Symptoms of typhoid fever

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Typhoid is an infectious disease of digestive tract caused by Salmonella typhi, the incubation period is about 10 days. Although human is the only host of the virus, typhoid bacilli can survive for about 2 weeks in water, reproduce in milk and survive for about 1 month in feces. Typhoid bacilli love low temperature environment, afraid of light, heat, dry, disinfectant. Let's talk about the symptoms of typhoid fever

Symptoms of typhoid fever

In the early stage of the disease. Typhoid onset is slow, mostly with fever, accompanied by general discomfort, fatigue, dry throat, easy cough, sore throat and other symptoms. With the development of the disease, the body temperature gradually rises, which can reach 39 ~ 40 ℃ in a few days. Most patients in the fever first will appear chilly phenomenon, less sweating, and general fever is different.

In 2-3 weeks of onset, typical typhoid symptoms usually appear, such as persistent high fever, digestive system symptoms (loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting), rosette (light red macular papules), etc. in severe cases, nervous system symptoms such as trance, dullness and coma will appear.

Remission period. As the body's resistance to Salmonella typhi increases, the symptoms begin to ease and subside, but we should not take it lightly. We should still pay close attention to the changes of the disease. At this stage, complications such as intestinal bleeding or perforation are prone to occur.

matters needing attention

To prevent typhoid fever, we must pay attention to eating, especially in summer, do not eat raw food, such as some seafood, clam, drunk shrimp and so on, we must pay attention to the safety of diet! If you want to eat it, you must soak it well!