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Case Study on
TYPHOID FEVER
Station Unit (QMHCH)
Prepared by:
III-A Group A2
Prepared to:
Mr. DANILO CASTILLO
Clinical Instructor
BACKGROUND
People are typically infected with S typhi and S paratyphi through food and
beverages contaminated by a chronic stool carrier. Less commonly, carriers may shed the
bacteria in urine. Individuals may also be infected by drinking sewage-contaminated
water or by eating contaminated shellfish or faultily canned meat.
Salmonella is a genus in the family Enterobacteriaceae that has more than 2300
serotypes previously described in the Kauffman-White schema. Salmonellae are gram-
negative, flagellate, nonsporulating, facultative anaerobic bacilli that ferment glucose,
reduce nitrate to nitrite, and synthesize peritrichous flagella when motile. All but S typhi
produce gas upon sugar fermentation.
Salmonellae are grouped based on the somatic O antigen and further divided into
serotypes based on flagellar H and surface virulence (Vi) antigens. In particular, S typhi,
the cause of typhoid fever, has O and H antigens, an envelope (K) antigen, and a
lipopolysaccharide macromolecular complex called endotoxin that forms the outer
portion of the cell wall. S typhi, S paratyphi C, and Salmonella Dublinare the only
Salmonella serotypes that carry Vi antigen. Based on DNA studies, all salmonellae are
now considered one of two species: Salmonella enterica (formerly called Salmonella
choleraesuis) and Salmonella bongori. S enterica has 6 subspecies (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IV,
VI); S bongori has one (V). S typhi and S paratyphi are S enterica I subspecies, serotypes
typhi and paratyphi
DEFINITION
GENERAL OBJECTIVES:
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
c. To determine the proper nursing interventions and proper treatment for the
disease.
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Myra Levine
She advocated that nursing is a human interaction and put forth 4 conservation
principles of nursing which are concerned with the unity and integrity of the individual.
1. Conservation Of Energy
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Conservation of energy
Conservation of Conservation of
Personal integrity ADULT Structural Integrity
Conservation of
Social Integrity
NURSING ASSESSMENT
PATIENT’S PROFILE
Sex: Female
Nationality: Filipino
Chief Complaint
During my shift. I interviewed my patient and report that she don’t have
Two days prior to admission the patient experienced high grade fever, weakness,
discomfort, easy fatigability, severe headache vomiting due to these condition she
PSYCHOSOCIAL HISTORY
Mrs. E.R has good relationship with her family and friends. She used to go out
with her friends, watch movie, shopping, roam at the mall, eat together and chat. She
likes going out after work and meet her friends frequently. She work 8 hours a day and
able to have good working relationship with her co-workers and her boss as well. When
she is in high school she was voted as the class PRO because she can interact with
different kinds of people and when she stepped on college she was again voted as PRO.
During my shift I noticed that she used to talk a lot with her friends through her cell
phone.
PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT
Mc CAIN 13 Areas
I. SOCIAL STATUS
V. BODY TEMPERATURE
The patient is mobile; she can move her upper and lower
extremities in moderation. Cannot tolerate prolong, lengthy and
intense activities. Can walk at slower pace.
IX NUTRITIONAL STATUS
X. ELIMINATION STATUS
XI. REPRODUCTION
The patient has 2 children, the youngest is 19 years old and the
eldest is 21. She was married when he was 22 years of age and blessed her
having a child right away.
Before Hospitalization
During Hospitalization
GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
GI TRACT
Your gastrointestinal, or "GI" tract, runs from your mouth all the way to your
anus. It is essentially a very long and windy tube through which food is broken apart,
digested, and the nutrients absorbed into your system. To get a good understanding of
the process which turns your lunch into a BM (Bowel Movement), lets follow the course
of a turkey sandwich with mayo and lettuce through your GI tract.
You start off by taking a bite out of the sandwich and your teeth chew it up.
