Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-07-31 | Page 6 | Daily Health Service

Daily Health S Service Tice I I Symptoms of oj Typhoid Are Ae Headaches Pains Fever I r Editors Editor's not This note This is the second of C three throe articles jon on typhoid fever 0 o By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Typhoid fever follows a long and serious course once a person peron becomes infected After a person erson gets the germs In Ins his bod body from three to 21 days elapse known as the incubation period durin during during dur dur- in ing which the germs develop and liberate liberate lib lib- lib lib- erate crate their poisons The average length of time is ten and a il half haIr days The condition begins with the usual symptoms of infection such as headache headache head held ache pains in ih the body generally a feeling of exhaustion and loss of appetite ap ap- ap petite petitt Sometimes there arc are chills Quite frequently there is nosebleed nosebleed nose nose- bleed and almost invariably there is either constipation or diarrhea 0 e 4 As the disease goes on the person becomes becomes' Becomes sicker and sicker develop 1 ing occasionally not only a high fever with a stepladder rise but also occasionally occasionally occa occa- severe chills There is a 3 tendency tendency tendency ten ten- dency for involvement of oC the blood vessels and the formation of clots Rose spots appear on the skin kin at the end of the first week or at the beginning be be- inning ginning of the second week In addition to the loss of ot appetite there is a tendency to the formation of gas with bloating of ot the bod body and sometimes b because of ot the ulcers in inthe inthe inthe the bowels and the bloating sudden severe hemorrhages from the bowel Sometimes the infection and the poisoning affect the nervous system so that there is delirium and even the appearance of mental disturbance disturbance disturbance disturb disturb- ance during the cour course c of ot the dis dis- dis- dis ease O 0 a aThe The physician who examines a pa patient tient with typhoid fever makes his diagnosis from the he his history r of oC the c case c cand and from the of the symptoms and also by careful studies of the thc blood It is possible to examine exam exam- ine Inc specimens of the blood and to determine determine de termine by the use of a test called the test after the Frenchman who discovered it whether or not the condition is quite certainly typhoid fever Any serious complications such as hemorrhage perforation on of the bowel and changes in the heart action and andin andIn andIn in the nervous system demand prompt and careful attention b by a physician NEXT The treatment of typhoid fever rever