Wednesday 18 May 2011

Common Fever...


When the fever is frequent and spread widely such fever is called common fever. The fever differs in different regions: Malarial fever, fever due to presumed viruses and typhoid are common in tropical regions. Symptoms of fever are bodyache, headache and shivering. Bout of shivering followed by sweats and the fever comes down. This entire cycle repeats itself daily or an alternate days.When the season changes, viral fever is accompanied by cold and couh or by transient rash and may be confused with measles. Headache, bodyache and rigors can accompany the fever. Typhoid is a common fever when summer season comes. It due to unhygienic sanitary conditions, drinking unclean water or eating unclean food.The pathogen, Salmonella typhi is responsible for this fever. The symptoms of typhoid fever are loss of appetite, abdomen in the pain, skin rash, constipation and diarrhoea.



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