Take for instance, typhoid fever is a bacteria disease that is mostly gotten from contaminated food or water. This disease happens mainly in an area where water and other source of food are contaminated.
In 2015, about 12.5 million cases of typhoid fever where reported. Among this number of persons, India has the highest number of people that are affected. This bacteria affects virtually in every individual but is more common in children below the age of 10.
Do you know that about 400 cases of typhoid fever are reported every year in the united state and about 6000 thousands of them are battling with this disease while about 149000 death has occurred in the year 2015 due to this disease
One thing about typhoid fever is that, it takes time to leave the system and demands a whole lot of medications to enable it go out of the body.
For that reason, a lot of drugs became resistance to this disease therefore making it difficult to be cured.
Drug resistance due to typhoid fever
Today a lot of persons who live mostly in rural area are consistently suffering from drug resistance due to excessive intake of wrong antibiotics and it's misuse.
Why do I actually say so, have you ever discovered that a disease which a lesser antibiotics would have tackled, you will see some patent drug dealers issuing out a higher antibiotics just for a little typhoid fever.
For that reason, some of this little ones become resistant to our body making it ineffective.
Typhoid fever have caused more harm than good more especially in some of us who are actually coming from under developed countries. This bacteria infection is now becoming resistance in most cases. Understanding ways which we can adopt in minimizing the rate of the spread will be more okay than having to take a lot of antibiotics on regular bases.
How we can reduce the rate of typhoid fever
Typhoid fever can be reduced in so many ways. Firstly we need to adopt this method of washing our hands regularly more especially when we are about taking any edibles fruits.
This is because, most people gets this infection through hand shake and therefore forgets to wash their hands. In this condition, the typhoid can easy get into your system and start to cause harm.
Secondly, knowing the kind of water you take on daily bases we also enable you from getting this disease. If peradventure you happen to find yourself in an area where most waters are polluted. Just make it a habit of boiling any water you might like to drink before taking them.
Diagnosis
Typhoid fever can be diagnose in so many ways like through culture and the use of widal kit for widal test.
Widal kit is a particular kit designed for the analysis of typhoid fever. In this kit we have both the somatic=o, and flagella=H. Also this method is grouped into typhi O and H and parathyphi A, B and C.
This reagent are designed differently to determine the titer level of the typhoid and to know to what extent the typhoid has gotten.
The titre level is always from <20, 40, 80, 160 and 320. Any titre level above 40 should be considered the presence of typhoid fever and should be treated.
Treatment
Typhoid fever can be treated by the use of antibiotics depending on the titre level of the typhoid.
Firstly, a test needs to be conducted in other to determine the titre level of an individual and to know the suitable drugs needed for it.
Typhoid fever of lower titre level demands a lesser drug for it's treatment.
Possible drugs needed for the treatment of typhoid fever includes azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, amoxicillin and ceftriaxone.
Conclusion
Typhoid fever is gradually becoming one of the major cause of drug resistance in our country today. The rate at which we take antibiotics is rapidly turning out to another thing.
Due to this, so many people are no longer responding to drugs because of inadequate drug usage.
The moment we understand how antibiotics are being used, the better for our health. Also let us understand that intake of unwashed food could also result to us coming down with this disease.