typhoid
Is a serious disease caused by bacteria, which is widespread in developing countries and is rare in developed countries due to high awareness of health, and can be avoided the disease and can be treated with antibiotics.
How Typhoid Infects
The microbe lives only in humans and the patient carries the microbe inside it in the blood or the digestive system. In addition, there are people who claim that they still carry the microbe despite the disappearance of the symptoms of the disease. The patients share with the infected patients that they exit the microbe through the stool.
Infection can be transmitted to you if you eat food or drink that has been circulated by a person who is infected or infected, or if there is contamination of food, drinking water or washing with sewage water. Infection is spread in areas where people are not careful to wash their hands Well, or those where there is contamination of water with sewage and if the microbe enters the body through eating or drinking it proliferate and spread in the blood and show symptoms of the disease.
How to avoid infection
- Avoid unsafe food or drinks.
- Vaccination against the disease before exposure.
- The food must be cooked, cooked, or completely avoided.
- Drinking water: Take mineral water or boil water well before drinking.
- Avoid adding ice to beverages unless the ice is prepared from pre-boiled water.
- Avoid vegetables and raw fruits unless they have an outer shell.
- If you eat fruits with an outer shell you should peel them yourself, taking care to wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water beforehand.
- Avoid eating and drinking from street vendors and street vendors, as it is difficult to keep the cleanliness of such foods on the street.
What are the symptoms of this disease
A continuous temperature rise of 39 to -40 ° C, the patient may feel general weakness and have stomach aches, headaches and loss of appetite. Sometimes a pink rash appears. The only way to check for infection is by taking a stool or blood sample To detect the presence of the microbe.
How to treat the disease
If you have a suspicion that you have the disease, you should go to the doctor as soon as possible. The doctor often describes an antibiotic. Symptoms begin to improve within two or three days. If the patient is not treated, the heat may last for weeks or months and end up with 20% of the It is important to know that even after the disappearance of symptoms, the patient may remain pregnant to the microbial, and therefore the disease may return to him or may be transferred to another person, especially if the patient engaged in the circulation or preparation of food and in this case must be prevented from working to acknowledge The doctor is not a vector of infection.
Therefore, it is important to continue taking the medicine throughout the period determined by the doctor so that the patient feels that his condition is improving, as well should be careful washing hands with soap and water well after using the toilet and avoid preparing food.