Why you should avoid eating Street Food!

I'm sitting in a hospital room as I write this post. My brother has been diagnosed with Typhoid and has been admitted in the hospital for four days.

We took quite some time to find out the cause of his contacting this disease blaming so many factors. Ultimately, we found the reason for its occurrence.

Approximately two weeks ago, we had attended a concert. We were pretty hungry once it was finished and decided to have bread pakora (local Indian snack) in a nearby stall. There were a lot of flies nearby and the pakoras were kept in the open.

At that moment we didn't bother about any of that as we were quite hungry. We had the oily pakoras and tea.

A few days later, my brother started having headaches but we thought it could be one of those occasional headaches and ignored it.

The next day the headache persisted but a little milder. A few days passed this way and he started feeling a little weak and body was heating up. We thought it would be fever and got him Crocin tablets.

The weakness still persisted after some more days and he started having loose motion. This was the point we started suspecting it could be some disease and visited the doctor.

We got all the check ups done and the result came positive for Typhoid.

Upon googling, we found that the infection is passed on through contaminated food and drinking water.

This was when we started finding if he had consumed something unhygienic. The only time he had something unhygienic were these bread pakoras which were probably infected because of flies sitting on them.

The flies carry Salmonella bacteria on their legs when they sit on stools of people infected with the disease. When they sit on foods, the bacteria is transmitted to the food. When a healthy person consumes it, he catches the disease.

Hence, avoid street food as much as possible because they are exposed to all kinds of dust, pollution and bacteria.

Also, the person who prepares these are often careless about hygiene. They use non filtered water which may already carry many kinds of germs and bacterias. They don't wash their hands before touching the food, and sometimes even add their sweat for added flavour lol :p

Typhoid can be cured with antibiotics. We visited the doctor at the right time. If we had delayed it any further, it could've been fatal. Four days in the hospital and he will be totally fine.

If any of you eat a lot of Street food, be cautious and take action as soon as you spot any symptom.

Writing this post on my phone. Please excuse formatting errors, if any! 😁

Cheers!