Question 1

can typhoid fever cause neurological symptoms such as brain fog, slight memory disturbances, changes in vision, and /or confusion?

Accepted Answer

Typhoid fever: Absolutely. Hallucinations, alterations in sensorium, diminished levels of consciousness and other neurological symptoms occur frequently in typhoid fever. But do not just assume that this is the diagnosis. See a doctor and be fully evaluated. Best wishes.

Question 2

what are tests for typhoid fever?

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Blood culture: The best way to diagnose typhoid (after asking the right questions and clinical suspicion!) is to culture blood, stool, or sometimes even bone marrow. The older "widal test" (demonstrating anti-somatic and anti-flagellar antibodies in blood) is unreliable, but often used in the developing world due to its low cost. There are newer antigen/antibody tests becoming available.

Question 3

how to know if i have typhoid fever?

Accepted Answer

Typhoid: Persons with typhoid fever usually have a sustained fever as high as 103° to 104° F (39° to 40° C). They may also feel weak, or have stomach pains, headache, or loss of appetite. In some cases, 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 Salmonella Typhi.

Question 4

why isn't my typhoid fever going away?

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We can not answer: We can not asnswer your question as we do not know what antibiotics you are taking and if you are hospitalized for it
Typhoid Fever is a serious infectious disease and most of the time treated in the hospital after confirming with blood and stool and other tests and treated with IV Antibiotics under medical supervision
Discuss your case with your doctor and follow up with him/her

Question 5

what is the symptoms of typhoid fever like?

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Fever and belly pain: Typhoid usually presents with progressive fever and abdominal fever, with constipation rather than diarrhea, over a week when altered mental status begins, so-called coma vigil.

Question 6

what are the symptoms of typhoid fever in someone?

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Fever: Which increases step-wise so that at the end of the first week is continuously high, abdominal pain and confusion, so called coma vigil.

Question 7

how to know that your surffing from typhoid fever ?

Accepted Answer

Typhoid: Persons with typhoid fever usually have a sustained fever as high as 103° to 104° F (39° to 40° C). They may also feel weak, or have stomach pains, headache, or loss of appetite. In some cases, 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 Salmonella Typhi.

Question 8

typhoid fever treatment?

Accepted Answer

Typhoid Fever: Typically vaccination prior to leaving to places endemic with this deadly bacteria. Otherwise it depends on the strain. Usually fluoroquinolone antibiotics and supportive therapy unless resistant strain.

Question 9

what is the treatment for typhoid fever?

Accepted Answer

Typhoid: Typhoid, the classic cause for enteric fever, caused by salmonella enterica serotype typhi can be treated with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (bactrim), Ciprofloxacin or ceftriaxone.  Some strains are resistent especially to the first two.

Question 10

a week of typhoid fever can cause  mild hepatomegaly?

Accepted Answer

Of course: I'm more concerned with how you feel, and if there's any reason to think you were allergic to any medications you may have taken for this illness. Sometimes "mild hepatomegaly" merely reflects a new examiner's observation -- the liver's position, shape and even size vary a lot from person to person.

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