Enteric Fever

What you need to know:

There are no natural remedies or complementary therapies specific to this condition, but alongside conventional medication you can help treat the symptoms by clicking onto the side-effects from which you’re suffering, Try constipation or diarrhoea in the digestive tract section.

The best treatment of all, however, is not to put yourself at risk of this horrible infection in the first place.

When you’re travelling or on holiday - particularly in Africa and Asia:

Don’t eat undercooked meat or raw shellfish
Peel all fruit
Use bottled water only - and don’t have ice cubes in drinks if they’re made with tap water
Don’t eat salads
Beware the hotel buffet, which could have been sitting in the sunshine for hours providing an easy lunch for germ-laden flies
Before you eat in a restaurant, look in the loo. If it’s full of flies where you can see them, imagine what it’s like in the kitchen, where you can’t

Finally, a useful tip when the vomiting and diarrhoea subside is to make sure you regularly eat bio yoghurt. It contains useful bacteria called probiotics, which keep the digestion working efficiently and boost the immune system.

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