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2. Malaria -Typhoid SPECIAL ISSUE
Pappu’s Malaria not cured yaar.
Pappu gets Vivax malaria
pappu gets chloroquine
But pappu not fully Cured yaar.
Chloroquine kills not liver parasites
It kills not gametes.
They die with Primaquine yaar.
Malaria needs 2 queens .
Cloro”queen” & Prima”queen”
That makes Pappu 100 % ok yaar.
Doses Pappu gets Falceparum
malaria yaar.
Primaquine:
Dose:Falceparum 45 mg. in It’s resistant to chloroquine .
adults once
He needs Artesunate +Lumefantrine.
for Vivax: adults: 15 mg. daily
for 14 days. &
Mixed: day one 45 mg.
2 to 14 day : 15 mg. daily. Primaquine for gametes yaar.
Artemether+Lemefantrine
available as Lumether or That makes pappu OK yaar.
comether.
Dose 3.2 mg./kg. artemether Jai Ho pappu jai ho.
daily for 3 days. Hemant Joshi.
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4. OUR AIM: Typhoid Free India:
Hemant & Archana Joshi
English & Hindi translation by Dr. Vaibhav Bhide
we take an oath to make India typhoid free Please read the following information.
in beloved memory of Chhatrapati Shivaji 1] WHO'S recommedation
Maharaj and Bajirao Peshwa. 2] Indian academy of pediatric's advice and
Two great warriors of INDIA died due to guidlines.
typhoid. Popular history analyst Mr.Setu 3] Our experience.HowWe prevented ty-
Madhavrao Pagdi wrote a book on phoid from virar area by giving typhoid
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. He has men- vaccine
tioned that perhaps king Shivaji died due
to typhoid. First Bajirao Peshwa spread his " Governments should give typhoid vac-
empire all over in India. cine
He won all 42 battles, never lost one in through vaccination programme" :WHO's
his life. Popular english analyst and writer recommedation.
Mr.Grand duff condidered Bajirao better Every week WHO publishes 'Weekly
than Napoleon and Alexander. He died Epidemiological Record'. log on
with typhoid at Raver village near Indore 'www.who.int/wer' website.
on the bank of Narmada river. 8th february 2008 issue is on typhoid vac-
Today typhoid is biggest problem in cine. It says.
India. Many people die due to typhoid eve- "Typhoid is a serious illness caused by
ryday. Now painless, cheap vaccine is bacteria salmonella typhi .Itespecially af-
available for typhoid. fects school children age between 5 to 15
Dehli and Goa government give free years of age.
typhoid vaccine to children. This should Every year 2.1 crores of people affects
happen in all other states . Baramati and from typhoid in worldwide. Out of 90%
Nallasopara Muncipal councils in patients find in Asia. 1 to 4% patients died
Maharaqshtra are about to give free ty- in spite of treatment. Every year 2 to 6 lacs
phoid vaccine to their children. people dies.
Everyone suffers from typhoid once. The Many availablemedicines available these
rich and lucky patient fortunately get are not effective and very costly. So, mor-
cured. bidity and mortality rate is very high.
In last 27 years,highest papers were read Two new vaccuines are available now
in IAP conferences and PUBLISHED in name as V.I. vaccine and TY 21 vaccine.
Indian pediatrics on one In India TY21 is vaccines are available.
illness,"TYPHOID". In my 25 years of VI vaccine is painless does not causes
practise. fever.In slum children it helped in saving
Dr.Athvale would say, While admitting a money & life of poor people of Asia.
any fever child always think of typhoid. Children mostly suffer from typhoid.
We can make India typhoid free by Vietnam's study shown that 180 to 494
making & giving typhoid vaccine to all chilkdren get typhoid in every 1 lakh chil-
children . dren of slum area in cities.
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6. Complications can occur in 10% tyophoid IAP'S Advice--
patients. If fever persists for 2 weeks and Give typhoid vaccine to all children
expensive medicines are not available,out of through national vaccination programme.
