What causes persistent fever when on typhoid treatment?
Patient: My brother is diagonised with typhoid and he is given antibiotics but its not showing much improvement ,he is still getting frequent fever,and the fever is gone only for the period when medicine is in action after that again temparature is rising.I am very tensed.what should i do? Doctor: Hello,I understand your concern.I am Dr. Arun Tank, infectious diseases specialist, answering your query.In my opinion you should do blood and stool culture and sensitivity testing for Salmonella typhi.There is a chance that multi drug resistant salmonella has infected you that's why you are not responding to the treatment.Once you take the treatment as per the report, your fever will all go with treatment.I will be happy to answer your further concern, you can ask me on bit.ly/DrArun. Thank you.Dr Arun TankInfectious diseases specialist.