What is typhus?

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Yi Hua is a 12-year-old teenager. His parents are often very busy in business, so they send him to residential school to study. Only on weekends will someone pick him up. Have a fever of the first mock exam. The weekend, when the mother came to pick her up, she found that her daughter had many small white rashes. Her daughter's mental state was also very poor. The child's forehead was accompanied by fever. The mother sent the child to the hospital in time. The doctor said it was due to typhoid fever, which was a little serious, and the child's condition was serious.

What is typhus?

Generally, it only takes 10-14 days for the onset of epidemic typhus. Patients will cause fever, a state of persistent fever, general body temperature is not from 39 degrees down, generally need treatment to three weeks to return to normal. There will be headache, loss of appetite symptoms.

Typhus is a red rash all over the body, initially on the face, feet and hands. Can accompany the disease gradually serious, the whole body will cause a rash, even on the genitals are long, do not use your hands to grasp, will more easily cause infection.

Typhus usually occurs in winter and spring and in cold places, such as northeast China and Xi'an. If there are lice or some parasitic history or after being bitten by rat fleas, the virus will exist in the body, with fever, macular papules and swollen lymph nodes.

matters needing attention

Diet to high calorie, high protein liquid food or semi liquid food, eat more nutritious porridge, soup and so on, you can eat more with carrot, vitamin A has a good immune function.