100, 1 to 4 children dies below 4 years. The Dr. Vijay Yewle,Dr. Kundu and Dr.Nitin
mortality rate is very high in children under 4 Shah wrote a book Enteric Fecer in Children"
years. in 2006. WHO says." if 100 people in 1 lajh
Sometimes typhoid bacilli remain silent people get typhoid,then it is dangerous. In
in the human body after the treatment. India, 622 people get typhoid in 1 lakh
According to WHO's survey, total average population.
expense is rs. 6500 in Kolkata and rs. 41000 Dr. A.Sinha and his collegues researched
in Delhi per patient, and published an article in 'Lancet',popular
Typhoid bacilli are transmitted through medical magazine.They found 980 people get
contaminated food. So, avoid eatingoutside. typhoid in 1 lacs people in Delhi'
The common symptoms are fever,malaise, If fever persists for more than 4 days,do
headache and stomachache. Child may get blood culture .Typhoid causes severe body
diarrhoea. Patient may have fever with ache. 1 to 4% patients die .But 99% children
delerium, cold extremities, ruptured intestines, improve after proper treatment.(Means
haemorrhages and drowsiness, and DEATH typhoid is more serious in adolescents and
In Gukien city in Guanganzhi state of the adults.)
China, all school students and food handlers Bone-marrow examination is better than
were vaccinated with V.I. vaccine between blood culture. Widal test , 1:160 or more
1995 to 2006 60% children got vaccinated. suggests typhoid.
Bedore vaccination average 470 people per If there is resistance to Nalidixic acid,it
10 lakh population got Typhoid.Typhoid was shows resistance to all quinolones including
more in children.610 children out of 10 lakh ciprofloxacin. One can give cefixime 15 to
children got typhoid. 20 miligram per kilo body weight per
daymdivided in 2 doses for 14
After vaccination,typhoid reduced only to days.Azithromycin is also very effective medi-
2 to 45 patients among 10 lakh people. cine.20 mg. daily for 14 days,
Weak child and prolonged illness
In Europe and Australia, typhoid vaccine increases the risk of death.
is given every 3 yearly. 4 Dangerous P's
We should make old killed vaccine in our 1] Pain n the abdomen
country. It is like tetanus vaccine.It causes 2] Pressur..low(hypotension)
fever for 1 day. Paracetamol should be given 3] Proteins low serum proteins
3 tmes in a day. 4] Platelets below 1 lacs
One can Always give fresh blood or
Typhoid is a very big problem in India. platelets. If liver is affected then we gets
typhoid is multi drug resisstant in India. jaundice. It also affects brain, causes
WHO Says. that in such countires it should psychological dicturbance & drowsiness. In
be included in National programme & given severe cases, intestines may rupture, with
free to all. bleeding & death.
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8. Make Our village, state and country suffered from typhoid.. They remained absent
typhoid free for weeks due to theirs illness. So, they got
1] Please give typhiod vaccine to all poor marks.
neighbouring children from your doctors. give typhoid vaccine every 3 yearly to
2] request to the schools to make typhoid every student.
vaccine compulsory before admission. One reputed school from our district went to
3] request to your doctor & medical store the picnic.All students including teacher
to make typhoid vaccine available. were got typhoid after returned to home.
4]Every where nurses gives vaccines. They Lesson- take typhoid vaccine before
should give typhoid vaccine toall children of travelling.
her area.
5] Requst your area leaders to tell govern- Most of the girls from hostel of one
ment to give typhoid vaccine. medical college suffered from typhoid
Please spread this information through simultaneously.
communication,speech, Sms's, emails, articles, Lesson-- The students staying in the hostel
TV,radio and newspapers. should take typhoid vaccine.
