Typhoid: Symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention

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Typhoid: Symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention - Abdominal typhus is an infection of the gut which implies seluru tissues of the body.

The disease is spread from the dirt to the mouth in contaminated food and water, and often occurs in the form of outbreaks or epidemics (population fell ill at the same time).

Among the various infectious diseases that are sometimes called abdominal typhus fever, is one of the most dangerous diseases.

A. Bacteria causing typhoid:

1. Rickettsia typhi

2. Rickettsia prowazekii

B. types of typhoid bacteria depending on which one is causing the infection.

Rickettsia typhi is typhoid fever is common in endemic areas and poor areas unhygienic with cold temperatures. Typhoid is usually called "fever bui". These bacteria spread by cockroaches, flies, and weasels.

Cases of typhoid are common in the southern and southeastern United States. The inkubasinya 2 – 3 weeks. The heaviest is the risk of death.

Rickettsia prowazekii was the typhoid epidemic. This happened to someone who had contracted typhoid, re-activation.

C. Someone who suffered from typhoid blood test results showed:

1. low levels of sodium

2. low levels of albumin

3. the enzyme in the liver increases sharply

4. Place a complaint around the kidneys

5. the resulting very high Antibody

D. complications that occur

1. Pneumonia

2. damage to the central nervous system

3. Renal insufficiency

E. the following signs of illness typhoid:

The first week

1. Originally similar to a cold or influenza.

2. head and Neck Pain

3. Heat up a bit by bit setiapp today to 40 degrees or more.

4. often relatively slow compared to the high nadinya heat.

5. sometimes there is vomiting, or constipation menceret.

The second week

1. high heat, relatively slow pulse

2. you may see pink patches on the body

3. Body chills/shaking

4. Delirious or delirium (sufferers can not think clearly)

5. weak, weight decrease, lack of body fluids.

The third week

If no complications, heat and other signs will disappear slowly.

F. Treatment:

1. get immediate help from a physician or nearest health officer

2. give chloramphenicol for adults: two capsules @ 250 mg 4 times a day. If no, use chloramphenicol or tetracycline ampicilin.

3. Lower the heat with a cool wet cloth with

4. give plenty of fluids; soups, juices, and drinks to restore fluids in the body.

5. Provide nutritious meals, if necessary in the form of liquid.

6. the patient must stay in bed until the heat lost at all

7. If the sufferer to cough up blood or embossed signs of inflammation of the membranes of the stomach, it should immediately be brought to the hospital.

G. abdominal typhoid Prevention:

1. Mengindarkan yourself from dirty things like water and food contamination by human waste. Make sure family latrines are located far from where residents take drinking water

2. Give special attention to the cleanliness of drinking water, especially during floods.

3. the patient should stay in separate rooms to prevent the spread of typhus abdominal. Litter should be burned or buried deep in the hole. People who take care of him must wash their hands immediately afterward.

4. every person who has ever suffered from typhoid had to give extra attention to personal hygiene and should not be working at home or in places of food processing.