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Medical Video: 5 Common signs of Dengue Fever
Entering the transition season with erratic weather makes you worry dengue fever. Because the mosquito Aedes aegypti who carry dengue fever has the ability to fly as far as 100 meters so that the transmission process takes place very quickly.
Besides knowing characteristics of dengue fever mosquitoes along with symptoms of the disease, You also need to know the phase of dengue fever that is commonly experienced when someone is infected with this virus. So, you can be more aware of this disease. Well, what are the phases of dengue fever?
1. Fever phase
The most typical symptom when exposed to dengue fever is high fever. That's why the initial phase of dengue fever is called the fever phase. In this phase, the patient will experience fever suddenly until it reaches 40 degrees Celsius for 2 to 7 days.
The appearance of a high fever in cases of dengue is often accompanied by a reddish face, reddened skin, whole body pain, muscle pain, and headache. However, if the fever lasts for more than 10 days, then the possibility of the fever is not a symptom of dengue fever.
In several other cases, symptoms of throat pain and infection, pain around the eyeball, anorexia, nausea and vomiting were found. These symptoms cause a decrease in the number of white blood cells and platelets which directs the doctor to diagnose dengue fever.
The symptoms of dengue fever make it difficult for sufferers to undergo daily activities, such as being unable to go to school, doing office work, and other routine activities.
To prevent other negative things, people with dengue fever are recommended to multiply drinking water to help lower body temperature and prevent dehydration. Patients must also be monitored because this is vulnerable to entering a critical phase.
2. critical phase
After passing through the fever phase, patients with dengue fever will experience a critical phase. Well, this phase is usually 'tricky' because the sufferer feels healed and can do activities again. Because the critical phase is characterized by a decrease in body temperature to 37 degrees Celsius to normal temperatures.
In fact, if this phase is neglected and does not immediately get treatment, the patient's platelets will continue to decline dramatically and can result in bleeding that is often not realized. Therefore, patients must be quickly handled by the medical team because this critical phase lasts no more than 24-38 hours.
During the transition from the fever phase to the critical phase, the patient enters the highest risk for blood vessel leakage. Early indications of vascular leakage can be seen when people with dengue fever experience continuous vomiting, nosebleeds, enlarged liver organs, or intolerable abdominal pain.
3. The healing phase
When a dengue patient passes the critical phase, the person with dengue fever will again feel a fever. However, this is nothing to worry about. Because, this condition is a healing phase where platelets will slowly rise and return to normal.
Patients will experience a return of body fluids slowly at 48-72 hours afterwards.
Starting to enter the healing phase, the health of patients with dengue fever will gradually improve marked by increased appetite, decreased symptoms of abdominal pain, and improved diuretic function. The patient's white blood cell count will return to normal followed by recovery of platelet counts.
The main key to reducing the likelihood of complications or deaths in patients with dengue fever is by giving intake that can increase platelet count when entering the critical phase. How to? One of them is by consuming guava.
Guava contains trombinol which is able to stimulate trombopoietin more actively, so that it can produce blood platelets which trigger more platelet formation or new blood platelets. Because patients with dengue fever need an easily digestible intake, then guava should be processed into juice first. The water content in the juice is also good for preventing dehydration so that it can speed up the healing of dengue fever.
