i had typhoid with fever, was given antibiotics, now cured after one and half month i had gone for typhoid test the results shows positive, when approch doctor he said the parasite will be there and no need of medicine.If i have fever then he can start treatment? can you please clarify this
Hi, Thanks for posting in Chat Doctor. I understand your concern. Tidal test is used as diagnostic test to detect typhoid. It can give false positive reactions. The rising title indicates disease rather than single positive test. Hence, after recovery from typhoid, some patients will have lifelong positivity to Tidal test, but they are free of disease. For this a repeat test is done after a week and if it shows rising title, then it would be significant and not a single test result. In such cases, it would be ideal to confirm about the disease status by performing blood culture and sensitivity. Hope the information provided would be helpful. All the best.