Typhoid is a serious disease. It is affected by salmonella typhi bacteria.
Typhoid causes a high fever, weakness, stomach pain, fatigue, headache, loss of appetite and rashes. Typhoid vaccine can prevent typhoid. There are two type of typhoid vaccine. One is an inactivated vaccine gotten as a shot, reduced vaccine which is taken orally. This vaccine should not be given to children younger than 2 years of age. Typhoid vaccine can be given along with other vaccine using separate syringe and separate site.
Typhoid is an endemic disease which can approximately affect any age group. However, more than 10 percent of these cases are found in infants of less than a year and the school going children and youngsters are most likely to be affected by this disease.
Studies suggest that India registers over 5 million cases of typhoid every year which promotes justifies the need of administering the typhoid vaccine. New typhoid vaccination is given as a single dose injection after 2 years of age and then in every 3 years a booster is given. For a child over 6 years, an oral capsule as well, which is given every alternating day for 3 doses. For a complete vaccination, this oral typhoid vaccination needs to be taken in every 3 years.
All vaccines could cause a serious problem, such as a severe allergic reaction. Serious problems from Typhoid vaccine are very rare. Side effects are very mild and are skilled in less than 10 percent of the cases. Basic side effects of the typhoid vaccine will create pain, swelling, and redness, tenderness which do not continue more than a day and are easily countered with a paracetamol tablet. Infrequently do we witness the systemic side effects of fever which again do not last more than a day and are easily controlled by a paracetamol.
Typhoid Vaccine should be controlled to all the food handlers, person traveling to the endemic areas, persons who eat outside open food quite often. It should also be given to the people who have smarted from typhoid since this disease is known to occur again. In these cases, the typhoid vaccination is given after 4 weeks of complete recovery from typhoid fever.
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