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How Can Typhoid Be Treated?

Please write your question heremy daughter 7yr old had widal test positive in may.after 15 day medication with cefixime ofloxacin for 15 days agaiin widal was done which came out negative on 3june.from last 2 week she had intermittent fever varying from 99-101. With no abdominal discomfort.on reporting to Dr. She again tested positive for widal..antibiotics not started yet.please suggest proper line of treatment
Tue, 19 Sep 2017
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she should be put on iv antibiotics..because it could be relapse of enteric fever ..may be due to prior incomplete course of antibiotics..better see a physician so that other possibilities of fever could alos be ruled out..
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How Can Typhoid Be Treated?

she should be put on iv antibiotics..because it could be relapse of enteric fever ..may be due to prior incomplete course of antibiotics..better see a physician so that other possibilities of fever could alos be ruled out..