Contents:
- Medical Video: 9 Facts You Must Know About Dengue !!!
- What is dengue fever?
- How is the virus dengue spread?
- Where are the mosquitoesAedes Aegypti nesting?
- Dengue fever phase
- Your signs are in a critical phase
- How do you avoid dengue fever bites?
Medical Video: 9 Facts You Must Know About Dengue !!!
What is dengue fever?
As explained in breakdengue.org, dengue fever dengue (DHF) is a fever caused by a mosquito bite Aedes Aegypti. There are four virus serotypes dengue(DENV), namely DENV-1, -2, -3, and -4, and infections of the virus cause various symptoms such as fever, dizziness, pain in the eyeball, muscles, joints, and rashes. People infected with the virus dengue often also experience long-term fatigue. Virus dengue can develop into life-threatening things (severe dengue), resulting in abdominal pain and vomiting, difficulty breathing, and decreased blood platelets which can lead to internal bleeding.
Dengue is commonly found in tropical and sub-tropical regions, especially in urban and semi-urban areas. Until now there is no specific treatment for dengue fever. However, the dengue fever vaccine has been developed by WHO in April 2016. The vaccine serves to prevent the occurrence of the second phase of dengue fever.
How is the virus dengue spread?
Virusdenguespread by mosquito bite infectionsAedesAegypti.The mosquito gets a virus by biting the infected person. Symptoms of bleeding take place after a fever occurs for 3-7 days.High fever lasts 5-6 days (39-40 ̊C), then the fever will drop on the third or fourth day but after that will appear again.
We cannot know which mosquitoes carry the virusdengue. Therefore, we must protect ourselves from all mosquito bites.
Where are the mosquitoesAedes Aegypti nesting?
Mosquitoes nest in rooms, in cupboards, and other dark places. Outside, they live in a cold and dark place. Female mosquitoes lay eggs in water containers that are inside and in the home, school and other areas. The egg will develop into an adult mosquito within 10 days.
Dengue fever phase
There are three stages that people with dengue fever will go through, namely:
- Fever phase, the presence of a virus in the bloodstream which causes high fever. The level of veremia and fever usually closely follows each other. The presence of a virusdengue the highest is three or four days after the first fever appears.
- Critical phase, there are a variety of sudden plasma leaks into the pleural cavity and stomach. The patient shows signs of intravascular narrowing, shock, or heavy bleeding, and must be treated immediately at the hospital.
- Healing phaseplasma leakage stops, along with plasma and fluid reabsorption. Indicators that indicate the entry of the healing phase are the return of appetite, stable vital signs (widening pulse pressure, strong pulse rate), hematocrit levels returning to normal, increased urine and recovery of rashesdengue (The skin sometimes feels itchy and has red spots, with small round islands that do not affect the skin).
Your signs are in a critical phase
The fever will probably disappear within the next 24 hours when there are the following signs:
- New-onset leukopenia = the low number of white blood cells (leukocytes) only has WBC <5,000 cells / mm³ compared to normal leukocytes of 5,000-10,000 WBC / mm³.
- Lymphocytosis= increased lymphocytes (one type of white blood cell that helps the immune system)
- Increased atypical lymphocytes= increase in blue plasma lymphocytes (lymphatic reactive as an immune response that can indicate the presence of a virus and can be observed in peripheral blood smear)
Fever loss indicates that the patient is entering a critical phase. Indicators that state that the patient has entered a critical phase include sudden changes from high temperatures of 38 ° C to normal or below normal temperatures, thrombocytopenia / decreased platelets (.000100,000 cells / mm³) with increased hematocrit (ratio of red blood cells to blood volume) which increases (≥20% increase from baseline), hypoalbuminemia (albumin / protein deficiency) or hypocholesterolemia (cholesterol that exceeds normal levels), pleural effusion (fluid buildup in the chest) or ascites (fluid buildup in the stomach) and signs of shock. The critical phase after / when the fever decreases can be seen with the following signs:
- Abdominal pain
- Vomiting constantly
- Clinical fluid accumulation (pleural effusion orascites)
- Bleeding to the mucous membrane
- Listless and nervous
- Swelling of the liver (± 2cm)
- Increased hematocrit together with decreased platelets
How do you avoid dengue fever bites?
To avoid dengue fever, all we have to do is avoid the bite of the dengue virus-carrying mosquito. What are the steps that can be done?
- Use long-sleeved clothes and cover the body.
- Use lotion mosquito repellent.
- Use a mosquito repellent or electrically indoors during the day.
- Use mosquito nets for babies to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes.
- Make sure your body is always fit, because if the body is less fit, it will be infected faster by mosquito bites.
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