Typhoid & paratyphoid enteric fevers
Typhoid fever is a bacterial infection of the intestinal tract and bloodstrem.
Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers are caused by the bacteria Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi respectively. Typhoid and Paratyphoid germs are passsd in the faeces and urine of the infected people. S typhi is spread through contaminated food, drink or water. If you eat or drink something that is contaminated with the bacteria, the bacteria enter your body, they travels into your intestine, and then into your blood. In the blood they travel to your lymph nodes, gall bladder, liver, spleen, and other parts of the body.
Symptoms
Sign and symptoms are likely to develop gradually often aapearing one to three weeks after exposure to the disease
Fever that starts Low and increases daily possibly reaching high as 104.9f
Headache
Weakness and fatigue, muscle aches
Sweating
Dry cough
Loss of appetite and weight loss
Abdominal pain, extermly swollen
Diarrhoea or constipation
Rash called rose spots which are small red spots on the Abdomen and chest
If do not treat on time, patients become
Delirious
Lie motionless and exhausted with eyes half closed known as typhoid state.
Dignosis
A complete blood count (CBC) will show high number of white blood cells
Blood culture during the first week of fever can show S. Typhi bacteria
Widal test
Elisa urine test & fluorescent antibody study
Platelt count may be Low
Stool culture.
Health problems may develop
Intestine hemorrhage
Intestine perforation
Kidney failure
Peritonitis
Remedies
Ars alb
Baptisia
Bryonia
Nitric acid, Millifolium, Hamamalis, Terebinthina China according to symptoms
Gelsemium
Typhodinium Isopathic Specific. Also suitable after the typhoid when recovery comes to standstill, it brings out the suitable reaction. Vaccinum myrtillus Q for frequnt yellow loose stools, great thirst and chilliness
Wednesday, 4 January 2017
Typhoid and paratyphoid
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