause small intestinal bleeding or perforation. Symptoms of paratyphoid fever are milder and mortality is lower.

    How are typhoid and paratyphoid fever transmitted?

    Infection is caused by ingestion of food and drinking water contaminated with feces and urine of sick patients and carriers. Contaminated shellfish, fruits and vegetables are also vectors, and carriers can also contaminate dairy products with their fingers. Flies are also one of the vectors.

    How long is the incubation period for typhoid and paratyphoid?

    The incubation period of typhoid fever varies depending on the number of bacteria infected, but is usually one to three weeks. The incubation period for paratyphoid fever ranges from one to ten days.

    How to prevent typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever?

    1 Wash your hands properly with soap before eating and after using the toilet.

    2 Flushing toilets should be built and feces should be discharged into the sewerage system. Eliminate flies in the toilet. Toilet paper sufficiently to avoid contaminating your fingers with feces.

    3. Tap water should be disinfected perfectly, and drinking water should not be polluted by wastewater, and it should be boiled and sterilized before drinking.

    4 Kill flies with window screens, insecticide sprays or insecticide-containing bait. Frequent removal of garbage and installation of screens in toilets prevent flies from breeding.

    5 Handle and store food with special care, wash hands properly with soap before handling food, and refrigerate food. When eating out, use hot soup.

    6 In the acute phase, you should be hospitalized and isolated** until the test result is negative, and then you can be released from surveillance. Patients' feces, urine, and contaminated utensils need to be disinfected.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    Drink plenty of boiled water, keep warm, and increase physical exercise.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    Typhoid fever is an acute intestinal infection caused by typhoid bacteria.

    Typical clinical features include persistent fever, relative bradypulse, systemic toxicity, roseola, splenomegaly, and leukopenia.

    People who have typhoid fever should be in time**, beware of infection!

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    It is an acute intestinal infectious disease caused by typhoid bacillus. Typhoid fever is an ancient infectious disease, but it still occupies an important position in the current prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. The so-called "typhoid fever" in Chinese medicine books and periodicals refers to many feverish diseases, which belong to the category of "damp temperature" diseases in traditional Chinese medicine, and have different meanings from typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever in modern medicine.

    Typhoid fever is a systemic disease that is not confined to intestinal damage. The basic pathological features of typhoid fever are persistent bacteremia and toxemia, proliferative reactions of the mononuclear phagocytic cell system, and lesions such as hyperplasia, swelling, necrosis and ulcer formation in the lymphoid tissue of the lower ileum are prominent.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    Hello, this typhoid fever is generally caused by cold, and it is related to weather changes without enough clothes, rain, eating too much cold food, etc.

    If the condition is not serious, you can drink some brown sugar ginger soup, with cold and heat clearing granules, and it is okay to pay attention to cold protection and warmth.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    Take a cold shower, turn on the air conditioner, blow the electric fan, and the typhoid fever will come to you right away, but I think you'd better not do it.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    If you catch a cold, don't you get typhoid fever?

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