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Typhoid Fever

Two basic actions can protect you from typhoid fever: Avoid risky foods and drinks and get vaccinated against typhoid fever. Watching what you eat and drink when you travel is as important as being vaccinated. This is because the vaccines are not completely effective. The food is not always handled the correct way, and there are huge risks when you don't watch what you eat when you travel internationally.

Typhoid fever is treated with antibiotics which kill the Salmonella bacteria. The infected person will show improvments 1-2 days after antibiotics and will usually fully recover after about ten days. Several antibiotics are effective for the treatment of typhoid fever. There are many different types of antibiotics to be used because there are different locations that the disease can be found. It depends on the location of the disease.

Salmonella enterica typhi (Salmonella typhi), is aparasite that has no known natural reservoir outside of humans. S. typhi is a multi-organ pathogen that inhabits the lympathic tissues of the small intestine, liver, spleen, and bloodstream of infected humans. Scientists have not found it in animals and its generally most common developing countries with poor sanitary systems and lack of antibiotics.

The Sypmptoms of Typhoid Fever are as follows: people with typhoid fever usually have a sustained fever as high as 103 to 104 F. They may also feel weak, or have stomach pains, headache, or loss of appetite. Somtimes, patients have a rash of flat, rose-colored spots. The only way to know for sure if an illness is typhoid fever is to have samples of stool or blood tested for the presence of S. Typhi .

Typhoid fever is a life-threatening illness caused by the bacterium Salmonella Typhi that ocurs in the intestinal tract and occasionaly the bloodstream. Most people aqure the disease while traveling internationally, but it is still in the United States as well.

People with typhoid fever carry the bacteria in their bloodstream and intestinal tract. Both infected and non-infected people shed Salmonella Typhi in their feces. You can get typhoid fever if you eat food or drink beverages that have been handled by a person who is shedding S. Typhi or if sewage contaminated with S. Typhi bacteria gets into the water you use for drinking or washing food. That is why typhoid fever is more common in third world countries because they do not wash their hands as much and they have a higher risk of attaining the disease.