Effect of honey on somatic (o) and flagellar (h) antibodies titer in typhoid fever patients

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the honey effect on typhoid fever (TF) patients those which their serum samples assayed and were positive to widal test. In this study, (117) cases male and female with age between (9-50) years, during the period from 30/1 to 1/7 at 2009. Kitantigen had been used which produced by (Plasmatec Laboratory Product Ltd) to perform widal test by slide method. The results showed that there were (100) of (117) were positive to widal test. Positive cases were divided to two equal groups. First group were treated by effective antibiotics against salmonella species bacteria that cause TF. While second group were given honey in addition to antibiotics treatment for three weeks. Then, the second test was performed for both groups. The results showed that the percent of patients those treated by antibiotics only and had been response (decreasing in titer of antibodies) were (30%) & (56.3) for both somatic (O) and flagellar (H) antigens, While the cases those not response to treatment were (70%) & (43.7%) for both (O) and (H) antigens. The second groups those were treated by antibiotics in addition to honey. Percent of patients those had been response were (68.7%) & (76.2%) for both (O) and (H) antigens. While the cases those not response were (31.3%) & (23.8%) for both (O) and (H) antigens. From these results, the effect of honey with antibiotics in treatment of typhoid fever patients fever was very clear.