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Is Zathrine And Jiffy Right Medication For Fever Diagnosed As Typhoid In A Child?
My 8 year old son is having fever from last 16 days. Before it was quite high and now it's as low as 99. All blood test came negative but according to dr. My son is suffering from typhoid (clinically proved). He's been having zathrine 500mg and jiffy 400mg from past 9 days.
Fri, 5 Jun 2015
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from my perspective both antibiotics ( zathrine and jiffy) should not be given in uncomplicated proven typhoid fever. zathrine is for resistant typhoid fever means not responding to first line of therapy. oral antibiotics ( zathrine or jiffy not both) treatment should be given minimum 14 days or 5 days after last fever episode which ever is longer.so only jiffy is sufficient total 14 days of treatment to cure typhoid fever.
thank you for asking question on HCM.
from my perspective both antibiotics ( zathrine and jiffy) should not be given in uncomplicated proven typhoid fever. zathrine is for resistant typhoid fever means not responding to first line of therapy. oral antibiotics ( zathrine or jiffy not both) treatment should be given minimum 14 days or 5 days after last fever episode which ever is longer.so only jiffy is sufficient total 14 days of treatment to cure typhoid fever.
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