Typhoid fever is still a public health problem in the world, especially in developing countries with poor sanitation, including Indonesia.\u00a0 The World Health Organization estimates that there are 17 million cases of typhoid fever worldwide with an incidence of 600 thousand deaths each year.<\/p>\n
Typhoid is an infectious disease listed in Law number 6 of 1961 concerning outbreaks. This group of infectious diseases includes diseases that are easily transmitted and can attack many people so that they can cause an outbreak.<\/p>\n
Typhoid fever is an acute small intestine infection caused by Salmonella Typhii (S.typhii) with fever for one week or more accompanied by gastrointestinal disorders and with or without impaired consciousness.<\/p>\n
Salmonella bacteria can live up to several weeks in the wild such as in water, ice, garbage and dust.\u00a0 It can die by heating (at temperature 60C) for 15-20 minutes, pasteurization, boiling and chlorination.<\/p>\n
Typhoid fever can attack when the germs enter through food or drink, resulting in an infection of the digestive tract; in the small intestine.\u00a0 And through blood circulation, germs reach certain organs, especially the liver and spleen.\u00a0 It then multiplies in the liver and spleen, causing pain when touched.\u00a0 The incubation period (shoots) of typhoid fever lasts between 10-14 days.<\/p>\n
Clinical symptoms of typhoid fever:<\/strong><\/p>\n Laboratory results that can be done to support the diagnosis is with widal in which there is an increase in antibody titers O or H.\u00a0 Or it can also be done with Tubex TF to check for antibodies against these germs.\u00a0 Blood culture to check for positive blood culture results for germs<\/p>\n Treatment of typhoid fever is carried out with a management trilogy, which are:<\/strong><\/p>\n Complications<\/strong><\/p>\n Prevention strategies are more directed at the availability of clean water, avoiding contaminated food, personal hygiene, good sanitation, and administering vaccines as needed.<\/p>\n Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n perbidkes.com. Ugm.ac.id, penyakittifus.com, emedicine.medscape.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Typhoid fever is still a public health problem in the world, especially in developing countries with poor sanitation, including Indonesia.\u00a0 The World Health Organization estimates that there are 17 million cases of typhoid fever worldwide with an incidence of 600 thousand deaths each year. Typhoid is an infectious disease listed in Law number 6 of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":900,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[325],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-article"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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