Dengue Alert !

Dengue fever or DHF usually attack during the rainy season. Moreover, our country including tropical country which is a favorite habitat for mosquitoes. Fever can be a deadly disease if not treated immediately. In particular, children often become targets of mosquito bites that cause disease. As a parent, you should try to prevent children and all family members to avoid this disease. Also need to be alert if there is a family member who showed symptoms of dengue fever. Arm yourself with information about the disease in order to help the negative effects of the disease dengue fever.


Mosquito Aedes aegypti
Outbreaks of dengue fever that drew worldwide attention first appeared in Manila in 1954. Most cases of dengue fever occur in countries located in the tropics and subtropics. This is not surprising because mosquitoes love the warm environment to live.

Aedes aegypti mosquito is a carrier of the Dengue virus. How to spread through mosquito bites a person who has been infected with dengue virus. This virus will be carried in the salivary glands of the mosquito. Then this mosquito bites a healthy person. Along with terhisapnya blood from a healthy person, the dengue virus is also moving to the person and cause healthy people had been infected with dengue virus.

Dengue mosquitoes have different life cycles of insects. Mosquitoes are active from early morning until about 3 pm to suck the blood which also means it can spread the dengue virus. While at night, mosquitoes sleep. So, beware of mosquito bites during the day and prevent mosquitoes bite children were napping.

The habits of these mosquitoes is he happy to be in a puddle of water and in areas with many trees such as in parks or gardens. Standing water in flower pots may be one of the favorite places of mosquitoes can be forgotten by you.



Symptoms of Dengue Fever
A person infected with the virus Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF), generally exhibit the following symptoms:

Continuous high fever. Body temperature around 39-40 degrees Celsius. This causes headaches in people.
Fever without coughing.
Abdominal pain or nausea.
Body aching or pain in the joints.
Red spots appear, but this does not always occur in every case.
If any member of your family shows any of these symptoms, you should immediately take it to the doctor to get treatment. Do not let the fever too long because it can lead to late to help. To be sure, you can do a blood check.



Danger of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF)
There are 4 types of Dengue disease. So, someone who has been affected by dengue fever, does not mean he will not be affected by this disease because there are 3 other types that can cause fever as well.

When exposed to dengue, a person will have three phases. The first is the phase of fever during the first 3 days. Continues on next 3 days which is a critical phase. In this phase, the fever is not the case, but in this phase must guard against being fooled by assuming been recovered and no treatment. Three days later is the healing phase.

One of the dangers of dengue fever is considered experienced as the common cold that are considered minor and do not get special treatment. Moreover, in the second phase, usually fever had gone down so it is considered cured.



DBD treatment
There is no specific drug to cure dengue fever. So, things to do to help cure people affected by this disease are:

Give febrifuge or paracetamol.
Compress that heat is not too high. Compress should be done with warm water, not cold water or ice. Cold water can cause the patient to shiver so that the body gets hot.
Drink lots of water. DHF will usually dehydrated, so water is very good for them. Of water can also help reduce the heat. In addition to water, can also provide oral rehydration fluids to aid healing.
Nutritious food. Actually there are no dietary restrictions for patients with DHF. Provide nutritious meals for your body to be strong and able to fight the dengue virus. Fruits and vegetables can be very beneficial for recovery.
Drinking water guava leaves and red yeast rice can help increase platelets.
Treatment can be done at home if the condition is not bad, and allowed by the doctor. However, it takes precision in care. You should also continue to consult with the doctor and do blood tests every day to find out his condition. Hospitalization may be an option if you feel it is more secure because of medical action can be taken immediately if the patient's condition declined also possible given intravenous fluids to increase the patient.

Things are dangerous because of dengue virus infection can cause blood platelets dropped to very low. Which will then cause the blood vessels to become deflated, allowing blood to leak fluid into the cavities of the body and cause bleeding in the ear, nose, or skin that can lead to death.


Dengue Prevention
It is best to prevent any family members affected by dengue. The actions that can be done to prevent it are:

Prevent mosquito breeding around us. You can perform the movements 3M Closing water storage, drain the tub and Burying goods unused. Mosquito larvae will develop in standing water in about a week. Therefore, it prevented the possibility of objects that is where the development of these larvae such as flower pots, tin cans, old tires or other items that hold standing water, especially during the rainy season where these places can be a puddle of rain water.
Prevent mosquitoes do not bite, for example by using mosquito repellent lotion or medication.
Mennggunakan powder Abate on sewer and water reservoirs so as not to be a breeding place for mosquitoes.
Keep healthy condition. Body condition is strong, helping the body to ward off viruses that enter so even bitten by a mosquito, the virus will not develop.
Dengue can not be considered a mild disease. This disease can lead to death. Thus, precautions and always be aware of this disease can protect those you love from the dangers of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever or Dengue.