Saliva (water and enzymes) from your salivary glands (parotid, sublingual, and sub
maxillary) moistens the food and begin to digest the starch in the bread. A chewed up
ball of sandwich (bolus) in your mouth then is swallowed and travels down your
ESOPHAGUS. The ESOPHAGUS is a muscular tube about 22-30 cm long that passes
through the middle of your chest, through your diaphragm, and attaches to
your STOMACH. A SPHINCTER - a muscle that works like the drawstring of a purse -
relaxes to let the food into your stomach, and then tightens to keep food from going back
up the esophagus. Your stomach makes hydrochloric acid and enzymes which break
down the protein - in this case, the turkey. If the sphincter isn't working just right, one
gets the acidic stomach contents refluxing back into the esophagus. This is Gastro-
Esophageal Reflux Disease, or GERD. This is also known as heartburn. The stomach is
very muscular and also acts to grind up the food by squeezing and relaxing. Okay, our
turkey sandwich is now essentially mincemeat. What next?
Our chewed-up sandwich now enters the DUODENUM. The LIVER makes bile,
which is green and helps the digestion of fats. Bile is stored in the GALL BLADDER,
and conveniently squirted into the DUODENUM when food enters. PANCREATIC juice
also enters the duodenum. The PANCREAS makes strong enzymes which help break
down the fats, carbohydrates, and proteins in the mayonnaise, bread, and turkey,
respectively. This is where most of our sandwich is fully broken down! The pancreatic
juice also contains bicarbonate, which neutralizes the strong hydrochloric acid the
stomach has contributed to the mixture.
The tail end of the DUODENUM, the JEJUNUM and the ILEUM absorb the
nutrients from the broken down food. They also reabsorb water from the food mixture,
and from all the saliva and other secretions that were used to break down the food. The
small intestine also contains helpful bacteria which aid the digestion of certain vitamins.
It may take 2-4 hours for food to pass from one end of the small intestine to the other
PATHOPHYSILOGY/SYMPAHTOLOGY
Predisposing Factor:
- Contaminated water, food or drink.
Lymph flow
Thorasic duct
Blood stream
Bacteremia- secondary to the infection of liver, spleen bone marrow and lymph nodes
In the liver and kidneys, the focal necrosis of parecheymal cells at the site colonization
lyphoid tissue hypertrophy abd hyperplasia.
THE DO’s
THE DON’Ts
PROGNOSIS
DISCHARGE PLANNING
Prevention:
1. Isolation of patients
2. Care of exposed persons
3. Prevention
-Typhoid vaccine, 1 subcutaneously injection followed by 2nd injection $
or more weeks later; booster injection every 3 years for selected individuals.
- Vaccination should be under taken in individuals with risk of exposure
- Immunization- reduces the risk active disease.
4. Maintain Environmental Hygiene and Public Health Measures- are important
in the prevention of the disease.
a. Protect and purify water supplies.
b. Employs sanitary waste disposal techniques.
c. Pasteurize milk and dairy products; refrigerate while transporting.
d. Avoid eating fresh, uncooked vegetable and unpeel fruits (in endemic
areas) that have not been washed in iodinated or chlorinated water.
e. Ensure that food handlers use hand washing facilities.
5. The patient must followed with routine stool culture after recovery detect the
development of the carrier state- approximately 2%-5% of typhoid patients
become permanent carriers, harboring the organism and excreting it their urine
and stools.
a. carriers may be given ampicillin or amoxicillin to attempt to abolish
carrier state ( There is evidence that treating certain patients with salmonella in
their stools may prolong the carrier state)
b. Positive chronic carrier state – documented evidence of S. typhi in stool
or urine for 1 year or more.
c. Carriers must not become food or milk handlers.
HEALTH TEACHINGS
NURSING INTERVENTIONS:
A. Hematology Test
Color Amber
Specific gravity 1.005-1.030
pH 5.0-8.0
Glucose (+)
Sodium 10-40
Potasiium < 8 mEq/l
Chloride < 8 mEq/l
Protein Negative –trace
Osmolarity 500-800