Typhoid fever
Disease information
Typhoid fever
It is an
intestinal
infectious
disease
, it burdens and acute that
almost
constitutes
a
severe
problem
of public
health
in everybody, although its incidence
has
diminished in countries with better levels of hygiene and environmental cleaning.
It is caused by
a
called bacterium
Salmonella
Typhi of which the human being is the only carrier.
The
Salmonella
typhi is
a
bacterium that transmits by means of contaminated foods or water with fecal matter and tinkles of carrying people. He is resistant to low temperatures which allows him to
transmit
through foods conserved to low temperatures like milk or the ice cream.
The fecal matter of infected people contains great amount of microorganisms that can contaminate the water and foods, those that, as well,
infect
other susceptible people making of this
disease
a
very dangerous circle when there are no suitable conditions of hygiene or when black waters are used to water the cultures.
When the
bacteria
enter the organism, by means of foods or contaminated water, they begin to multiply in the thin
intestine
between the 24 and 72 hours of I
infect
and of there they happen to the sanguineous torrent affecting many of the organs the body.
Although most of the
bacteria
they are destroyed by the immunological
system
, those that are alive are continued reproducing causing serious damages in the
biliary
vesicle and its conduits, from where they can return to the
intestine
by means of the bile, reason why cause
recurrent
infections
.
The evolution of the tifoidea fever is variable and in many cases, it can present / display one slight improvement before returning one or two later weeks.
When it is not taken care of suitably and opportunely, mortal complications like bled or
intestinal
perforation, pulmonía or
hepatitis
C
can be presented / displayed.
Many tourists when eating in places with little hygiene or taking contaminated water usually contract the
disease
, mainly when they go to places with little sanitary control.
IMPORTANT the content of this note is informative and it does not replace the medical diagnosis, reason why we do not become people in
charge
on its use.
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