Problem: Article: When you are first diagnosed with typhoid fever, your doctor will figure out how far along the disease has progressed. If the disease is diagnosed in its early stages, the common treatment is with antibiotics. He will prescribe your antibiotics, which you will take for one to two weeks. Some strains of the bacteria that cause typhoid fever have become very resistant to some antibiotics. This means that your doctor will do thorough laboratory tests to come up with the best treatment plan for the particular strain you have.  The type of antibiotic you are prescribed will vary depending on where you contracted the strain and if you have had it before. The most common antibiotics prescribed include Ciprofloxacin, Ampicillin, Amoxicillin or azithromycin. You may also be prescribed Cefotaxime or Ceftriaxone. These medications are typically prescribes for 10 to 14 days. While symptoms may clear up within a matter of days, it is of the utmost importance that you finish your antibiotic treatment. If you do not take your antibiotics for the prescribed amount of time, you run a serious risk of having the disease return or passing it to others. Once you have finished your antibiotics, see your doctor again for a follow-up test to make sure that you have gotten rid of the infection. In severe cases, you will need immediate hospital admission. The aggressive symptoms you should look for that point to a severe case of typhoid fever are a swollen stomach, severe diarrhea, a fever of 104 degrees or higher, or persistent vomiting. When in the hospital, you will likely be given the same or similar antibiotic treatment, but it will be administered in injectable form while you are in the hospital.  You should see a doctor immediately if you experience any of these intense symptoms. Fluids and nutrients will also be administered to you through an intravenous drip. Most people greatly improve 3-5 days after being admitted to the hospital. However, you may have to stay in the hospital for a few weeks to recover if your case of severe enough or if there were other complications to your health. If complications arise while you are in the hospital, you may be diagnosed with a severe case of typhoid fever. This means that you have severe complications like internal bleeding or the splitting of your digestive tract. If this happens, your doctor will likely recommend that you have surgery. This is very rare unless you are not being treated with antibiotics.
Summary: Take antibiotics. Take your medications for the prescribed length of time. Get treated in the hospital. Have surgery if necessary.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If you are a chronic worrier, you may find that no matter what you do to distract yourself or relax, specific worries come back again and again. Taking action can help you feel less helpless.  Get a notebook and pen and write down your worries. After you have listed each one, go through and judge each concern as either productive or unproductive. Productive worries are those you can take action against, such as a broken down car. Unproductive worries are those for which you have no control, such as a major hurricane moving into your area. Handle productive worries by immediately brainstorming solutions to overcome them. For example, if your car is broken down, you may need to call and consult with mechanics, buy a part, or go rent a temporary replacement. Unproductive worries are generally those for which there is no obvious or feasible solution. Overcoming such worries requires that you learn to accept uncertainty.  The best way to embrace uncertainty is to recognize that not knowing what’s going to happen does not automatically mean something bad will happen. Uncertainty is not negative, it is neutral. For example, you are meeting with a friend with whom you lost touch. You worry that things will be awkward. Consider this: if this person is your friend, odds are, you had similar worldviews and interests. Those things may continue to connect you even though time and/or distance separated you. Things could be awkward, but they could also go fabulously. What’s more, even if they are awkward at first, they could improve as to two of you warm up to each other. An effective method to reduce the time you spend worrying about something is to schedule a “worry-time”. Also known as stimulus control training, this technique involves you writing down or pushing away worries to attend to at a later time. This way you have more time to spend on positive and productive thoughts and activities.  Decide on a time in the morning or afternoon to attend to your worries. Limit this to a 15 to 30-minute period. During your worry time, either write down or think over all the things that are worrying you right now or at some point during your day. You do not have to problem-solve these worries, but doing so may help you feel more accomplished. Outside of your worry-time, when you notice yourself worrying, push away these concerns by telling yourself you will spend time thinking about them later. Another way to get control over worrying is to challenge anxious self-talk. The first step to challenging anxious thoughts is identifying them. These are thoughts that frighten you or stimulate a fight-or-flight response. After you become aware of these thoughts, test how realistic they are. The goal is to recognize that these thoughts are usually irrational and unrealistic, thereby, reducing their effect on you. Challenge negative or anxious self-talk by asking yourself these questions:  Am I 100% sure that this will happen? Have I mistaken a thought with a fact? What evidence do I have that this is true? What evidence do I have that it is not true? Am I confusing “possibility” with “certainty”? It may be possible, but is it likely?

SUMMARY: Write down and judge your worries. Recognize that uncertainties are unavoidable. Designate a “worry-time”. Put anxious thoughts to the test.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: You do not need to prune the tree since the harvesting process will take care of that. You'll know when the tree is ready for harvesting when the bark turns brown and the leaves grow firm. Choose 4 to 6 straight, healthy-looking stems, then use a fine-toothed saw to cut them down until they are 1.5 to 2.5 inches (3.8 to 6.4 cm) long. Make sure the cuts at 30-degree angles, slanting towards the middle/inside of the tree. It would be even better to do so during the rainy season as the bark will be easier to peel away. Something between 3 and 4 inches (7.6 and 10.2 cm) would be ideal. Use a sharp knife to slice the bark apart lengthwise (from top-to-bottom) on each mini shoot. If the harvested stem was older, you may have to cut a little into the wood. Use your fingers or a knife to pry the bark away from the wood. Once you have the bark peeled off, set it out in a shady area for about 4 to 5 days so that it can dry out. The bark will start to curl up naturally on its own after you peel it. This is your cinnamon stick! like many other spices, cinnamon can last a long time. This means that your original batch of harvested cinnamon should last you until the next harvest. You can harvest 4 to 6 stems every 2 years.  If this is an indoor tree, you can cut the stems shorter if they are growing too long. Left to itself, a cinnamon tree can grow up to 8 feet (2.4 m). Don’t harvest the same stems each time.
Summary:
Wait until the tree is 2 years old before you harvest it. Cut 4 to 6 stems to the ground between late spring and late summer. Cut the shoots into shorter lengths, then score the bark. Peel the bark off of the mini shoots, then set it out to dry. Wait 2 years before harvesting the cinnamon again.