Typhoid
What is typhoid fever and salmonellosis?
2.200 There Salmonella serotypes. Most strains produce food-borne gastroenteritis. Typhoid or typhoid Salmonella is a type of much more serious treatment and prognosis than the common Salmonella gastroenteritis.
Salmonella gastroenteritis (salmonellosis)
Symptoms appear 12-48 hours after ingestion, nausea, cramps and watery diarrhea. Usually, the disorder is mild and lasts from 1 to 4 days. Treatment includes replacement of fluids and salts are not recommended antibiotics, which prolong the excretion of the microbe.Typhoid fever (typhus)
Definition. Systemic infectious disease caused by Salmonella typhi, is characterized by fever, prostration, abdominal pain and pink skin rash. It is transmitted through food contaminated by carriers insane during preparation, but flies can also spread the bacteria from faeces to food.
How do you get?
Common sources of Salmonella are eggs and products derived from them, unboiled milk and poultry, as well as contaminated water and food, as well as by a poor drainage system.
SYMPTOMS
The incubation period (without symptoms) is 1 to 2 weeks, after which appear gradually fever, headache and joint pain, constipation, abdominal pain and loss of appetite.
The fever remains high (39-40 º C) for another 1 or 2 weeks, and 1 in 10 outbreaks of pink spots appear on the trunk (roseola).
Finally, in evolving lesions in the intestine appears profuse diarrhea with blood. Convalescence can take months.
TREATMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS
1) primary preventive measures: Consumption of clean water, effective sewerage systems, pasteurization of milk, control of food handlers.
2) Get 3 consecutive negative stool cultures at intervals of 1 week of convalescence, to rule out carrier state.
3) Travelers to endemic areas should be precacución with meals and drinks, we recommend a diet of canned food, well cooked, and boil or chlorinate water.