What is the need of Typhoid Diet?
Typhoid is a common waterborne disease, especially in the developing countries due to lack of safe drinking water supply and poor personal hygiene among people (due to high prevalence of illiteracy and poverty). Another important cause of transmission of typhoid is the ability of Salmonella (the causative organism of typhoid is Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi) organism to survive even in freezing temperature for long time and survive in ice creams for long duration. Due to the ability the organisms to survive in ice cream and extreme cold they are easily transmitted through ice cream.
In the developed countries typhoid is almost eradicated by provision of safe drinking water to the entire population and by improvement of environmental sanitation. Poor habits of defecation (e.g. open air defecation in many developing countries) are a major cause of high prevalence of typhoid in developing world.
The main objectives of typhoid diet are as follows:
Categories: Diet & Nutrition Facts Tags: Salmonella, Typhoid
Diagnosis of Typhoid Fever
The clinical features of typhoid fever are nonspecific. So diagnosis of typhoid fever should be considered if a traveler returning from developing country with fever, especially from Indian subcontinent, and Latin America or in developing countries any patient with fever. Other diagnosis to be considered in case of fever and international travel are malaria, hepatitis, bacterial enteritis, dengue fever, rickettsial infections, leptospirosis, amebic liver abscesses, and acute HIV infection etc.
A positive blood culture is the only confirmatory test for diagnosis of typhoid fever and other laboratory tests are not diagnostic. There may be non specific laboratory changes like leukopenia and neutropenia in 15% to 25% of the cases of typhoid fever and also moderately elevated liver function tests and muscle enzyme levels.
Categories: Diseases Tags: Polymerase chain reaction, Salmonella
Categories: Diseases Tags: Helicobacter pylori, Salmonella
