Health Information Center – CedrikaProvencher

- Every time the turn of the season arrives, the phenomenon of the disease dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) are classified as deadly a threat to the population of tropical countries like Indonesia.

DHF caused by dengue virus is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes aegipty or Aedes albopictus female pairs. Mosquito-legged white pinto these human bite during the day. Dengue virus consists of four types (strains), namely dengue type 1,2,3, and 4. However, the dominant type in Indonesia is a type 3.

Dengue disease until now was not unexpected. In general, this disease has features such as high temperature, headache and even vomiting blood. But unfortunately, the same symptoms are often found in other diseases. As a result, until now often the case wrong diagnoses. Therefore, you should be more vigilant and recognize other symptoms.

SYMPTOMS:
- Sudden high fever
- Severe headache, especially in the forehead
- Pain in the body and joints
- Nausea or vomiting
- Front redness
- Laboratory tests showed leukocytes and platelets down (less than 100 thousand) and an increase in hematocrit (blood viscosity).

HANDLING
- Monitor patient’s temperature every day
- Bring the patient back to the doctor if the fever lasted 3 days
- Rest and adequate fluid intake are two things that are important in dengue virus infected patients.
- If the patient increasingly weak, vomiting, trouble eating or drinking, needs to be done giving intravenous fluids by doctors.
- If the laboratory results showed no sign of decline or increase platelet hematocrit, the patient should be hospitalized.
- Patients being watched in shock not to place marked by a sense of weakness, drowsiness, and fainting, while the very cold feet