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Dengue fever

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Dengue fever, the mode of transmission:

Dengue virus, can only be stored in the human, monkey, and the vector mosquitoes in vivo. Dengue vector mosquito Egypt Ban mosquito Aedes albopictus. The virus has to be from person to person by mosquitoes bites can. Vector mosquito bites, dengue fever patients (from the day before the onset of a fever until the fever is infectious) for 8-15 days, with the ability of life-long transmission of the virus.


Repeated infection of the different types of dengue virus can cause dengue hemorrhagic fever

Distinguish dengue fever Type: (depending on the severity of the disease)
(1) typical dengue fever (DengueFever)
(2) the blood type of dengue fever

The symptoms of dengue fever
(1) the symptoms of classic dengue fever (39 ° C to 40 ° C) or chills, skin rash, limb pain, muscle pain, forehead, headache and retro-orbital pain.
(2) hemorrhagic dengue fever, clinical symptoms, mainly fever, headache, muscle pain, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, gastrointestinal bleeding, uterine bleeding, hematuria, and convalescent rash. Blood type of dengue fever with classic dengue
The symptoms are very similar between the different point is that the former plasma exudation, clinical ascites and their membrane effusion, which is rare in the typical dengue fever symptoms. Hemorrhagic Fever in plasma exudation many patients will show the shock phenomenon, the so-called dengue shock syndrome. The patient's skin, clammy, cold extremities, restlessness, weak pulse, pulse pressure narrows (<20mmHg), this hypovolemic shock if not diagnosed early, and be appropriate infusion therapy, life-threatening Plasma exudation of hemorrhagic dengue fever is about when the fever will be back, or fever after 24-48 hours, so during this period, the physician should be told the family members to monitor the patient's condition changes, if the patient's skin is cold and wet , cold extremities, restless, namely to bring the patient to see a doctor, do not mistake the hot back does not matter, and the weak only in the patient after the illness.


Clinical symptoms of dengue hemorrhagic fever:

Fever, headache, muscle pain, nausea, fatigue, epistaxis, gastrointestinal bleeding, uterus bleeding, hematuria, and convalescent rash.


Treatment of a critical moment:

Treatment of hemorrhagic dengue fever, a critical moment, about the fever will be back when the fever subsided after 24-48 hours may occur in plasma exudation.

The mortality rate of dengue fever:

A typical dengue fever:
Children and the elderly attack rate than adults; death rate of less than 1%.
Second, hemorrhagic dengue fever:
The highest attack rate of infants under one year old and two to eight-year-old children; without proper treatment, the mortality rate of up to 15 ~ 50%.

Dengue hemorrhagic fever is different from typical dengue fever, the mortality rate is about 15-50%.


Note:
First, patients suffering from dengue fever should rest and added water, and physicians co-operate fully follow the instructions of the physician medication can be gradually recovered after about a week, there will be no after-effects.
Second, patients in the sick period, if the vector mosquitoes bite to the transmission of the virus vector mosquito, the vector mosquito bites someone else, they will put the disease to others. In order not to re-contagious disease, patients ill in bed to hang a mosquito net, but also to clean up the home environment, not the vector mosquitoes.
The three travel to Southeast Asia, ill return as soon as possible for medical treatment, account of the itinerary, provide physicians with diagnosis and treatment of reference, to avoid dengue fever imported.
Physician diagnosis and treatment of patients suspected cases of dengue fever symptoms, as soon as possible to report on the health units, in order to adopt emergency control measures, to avoid endangering the health of family members, neighbors.