Typhoid fever is a contagious and known disease since the age of time, a bacterium caused by the Salmonella typhoid, affecting people of all ages. It is transmitted mainly by water and contaminated food, whether by food or drink, or by swimming water. These bacteria are found in the liver, bones, spleen and brain. They are initially in the gallbladder and nest in them until they move to the rest of the body. The disease is widespread in Latin America, India, Africa and less in developed countries of health awareness.
The epidemic has many causes, including:
- Eat fruits and vegetables that are unclean and not washed well.
- Do not wash the hand well after using the toilet, where the bacteria pass from the hands to the mouth after touching toilets contaminated with these bacteria.
- Eat the open and polluted streets.
- Drink contaminated and non-sterile water.
- Touching the faeces of animals infected with the disease, and raising pets in homes and not clean well cause this infection.
- Eat poultry, meat and eggs for animals infected with this disease.
The disease signs and symptoms indicate the incidence of the disease, including:
- High body temperature.
- Feeling sick.
- The incidence of abdominal pain is sometimes severe.
- Anorexia .
- Inflammation of diarrhea.
- The patient may be severely agitated.
- Symptoms of the disease may develop into abdominal swelling, inability to move, and feeling delirious.
In order not to become infected with this disease, we must follow the preventive measures that protect us from infection, by careful personal hygiene, washing hands when using toilets, avoid swimming in public swimming pools and clean away from eating open and contaminated foods.
Those who have the disease should consult the doctor immediately, and be careful to work water compresses to reduce the high temperature, and the use of fluids, which help the body to compensate for the loss of nutrients because of the loss of appetite and diarrhea. Doctors also prescribe antibiotics such as ciprofoxacin and ceftriaxone.
It is worth mentioning that the disease is a vaccine invented and manufactured in America, a single oral dose protects against the incidence of typhoid fever after a one-time infection, which explains why we reduce the incidence of infected in places infected with the change in the change of bad habits.