Contents:
- Medical Video: Dr Pam Popper: Fevers; Patients Overestimate Benefits & Underestimate Harms of Tests/Treatments
- Actually, is it a fever?
- Fever symptoms you need to watch out for
- 1. Sudden high fever
- 2. Missing fever
- 3. Fever with severe joint pain
Medical Video: Dr Pam Popper: Fevers; Patients Overestimate Benefits & Underestimate Harms of Tests/Treatments
Fever may often occur in many diseases. Starting from mild conditions, such as flu to diseases that really need help and medical care immediately. To prevent it as well as help you distinguish common fever symptoms with symptoms of fever caused by other dangerous conditions. Consider the following review.
Actually, is it a fever?
Fever occurs when the body temperature is higher or not at the normal level as usual. Having a fever, indicates that the body is working actively against inflammation from infection.
The symptoms are usually accompanied by a sweaty body, weakness, headache, and reduced appetite. Usually fever occurs because of flu, but there are many dangerous diseases that also cause this condition to occur.
Ordinary fever usually disappears in a few days, either without or using drugs. However, for fever that occurs due to certain diseases, the doctor must be treated immediately. Possible patients also have to undergo hospitalization.
Fever symptoms you need to watch out for
Not all symptoms of fever are caused by minor illnesses, such as flu. There are symptoms of fever that you need to treat, such as:
1. Sudden high fever
Unlike normal, sudden high fever occurs due to dengue fever (DHF).
The thing that distinguishes dengue fever from ordinary fever is that this fever can reach 40 degrees Celsius. Symptoms of this fever are very high compared to ordinary fever. Dengue fever occurs due to bites from the Aedes Aegypti and Aedes Albocpictus mosquitoes.
Common fever will be accompanied by symptoms of cough and runny nose, while dengue fever is not the case. DHF fever can occur for two or seven days with other symptoms followed, such as:
- severe headache followed by pain in the back of the eye
- Severe and fatigue muscle and joint pain
- Nausea and vomiting
- A skin rash appears, which appears two to five days after the onset of fever
- Mild bleeding (such as a bleeding nose, bleeding gums, or easy bruising)
This condition must get immediate treatment. Because, complications will occur in the lymph and blood vessels, bleeding from the nose and gums, enlarged liver, circulatory system failure or even death.
2. Missing fever
Overview of symptoms of malaria-induced fever, similar to flu. However, malaria fever is usually characterized by cold (shivering) until the body temperature reaches 40 degrees Celsius and sweats.
Symptoms of fever that appear are usually absent (paroximal). Sometimes the patient feels healthy then will have a fever again in a vulnerable time. Depending on the type of parasite that attacks, recurrence of fever can occur around 8 to 10 hours, 48 hours, or 72 hours.
Symptoms of malaria other than paroximal fever are:
- Headache
- Muscle ache
- The body shivered and was cold
- Body sweats
- Nausea and vomiting
If not treated immediately, complications will occur such as changes in urine that become darker due to rupture of a number of red blood cells, kidney failure, anemia, and pulmonary edema.
3. Fever with severe joint pain
This condition is called chikungunya and is caused by the same mosquito bite as dengue fever. Not only common fever but also accompanied by severe joint pain.
Pain that occurs in the joints is very debilitating, usually lasting for several days or weeks as the virus develops in the body. In addition, there are several other symptoms that accompany it, such as:
- Headache
- Nausea and vomiting
- Fatigue
- A painful rash in the joint
Quoted from the World Health Organization, most patients recover completely, but in some cases joint pain can last for several months, or even years. Even though it's rare cases of complications, this disease can attack the eyes, nerves and heart, and complaints of digestive disorders. Serious complications are not common, but in older people, the disease can increase the risk of death.
It is important to understand the various symptoms of fever that occur. Because if it occurs because of a certain disease, getting treatment and treatment from a doctor can improve the quality of life faster and also facilitate the treatment done.
If the symptoms mentioned above appear, immediately do a doctor's examination to get the right diagnosis and treatment.
