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More typhoid cases land in hospitals

About 70% of city residents suffering from it are not responding to oral medication and have had to be hospitalised.

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Come the time of indulgence and typhoid rears its ugly head. This festival season is no different. Worse, about 70% of city residents suffering from it are not responding to oral medication and have had to be hospitalised.

Dr Pratit Samdhani, consulting physician at the Jaslok Hospital, said, “Of the typhoid cases treated in the last few months, 70%-80% have shown high resistance towards drugs from the quinoline family that are given orally. So, many had to be hospitalised for intravenous treatment.”

Dr Anil Ballani, consulting physician at the Lilavati Hospital, agreed. “The severity of typhoid has increased of late. We have to hospitalise patients because they are not responding to oral drugs. These are culture-positive typhoid cases caused by the salmonella bug. Some take more than five days of hospitalisation and most of them initially don’t respond to even IV antibiotic treatment. “

Dr Khusrav Bhajan, intensivist of the PD Hinduja Hospital, said the trend has been consistent across the city. “In most of these cases, the fever does not subside for the first 10 days.”

Over 100 people sought admission in several hospitals for typhoid this month but private doctors say the “numbers are under-reported”.

Doctors’ orders: keep a watch on what you dig your teeth into. Dr ND Moulick, head of the Sion Hospital, said, “People need to maintain levels of hygiene. Eat healthy food. It is wise to stay off street food. Eating contaminated food can lead to diarrhoea, vomiting, gastroenteritis and jaundice.”

There has also been a rise in the number of cases of gastroenteritis and viral fever in the city following the receding of the monsoon.

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