My 8 year old son is having fever from last 16 days. Before it was quite high and now its as low as 99. All blood test came negative but according to dr. My son is suffering from typhoid (clinically proved). Hes been having zathrine 500mg and jiffy 400mg from past 9 days.
Hi thank you for asking question on Chat Doctor. From my perspective both antibiotics (Kathrine and jiffy) should not be given in uncomplicated proven typhoid fever. Zathrine is for resistant typhoid fever means not responding to first line of therapy. Oral antibiotics (Kathrine or jiffy not both) treatment should be given minimum 14 days or 5 days after last fever episode which ever is longer. So only jiffy is sufficient total 14 days of treatment to cure typhoid fever.