Typhoid,symptoms of typhoid fever

Typhoid 

What is typhoid fever?

Typhoid is a bacterial infection that becomes severe due to contaminated water,

food, and sewage.

It’s more common in the place where the handwash is less frequent.

Typhoid is a bacterial infection that easily spreads through contaminated water and food.

 It causes high fever, abdominal pains headaches, and loss of appetite.

 If it treated on time, most people make recovery otherwise it's life-threatening.

Typhoid fever is not a simple fever but it creates holes in the intestines and affects

many other organs

in the body. Typhoid fever due to the salmonella typhi bacteria.

Salmonella typhimurium is the bacteria that cause typhoid. It remains in the

intestines and the bloodstream of the patient and transmitted from human to

human by direct contact of feces of an infected person.

It can lead to high fever, diarrhea, and vomiting.

Almost 5700 people affected by typhoid in the united states and 75 percent of these

start while

traveling internationally. Annually 21.5 million people contract typhoid.

If typhoid treated early using antibiotics is pretty good otherwise it becomes fatal.

When it treated very

well at early stages then nearly 4 in 100 cases becomes fatal.

It enters the body through the mouth and stays in the intestine for 1 to 3 weeks.

Then it makes way

through the intestine wall to the bloodstream.

It spreads into other tissues and organs. Our immune system works very little against

the salmonella

Typhimurium because bacteria live in the host’s cells, safe from the immune system.

Typhoid is a diagnosis by detecting the presence of S.typhi through stool, urine,

or bone marrow sample.

Symptoms of typhoid

Symptoms usually appear within 6 to 30 days after the exposure of bacteria in the

body. The two main

symptoms of typhoid are fever and rash, fever gradually increases over several days

up to 104

degrees Fahrenheit.

Mostly rash does not appear but its color is rose-like particularly appears in the neck

and abdomen.

Other symptoms that include

1. Weakness
2. Constipation 
3. Headache
4. Abdominal pain

Might be you face diarrhea, vomiting, confusion, but this is not in severe condition.

In severe condition, the bowel becomes perforated, lead to peritonitis, an infection of

the tissue that

lines inside the abdomen.

Another infection include which is paratyphoid, caused by salmonella enterica, has

similar symptoms

like typhoid. But there is little chance to become fatal.

It takes one to two weeks to appear symptoms after the infection. The most common symptoms are.

Weakness

Stomach pain

High fever

Poor appetite

Rash

Fatigue

Confusion

Diarrhea

Constipation

Serious complications are rare but they include intestinal bleeding or the perforations in the intestine. 

It also leads to a life-threatening bloodstream infection called sepsis. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, and severe abdominal pain. 

If an infection is not treated on time then a person may lose weight, develop a swollen or bloated belly, red rash on the lower of the chest, or upper belly. 

Without treatment, it lasts up to one month then it becomes too severe, even life-threatening.

Other complications include.

Pneumonia

Pancreatitis

Kidney infection

Myocarditis

Bladder infection

Endocarditis

Delirium

Paranoid psychosis

When you feel nay symptoms talk to your doctor and also tell him/her about your 

recent tour out of the country because typhoid infected most people in rural areas where there is no sewage and contaminated and water or foods provided.

Some people after recovery become carriers for the bacteria which means that they will not have symptoms, but have a bacteria in their bodies and can pass on to others.