Typhoid fever in children can result in immediate severe symptoms, while it is more gradual in adults.
In adults, for up to three weeks after being infected the illness may not show itself. The first appearing symptoms are steadily rising temperatures, a dry cough, loss of appetite, rashes, headaches, stomachaches. The ill will either have constipation or diarrhea. About a week later, the same symptoms will most likely worsen. The heightened temperature will persist, constipation or diarrhea become severe. Many will lose considerable weight, while the abdomen bloats. Bloating of the abdomen is caused by enlargement of the spleen or liver.The third stage, the infected's conditions will persist, often to the point of deliriousness. At this time, you may also enter what is known to be the typhoid state. The typhoid state is when you're laying completely still, your eyes half-closed in exhaustion, head lolled back. Around this time, life-threatening complication may develop. These complications are the cause of most of the deaths in the 7-14 percent mortality rate. In the fourth week, your fever will slowly decline until it is back to normal in about a week.