Dengue Fever Mosquito-borne disease . These viruses are related to the viruses that cause West Nile infection and yellow fever . Dengue fever occur worldwide . • The Indian subcontinent • Southeast Asia • Southern China • Taiwan • The Pacific Islands • The Caribbean (except Cuba and the Cayman Islands) • Mexico • Africa • Central and South America (except Chile, Paraguay, and Argentina) • • Symptoms of Dengue Fever • Sudden, high fever • Severe headaches • Pain behind the eyes • Severe joint and muscle pain • Nausea • Vomiting • Skin rash, which appears three to four days after the onset of fever • Mild bleeding (such a nose bleed, bleeding gums, or easy bruising) • Sometimes symptoms are mild and can be mistaken for those of the flu or anotherviral infection. • These include dengue hemorrhagic fever, a rare complication characterized by high fever, damage to lymph and blood vessels, bleeding from the nose and gums, enlargement of the liver, and failure of the circulatory system. The symptoms may progress to massive bleeding, shock, and death. This is called dengue shock syndrome (DSS). Diagnosing Dengue Fever:- low platelet cells,TLC is low, SOME TIMES serum sodium and potassium is disturbed in shock syndrome. Dengue test card method is +ve. • Treatment :- no specific treatment. • Take plenty of fluid either oral or iv. Take fruits like kivi,lemon juices,orange,pomegranut. Take 2 tsp juice of fresh cells papaya leaves 2 times a day. • Take only tab paracitamol 500mg in fever. no nimusulide ,no disprine(asprine),no to ibuprofen. • No antibiotics are required, purely a symptomatic treatment. • But if platelets are below 40000. Then advised an to get admitted to sm good hospital.SOME WHERE STEROIDS ARE ALSO HELPFUL. & THERE IS NO NEED OF VERY HEAVY ANTIBIOTICS FOR THE TREATMENT AS IT WILL LOWER THE PLATELET CELLS. PLS SHARE IN THE FAVOUR OF PUBLIC INTEREST. “RD PTK”
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 06:21:22 +0000
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