6] Write a letter to prime -minister on
postcard and send to Mr.Manmohan Singh, God Sun gave kavachkundala to his son
Prime-minister, office, New-Dehli and request Karna.
for --- Vaccines are todays kavachkundala. Please
1] Free typhoid vaccine to all children . give all vaccines to your children. Start
2] Make Old killed vaccine again. vaccination with typhoid vaccine. Always
How to prevent typhoid?? apply spirit before injecting vaccine. Please
1] All villages and slums should have toilets inject only when spirit gets dry. It does not
proper drainage system. cause pain. Don't give injection on an empty
2] Write a letter to railway minister stomach. That will increases
.Railways have open toilets.They shower complaints.Give snack before & after
human excreta on tracks all over cities & entire vaccination.
country.
3] Don't eat outside home. Typhoid vaccine is best gift for children.
4] should drink clean water. Please give it to your children. Request your
5] get typhoid vaccine. doctor and nursesgive typhoid vaccine for
24 hours.
Most Precious gift to children -- Lets we take an oath to make India Typhoid
Give typhoid vaccine everyone. Make India free in beloved memories of chhatrapati
capital of typhoid free. Please do this patriotic Shivaji Maharaj.
worl like Savarkar,Tilak, Bhagat Singh and How We Controlled Typhoid from Virar in
Gandhiji. 1992
Condition of urban poors is worse We gave vaccines to total 16245 peopke
thanrural poor.Give this information tho them. including 9745 students and 6500 adults.In
the year before vaccination, in Virar 2300
Typhoida affects on student's academic got fever, widal test,suggesting typhoid
performance ,was positive in 525.In the year after vacci-
In Chidambaram, Dr.Shivprakash studied nation1270 people got fever only 217 pa-
on 12,000 students of 11 th standard. He found tients' widal test was positive.
that students who got less marks & failed, had Meaning--VACCINATION reduced
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10. Typhoid reduce by 50% .Had all people
taken vaccine, it would have reduced more. Vaccination How Good?
How immunity developed against Giving vaccine is like appointing one
typhoid vaccine?? security guard. He can not stop 50 thieves.
We did widal test on 220 students before 85% people will not get typhoid after
and after giving typhoid vaccine. 88 % vaccination.If someone gets it will be mild.
students developed immunity against When you get typhoid germs with water
typhoid. This indicates that 88% people will you will get less germs. You will get too
gets benefits from vaccination. many germs with food. Not eating outside
Precautioms.-- for fever and pain home is very important.
Along with vaccine we gave paracetamol Comparison of whole killed (Halfkin) &
medicine3 times in a day to 16000 people. new vaccine
Patients didnt get fever and they attended at Old vaccine is cycle and new vaccine is
their work next day. . scooter.
Necessity India needs both. See table.
We give triple vaccine (diptheria,whooping Govt. spends rs.500 crores on poloio every
cough and tetanus vaccines)to all children year. In this money we can give typhoid
but we find very few cases of these illness. vaccine to all Indian children.
We see typhoid maximum. Give its vaccine.
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How we did this in Virar? DEAR STUDENTS,
With help of all. Typhoid is your killer illness. Save yourself
Nagarpalika helped & paid money for and your friends. You are the new soldiers
vaccines. IMA doctors helped & paid for in this fight aginst the typhoid. Ask
other expenses.MLA Hitendra Thalur took Everybody to give vaccines to all children.
first injection and actively helped. Write a letter to cheif-minister and prime-
Research -- minister. Request them to give typhoic
Mumbai's J.J.Hospital helped. PSM head vaccine free to all children in the national
Dr.Sham Kulkarni personally supervised.20 programme.
J.J.Interns helped. Dr. Bhimrao Jadhao .
wrote thesis on this. See it in J.J.Hospital.
vaccines : Comparison
Whole killed VI
LIke cycle Like motor cycle
Benifit 3 to 5 years 3 years
2nd dose multiplies
benifit of earlier dose? YES NO
Price 50 PAISE 50 rupeees
Fever? YES LIKE tetanus injection no.
age to start 6 months 2 years
*One country had added whole killed vaccine to triple antigen and given
** new VI conjugated vaccine can be gien fron agae of 2 to 3 months.
*** India needs cycle and motor cycle both.
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