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Suggest Better Treatment For Typhoid Fever Of A 1 Year Old
my son who is 1 years & 7 months is suffering from typhoid & is under medication since last saturday.doctor has advised for medicine TAXIM & vitamin polybion & temp charting.even after 72 hours of medication his fever is not coming down much & peaks at 103-104 degree F.please advise
Mon, 23 Jun 2014
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First confirm whether it is really typhoid fever or something else.
In typhoid dose of taxim is different. It is 20mg/kg/day in two decided doses.in typhoid we normally give two antibiotics. So you can ask doctor to start azithromycin in 20mg/kg/day dose
In typhoid fever sometimes takes 5 days to go inspite of giving correct medicine in right dose.If no response/poor oral intake/irritability then we hospitalise and give injectable medicines
Happy to help you
Best regards
Welcome to the healthcaremagic
First confirm whether it is really typhoid fever or something else.
In typhoid dose of taxim is different. It is 20mg/kg/day in two decided doses.in typhoid we normally give two antibiotics. So you can ask doctor to start azithromycin in 20mg/kg/day dose
In typhoid fever sometimes takes 5 days to go inspite of giving correct medicine in right dose.If no response/poor oral intake/irritability then we hospitalise and give injectable medicines
Happy to help you
Best regards
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