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Typhoid
Category: Illness or disabilities
Type
Involuntary
Introduction and description
Typhoid is a common worldwide illness, the name of "typhoid" comes from the neuropsychiatric symptoms common to typhoid and typhus (from Greek "stupor").
It is transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person, which contain the bacterium Salmonella enterica, serovar Typhi. Typhoid does not affect animals and therefore transmission is only from human to human. Typhoid can only spread in environments where human feces or urine are able to come into contact with food or drinking water. The bacterium grows best at 37°C / 98.6°F – human body temperature. A person may also become an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever, suffering no symptoms, but capable of infecting others. According to the CDC approximately 5% of people who contract typhoid continue to carry the disease after they recover.
Some of the ways in which the bacteria can contaminate drinking water – source Wikipedia
There are an estimated 16–33 million cases of typhoid annually worldwide, the World Health Organization identifies typhoid as a serious public health problem.
The introduction of vaccines and improvements in public sanitation and hygiene has resulted in declining rates of typhoid fever in developed countries. Antibiotics were introduced in clinical practice in 1942, greatly reducing mortality. Today, the incidence of typhoid fever in developed countries is around 5 cases per 1,000,000 people per year. But typhoid in the rest of the world is still a major problem. An outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2004–05, for example, resulted more than 42,000 cases and 214 deaths.
Symptoms
Typhoid fever is characterized by a slowly progressive fever as high as 40 °C (104 °F), profuse sweating and gastroenteritis. Less commonly, a rash of flat, rose-colored spots may appear. Classically, the course of untreated typhoid fever is divided into four individual stages, each lasting approximately one week.
- In the first week, there is a slowly rising temperature with relative bradycardia, malaise, headache, and cough. A bloody nose (epistaxis) is seen in a quarter of cases and abdominal pain is also possible. There is a decrease in the number of circulating white blood cells.
- In the second week of the infection, the patient lies prostrate with high fever in plateau around 40 °C (104 °F) and bradycardia. The major symptom of the fever is that it usually rises in the afternoon up to the first and second week. Delirium is frequent. Rose spots appear on the lower chest and abdomen in around a third of patients. The abdomen is distended and painful in the right lower quadrant. Diarrhea can occur in this stage. The spleen and liver are enlarged and tender.
- In the third week of typhoid fever, the fever is still very high and oscillates very little over 24 hours. Dehydration ensues and the patient is delirious. By the end of the third week the fever may start to reduce. This carries on into the fourth and final week. A number of complications can occur:
- Intestinal hemorrhage due to bleeding.
- Intestinal perforation in the distal ileum: this is a very serious complication and is frequently fatal.
- Encephalitis
- Neuropsychiatric symptoms.
How it works
Physically via Fever and hyperthermia as well as Dehydration.
But see also Bacterial infection
Related observations
Healing observations
- Antibacterial activity of Thonningia sanguinea against some multi-drug resistant strains of Salmonella enterica 019142
- Blackmon Sanders, Reverend Constantine - Diagnoses Mrs Buchanan's illness 004427
- Dr Duke's list of chemicals and activity for the Shallot 017969
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antisalmonella activity 018398
- Dr Duke’s list of Ethnobotanical use for Leonotis nepetifolia (Lamiaceae) Gros Pompon; Pompon; Grasse Mulatre; Gros Tete; Salbadi; Rumbut tambak-tambak rimba; Molinillo; Cevadille 021425
- Evaluation of antioxidant and antibacterial activities of aqueous, methanolic and alkaloid extracts from Mitragyna speciosa (Rubiaceae family) leaves 017671
- Incidents in My Life - D D Home - Healing a deaf boy 024658
- Mrs Grieve on Acacia (Gum) 020493
- Mrs Grieve on Apples 016642
- Mrs Grieve on Slippery Elm 017215
- The Healing Power of Sleep 026790
Hallucination
- Azithromycin and Zithromax 001136
- Felix Fossato of Turin hears the cry from his sick sister 011347
- Phantasms of the Living - Volume i - The death of Helen Alexander 016219
- Rene Johany Delestre - It is ended 016682
Out of time
- Blackmon Sanders, Reverend Constantine - Remote views 004430
- Blackmon Sanders, Reverend Constantine - Seeing in the dark 004429
- Dr. A. S. Wiltse, a physician of Skiddy, Kansas and his NDE 027825
- Laubscher, B J F - Out of body from typhoid, fever and haemorrhage 023211
- Ogston, Sir Alexander KCVO - Out of body to the asphodel fields 001090
- Typhoid 001091
- Typhoid 001089
In time
- Blackmon Sanders, Reverend Constantine - Diagnoses Mrs Buchanan's illness 004427
- Blackmon Sanders, Reverend Constantine - Finding money 004431
- Blackmon Sanders, Reverend Constantine - Gives a minute description of her father's homestead 004428
- Blackmon Sanders, Reverend Constantine - Remote views 004430
- Blackmon Sanders, Reverend Constantine - Seeing in the dark 004429
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 20 027260
- Drummond-Hay, Sir John - Dreams of his son's illness 016213
- Felix Fossato of Turin hears the cry from his sick sister 011347
- Mona de Vestel 005016
- Phantasms of the Living - Volume i - The death of Helen Alexander 016219
- Possessed by the spirit of a fox 024346
- Rene Johany Delestre - It is ended 016682
Prophecy
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 20 027260
- Osty, Dr Eugene - Supernormal faculties in Man – Presentiments of death at the beginning of sickness 025408
Dying
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 20 027260
- Ogston, Sir Alexander KCVO - Out of body to the asphodel fields 001090
- Osty, Dr Eugene - Supernormal faculties in Man – Presentiments of death at the beginning of sickness 025408
- Phantasms of the Living - Volume i - The death of Helen Alexander 016219
- Rene Johany Delestre - It is ended 016682