Contents:
- Medical Video: 8 EVERYDAY HABITS THAT DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH
- What is typhoid disease?
- What are the bad habits that can cause typhoid?
- 1. Snack at random
- 2. Not maintaining food hygiene
- 3. Consuming dirty drinking water
- 4. Use a dirty toilet
- Then, how to prevent typhoid pain?
- Don't underestimate typhus!
Medical Video: 8 EVERYDAY HABITS THAT DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH
Typhoid pain usually develops one to three weeks after the initial infection. If you experience it, you can feel symptoms such as a weak body, fatigue, dizziness, high fever, chills, stomach ache, flatulence, diarrhea, sore throat, and the severity can cause death. Then, what causes types? How to prevent it?
What is typhoid disease?
Tipes or typhoid fever are diseases that can spread through food, water, or transmitted from infected people (through their feces). Tipes are caused by bacteria Salmonella typhi. S. typhi bacteria can also be found in contaminated food or drink, then the bacteria then enter the digestive tract and multiply. This will trigger symptoms of typhoid pain such as high fever, abdominal pain, constipation or diarrhea.
What are the bad habits that can cause typhoid?
As explained above, typhoid is caused by bacteria Salmonella typhi. However, there are some bad habits everyday that can make the bacteria that causes typhus into your body, namely:
1. Snack at random
If you often snack at random and your body's resistance is declining, it can be one of the causes of attacking types. Typhoid-causing bacteria usually live in water contaminated with feces, and can stick to food or drinks that you consume due to snacks at random.
Usually, young children are more susceptible to typhoid fever because their endurance is not as strong as that of an adult or it could be because children are not able to maintain cleanliness when eating.
2. Not maintaining food hygiene
Eating fish or other seafood from water contaminated with feces / urine infected with bacteria that cause typhoid can also make you suffer from typhoid.
Worse yet, even though this is less common, Salmonella typhi bacteria can survive in the urine of infected people.
Again, if infected people touch food without washing their hands properly or after urinating, they can spread the infection to other people who eat contaminated food.
3. Consuming dirty drinking water
Besides food, typhoid can also be infected through drinking water. Without realizing it, human feces or feces can enter contaminating your drinking water. This should also be considered if you like snacking cold drinks. Ice cubes used to cool drinks, can still carry the bacteria that causes typhus.
4. Use a dirty toilet
Salmonella typhi bacteria can still survive even in the feces of an infected person. Well, if you use a toilet that is contaminated with typhoid feces and is not thoroughly cleaned, those of you who are already healthy can also be infected. More, both you are always alert and guarding yourself before and after using the toilet. Therefore it is important to wash your hands after urinating to prevent infection with typhoid.
Then, how to prevent typhoid pain?
In addition to maintaining personal hygiene and not snacking at random, you can still avoid the bacteria that cause typhus with the following:
1. Don't forget to wash your hands
Hand washing is one of the initial precautions to avoid all causes of typhus. Wash hands before eating, when preparing food, and after using the toilet. Easily, you can bring alcohol-based hand sanitizers just in case when water is not available.
2. Avoid consuming drinking water and ice cubes carelessly
Drinking water contaminated with bacteria can be a serious problem. For example, an area that drinks from the same water source contaminated with typhoid bacteria can make the entire population contract the disease.
3. Avoid eating raw fruits and vegetables without washing or cooking first
If you eat vegetables or fruit, make sure you wash it with clean water. Even safer, you can cook or steam food that will be eaten first.
Don't underestimate typhus!
When the symptoms of typhoid have been felt, you should do the right treatment, namely going to the doctor. If the type you have experienced is severe and more serious, the intestine can bleed and become hollow. In the medical world, this condition is referred to as intestinal perforation. Intestinal perforation can cause intestinal contents to leak into the abdominal cavity, causing infection to fatal consequences.
Also protect yourself and your family with health insurance. Health insurance can facilitate access to facilities and infrastructure to get good medical care and services to deal with your and your family's illness.
