Dengue fever
The disease has four serotypes, namely DEN 1, DEN 2, DEN 3, and DEN 4, and fever symptoms start from the third day of the bite until the 14th day , And this type of fever is not fully effective treatment so far, so if the disease is not detected early, the patient may lose his life, and spread dengue fever in cities and areas with high population density.
Symptoms of dengue fever
The symptoms of dengue are somewhat similar to flu symptoms:
- Red spots appear on the skin of the infected person on the fifth day of the bite of the mosquito-borne dengue fever infection, and the spots are accompanied by itching.
- Sudden fever, the rise is then low body temperature, followed by another temperature drop rise, the fever lasts from five to seven days.
- A sharp clash haunts the victim.
- Severe pain in the joints and muscles.
- Pain behind my eyes.
- The patient loses his appetite.
Treatment of dengue fever
- Provide adequate fluid for the injured to protect against dehydration, and intravenous fluids can be used.
- If the patient has reached hemorrhagic fever, anti-inflammatory drugs, such as nonsteroidal drugs and aspirin, should be avoided, as they increase bleeding.
- It is possible to use a cat’s claw herb. This herb relieves inflammation, as well as tuna and tuna, and sweet potato juice increases the number of platelets.
- In general, medicine has not yet been able to find drugs to combat this type of virus.
Types of dengue fever
- Small fever: This fever is similar to cold in the beginning, and then to reach the temperature of the patient to 40 degrees Celsius, and this type of dengue fever may cause children convulsions, accompanied by this type of fever headache in the front or behind the eyes, and after two days of Skin rash begins to appear, coinciding with the emergence of skin rash rise in temperature again, and continue the high temperature for several days and then decrease, and called fever at this stage fever bipolar.
- Hemorrhagic fever: This type of dengue fever is very serious, and may cause death to the injured, and the cause of this fever is the recurrent infection of mosquito bites carrying the virus.
Prevention of dengue fever
- Remove everything that is possible to accumulate in it, attracting water to this type of mosquitoes.
- Grease the body with ointments and repellents for mosquitoes, especially in the early morning and at sunset, because the mosquito-borne mosquitoes are active at these times of day.
- Place a delicate grille on the doors and windows, to prevent the entry of these mosquitoes and insects into the home.
- Bed nets are best used when sleeping, especially when sleeping outside the home.