If someone has severe symptoms of the disease, or if symptoms get worse in the first day or two after the fever goes away, seek immediate medical care. This could be an indication of DHF, which is a medical emergency. To treat severe cases of dengue fever at a hospital, doctors will give intravenous IV fluids and electrolytes salts to replace those lost through vomiting or diarrhea.
When started early, this is usually enough to effectively treat the disease. In more advanced cases, doctors may have to do a blood transfusion. In all cases of dengue infection, efforts should be made to keep the infected person from being bitten by mosquitoes. This will help prevent the illness from spreading to others.
There's no vaccine to prevent dengue fever. The best protection is to prevent bites by an infected mosquito. Be sure to:. By taking these precautions and keeping your kids away from areas that have a dengue fever epidemic, the risk of contracting dengue fever is small for international travelers. Reviewed by: Steven Dowshen, MD. Larger text size Large text size Regular text size.
Your doctor may advise that you rest and drink plenty of fluids to avoid dehydration from vomiting and high fever. Paracetamol can be taken to bring down fever and reduce joint pains but avoid pain-relievers that can increase bleeding complications, eg. Do note that there are 4 strains of the dengue virus and once you recover from 1, you are unlikely to contract the same strain as your body would have built immunity against it.
However, you may pick up repeated dengue fevers from the other strains. Warning signs may appear as temperature declines 3 — 7 days after symptoms begin. Note that even though your temperature may decline, it does not necessarily mean you are recovering. When warning signs of severe dengue are present, it is imperative to consult a doctor and seek hospitalisation to manage the disease. Dengue haemorrhagic fever DHF is a complication of dengue fever that tends to affect children under 10 years or age or older adults.
DHF starts abruptly with continuous high fever and headache. Often, there are associated respiratory and intestinal symptoms such as sore throat, cough, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Shock occurs after 2 — 6 days if the patient remains untreated, and symptoms progress to a sudden collapse, cool and clammy extremities, a weak pulse, and blueness around the mouth.
In DHF, there is bleeding with easy bruising, red or purple blood spots on the skin, spitting up blood, blood in the stools, bleeding gums and nosebleeds. Patients with DHF must be monitored closely for the 1 st few days since shock may occur or recur unexpectedly. The mortality rate with DHF is significant. With proper treatment, the World Health Organisation estimates a 2. Most deaths occur in children. Infants under the age of 1 are especially at risk. Dengue fever: Symptoms, treatments, and prevention.
Dengue fever. Ministry of Health Singapore. Dengue Fever: Treatment, Symptoms and Transmission. Dengue Fever: Symptoms and Prevention.
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During monsoon, rainwater gets stagnated and thereby becomes breeding ground for dengue, malaria, chikungunya and other mosquitoes that cause a number of monsoon diseases. With the help of mosquito repellant and mosquito nets, people can protect themselves from falling prey to these monsoon diseases. The symptoms for these diseases are high fever, muscle and joint pains, however, people should know that dengue can also occur without fever. The vector-borne disease caused by the bite Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits the virus to human body.
This can lead to shock, internal bleeding, organ failure and even death. Warning signs of severe dengue fever — which is a life-threatening emergency — can develop quickly. The warning signs usually begin the first day or two after your fever goes away, and may include:. Severe dengue fever is a life-threatening medical emergency. Seek immediate medical attention if you've recently visited an area in which dengue fever is known to occur, you have had a fever and you develop any of the warning signs.
Warning signs include severe stomach pain, vomiting, difficulty breathing, or blood in your nose, gums, vomit or stools. If you've been traveling recently and develop a fever and mild symptoms of dengue fever, call your doctor. Dengue fever is caused by any one of four types of dengue viruses.
You can't get dengue fever from being around an infected person. Instead, dengue fever is spread through mosquito bites. The two types of mosquitoes that most often spread the dengue viruses are common both in and around human lodgings.
When a mosquito bites a person infected with a dengue virus, the virus enters the mosquito. Then, when the infected mosquito bites another person, the virus enters that person's bloodstream and causes an infection. After you've recovered from dengue fever, you have long-term immunity to the type of virus that infected you — but not to the other three dengue fever virus types.
This means you can be infected again in the future by one of the other three virus types. Your risk of developing severe dengue fever increases if you get dengue fever a second, third or fourth time. Severe dengue fever can cause internal bleeding and organ damage.
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