What Is Typhoid?
6. Complications
Typhoid can also go on to cause some very serious complications. One of these is a perforated intestine. This means that part of your digestive system has become torn and the contents are able to leak out into the abdominal cavity, which is an extremely serious condition.
Typhoid will also sometimes cause sepsis, which is a very dangerous condition caused by a severe reaction by the immune system to the presence of the infection. Pneumonia is another potential complication as are myocarditis and endocarditis. The patient can also experience kidney and bladder infections, psychiatric problems, and meningitis is another possibility.
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