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Diagnosed With Typhoid, Have Widal Test Report. Can Any Online Doctor Help Me To Read It?
Hi Doctor, I am Raha from Ghana. I was diagnosed with typhoid about two weeks ago and given Ciproflaxin Tablets USP 500mg. I finished taking the drug and went for a Widal test and the results are below: Salmonella Typhi O : 1:80 Salmonella Typhi H : 1:160 What do these results mean. Is there another drug I need to take to get the typhoid out of my system? What values of the widal test is termed normal? Thanks.
Tue, 24 Sep 2013
Hi Raha,
Thanks for writing to health care magic.
I can understand your concern.
The Widal test remains positive for some time after a typhoid fever. So you need not worry about that.
Do you have any fever now? If the fever subsided then do not worry as that will take some time to come back to normal values.
Continue to ask further queries as required.
Hope this helps.
Take care.
Dr Y V Siva Sankara Murty
M.D.(Pediatrics)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Thanks for writing to health care magic.
I can understand your concern.
The Widal test remains positive for some time after a typhoid fever. So you need not worry about that.
Do you have any fever now? If the fever subsided then do not worry as that will take some time to come back to normal values.
Continue to ask further queries as required.
Hope this helps.
Take care.
Dr Y V Siva Sankara Murty
M.D.(Pediatrics)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
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Hi, Thanks for using HCM.
This investigation report suggests that you are normal and no treatment is requirement now if you are feeling good.
Typhi O suggests current infection and Typhi H suggests past one / healing infection. If there is increase in titer or if the values are more than 1:160 then that requires further management. So I advice you to recheck this once again after a week and if the titers increase then you can take other medication.
Hope I answered your question. Feel free to ask me if you have any further queries.
Wish you good health. Take care.
Regards
This investigation report suggests that you are normal and no treatment is requirement now if you are feeling good.
Typhi O suggests current infection and Typhi H suggests past one / healing infection. If there is increase in titer or if the values are more than 1:160 then that requires further management. So I advice you to recheck this once again after a week and if the titers increase then you can take other medication.
Hope I answered your question. Feel free to ask me if you have any further queries.
Wish you good health. Take care.
Regards
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