Upaya Pengelolaan Demam Tifoid Dengan Pendekatan Pelayanan Dokter Keluarga

Abstract

A 17-month-old female patient was brought by her family to the emergency room at the Lhoksukon Health Center with complaints of weakness for the last 2 days. Weakness was felt to be burdensome since the patient had a fever on the 5th day. Fever is felt up and down throughout the day. The fever is accompanied by chills, sweating, and restlessness. On the first day of fever, the patient was given fever medicine by the patient's mother at home, but the fever did not subside. The patient also experiences nausea and vomiting. Nausea appears sometimes when eating. Vomiting is in the form of food that is eaten but the vomit volume is not much. The patient's appetite also decreases. Primary data were obtained through alloanamnesa, physical examination, supporting examinations, as well as making home visits, filling out family folders, and filling out patient files. The assessment was carried out based on the initial holistic diagnosis, process and end of the visit both quantitatively and qualitatively. Interventions carried out include education about the causes of typhoid fever to their families, education about hygiene and handling of the disease and explaining complications that may arise from the patient's illness so that they can make efforts to prevent and treat it if it recurs.