Dengue Fever

Dengue Fever is a disease caused by the dengue virus that enters the human bloods stream through the bite of a female mosquito Aedes aegypti mosquitoes suck bloods.

Scientists say that the females mosquito Aedes aegypti need such off substances in human blood in relation to the process of maturation of their eggs.

The mosquito Aedes aegypti with special colour patterns likes zebra colored white streaks are frequently bite humans in the morning until noon. This is the reason why many childrens while playing or going to school to become vulnerable to mosquito bites vector (virus) is dengue fever. Dengue virus is divided into four types of strains that dengue type 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Dengue virus causes a disturbance in the blood vessels of the capillary and the cell-platelet clots can cause bleeding and can even lead to death.

The disease dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a regular epidemic (pandemic) and a health problem in many parts of Indonesia as a tropical country . DHF is also referred to as a disease of the tropics ( tropic Infektion )

This happens when the seasons change from rainy season to dry season or otherwise. The formation of a pool of water in various media is a fun thing for mosquitoes to lay their eggs.

The mosquito Aedes aegypti lay their eggs in stagnant water much like the leaves, tin cans, old tires and even a bath birdbath even our pets.

Symptoms of dengue disease

Symptoms of dengue disease is not typical or specific and often ambiguous or biased diagnoses occur with other symptoms of infectious diseases such as tifoid fever .

Typical symptoms such as fever, headache, muscle pain, joint pain and even nausea and vomiting. As a result, until recently often misdiagnosed.

We must be vigilant and recognize the symptoms of dengue fever, if necessary, should be strengthened by the results of the laboratory to test the patient's blood.

Symptoms of Dengue Fever

• Sudden high heat for 2-7 days,
• Body appears limp body temperature between 38ºC to 40ºC or more,
• Red spots appear on the skin surface that does not disappear when the skin stretched (not always),
• Pain in muscles and joints,
• Sometimes bleeding in the nose (nosebleeds),
• Maybe there is vomiting blood or dysentery.

If not promptly treated can become more severe and can be fatal,

• Patients will be restless,
• Cold extremities of the hands and feet (cold),
• Sweating,
• Arising bleeding from the mucous membrane of the stomach mucosa, nose, the former site of the injection, or other place
• Hematemesis or melena,
• Thrombocytopenia, decreased platelet count (not always)
• Plasma expansion is closely related to the increase in the permeability of blood vessel walls,

All of the above symptoms should be confirmed by examination of blood samples through the laboratory.

Treatment of Dengue Fever

First aid is very important and needs to be done especially for areas far from health care facilities.

Here are some things you can do as a form of first aid to patients with dengue fever are:

1. Giving to drink as much as possible.
2. Compress so the heat down.
3. Giving febrifuge.
4. If within 3 days of the fever does not go down or even up immediately brought to the hospital or clinic.
5. If you can not drink or persistent vomiting, the condition worsens, decreased consciousness or lost it must be hospitalized.

Treatment at this stage is primarily intended to address the bleeding, prevent / treat shock, control of body fluids by drinking heavily, if necessary, intravenous fluid administration.

An important key in  dealing with cases of dengue fever is to adjustment or correction fluid by focusing on body fluids.

When there is a patient lost a lot of fluid through sweat, urination, vomiting include bleeding then it is advisable to be a lot of drinking, but when it's finished fluid leakage, fluid intake should be reduced and even stopped in a specified period.

Efforts are made while increasing the nutritional intake and supplements if necessary, until our bodies are able to form antibodies against dengue virus.

Once established viral antibodies usually the patient will be more immune to dengue virus in the future.

Antibiotics usually will not give meaningful effect given the dengue virus can not be eradicated with high doses of antibiotics though.

Body temperature must be continuously monitored in order to avoid shock. Body temperature cultivated down with a cold compress and drug administration antipyretic .

Some of these tips will be useful lives so that we do not panic if there are members of our own family or even affected by dengue:

1. Immediately consult a physician if you have sudden fever,
2. Monitor the patient's body temperature every day
3. Take the patient back to the doctor if the fever lasts 3 days,
4. Rest and adequate fluid intake are two things that are very important in patients with dengue virus infection.
5. If the patient is getting weak, vomiting, difficulty eating or drinking, intravenous fluids should be done by a doctor.
6. If the laboratory results showed no signs of decreased platelets or an increase in hematocrit, the patient should be hospitalized.
7. Patients should be no shock supervised characterized by a sense of weakness, drowsiness, and fainting, while the foot was cold.

This is the end of sharing about dengue fever, hope it may be useful, thank you.