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Advised 15 Days Diet, Medication For Typhoid. Broke Diet, Had Typhoid Again. Feel Normal. Continue Diet, Medication?

My name is Vivek from Chennai TamilNadu India . I had typhoid on 20th April to 1st may and i was under medication during those period and got cured completely. But my doc advised me to be on diet for another 10 days so I followed my diet for 15 days on the fifteenth day i broke my diet and had cavin's milkshake and two samosa,s. on the sixteenth day i got my fever back and currently i am suffering from fever. when i went to my doc he said its typhoid repeated . Is it possible so. if so is that again i have start from the begining. Main thing i would like to let you know is for that 15 days i was fully normal(i.e 1st may to 15th may).
Wed, 22 May 2013
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Hi Vivek.
Thanks for asking in Healthcare Magic.

Diet is an important concept in treatment of typhoid. The infection in typhoid first spreads through the intestines causing inflammation of intestines. Even after fever subsides, the inflammation of intestines would take some more time to heal and hence you need to be more careful about what you eat. How long you should be on diet depends on how severe your infection was.

Avoid fried food, spices, junk food and fast food, high fat dairy products, butter, ghee, pies and pasta. Bland diet like bread, rice gruel are ideal during fever and later fruits like banana, mashed potato and tender coconut water can be added to diet. You can slowly improve your diet as per your Dr's suggestion.

Having said that I feel that your relapse may not entirely be due to diet and may be due to feeble immunity, persistent organisms and reinfection.

I hope this is useful to you.
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Advised 15 Days Diet, Medication For Typhoid. Broke Diet, Had Typhoid Again. Feel Normal. Continue Diet, Medication?

Hi Vivek. Thanks for asking in Healthcare Magic. Diet is an important concept in treatment of typhoid. The infection in typhoid first spreads through the intestines causing inflammation of intestines. Even after fever subsides, the inflammation of intestines would take some more time to heal and hence you need to be more careful about what you eat. How long you should be on diet depends on how severe your infection was. Avoid fried food, spices, junk food and fast food, high fat dairy products, butter, ghee, pies and pasta. Bland diet like bread, rice gruel are ideal during fever and later fruits like banana, mashed potato and tender coconut water can be added to diet. You can slowly improve your diet as per your Dr s suggestion. Having said that I feel that your relapse may not entirely be due to diet and may be due to feeble immunity, persistent organisms and reinfection. I hope this is useful to you.