How Does Typhoid Affect The Body

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Typhoid has affected around 21.5 million people each year. The digestive system is affected by the typhoid bacteria, which comes to stomach pain, diarrhea, constipation and weight loss. The blood can carry the bacteria to other organs including the lungs, liver, gallbladder and kidneys. Infections in these organs can cause other problems and symptoms, such as pneumonia. The pneumonia infection inflames air sacs in one or both lungs, which could fill with fluid. If your air sacs fill with fluid, air you're breathing in can’t get to your capillaries and that means you can’t breath in or out.
If you think you have typhoid you will experience pain in the abdomen or muscles, you may experience fever, loss of appetite, bloating, constipation, diarrhoea,

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