Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever

DBD Musim rain, as now the climate is very conducive for mosquito breeding, plus another with our lifestyle is far from a healthy lifestyle. One of the diseases caused by mosquito bites is Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF). DHF is caused by a virus transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes Aegypty. Mosquitoes are not sesahabat name, so we can bite directly contracted dengue. Aedes mosquitoes Aegypt possess striped black and white stripes on its body (not red white you know ..), and bite in the morning and evening, sometimes also during ...... One mosquito can infect more than one person in a short time, and unfortunately we can be infected with dengue more than once.

• Symptoms of Dengue Fever

Complaints and symptoms are often experienced by patients with DHF are:

   A. Red spots, often at the beginning of fever, no red spots. There are some cases that are no red spots.

   2. High heat, heat can go up and down, or may not go down at all throughout the day.

   3. Chills and bone ache, feeling cold all over his body and there are certain points on the body piercing  bones ache.

   4. Toilet is black and hard, these symptoms have started to be seen if a low platelet

   5. Platelets began to fall, levels of platelets can be identified by blood tests in the laboratory.

   6. Pain when the eye could see to the side, some friends had this pain when glancing left and right side.

   7. Neck pain, sometimes also, swelling and pain in the neck

   8. Severe headaches, particularly felt in the back of the eye, colds and flu

   9. Inflammation of the joints

  10. Loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea

  11. Fatigue, weakness, lethargy

  12. In patients who have severe usually caused pendarahanpada mouth and nose

After the shoot / incubation lasted for 3-15 days, infected people can have / have had it in one of the following four forms, namely:

    * The form abortive, a patient does not feel any symptoms.

    * Classic dengue, the patient experienced high fever for 4-7 days, pains in the bones, followed by the appearance of spots or patches of bleeding under the skin.

    * Dengue haemorrhagic fever (dengue hemorrhagic fever / DHF) symptoms are similar to classic dengue plus bleeding from the nose, mouth, anus and so on.

    * Dengue Shock Syndrome, its symptoms are similar to the DBD coupled with the shock / presyok in this common form of death.

Because of frequent bleeding and shock, then the disease death rate is quite high, therefore any patient suspected of having dengue fever disease in any level should be immediately taken to the doctor or hospital, given at any time can go into shock / death.

• Dengue Prevention Method

Prevention is by avoiding mosquito bites throughout the day (dawn to dusk) because aedes mosquito is active during the day (not night). This can be done to avoid being in the locations that a lot of mosquitoes during the day, especially in areas with its DBD. If it is necessary to be in place Wear clothes that MORE CLOSED, long pants and long sleeve shirt for example. USE A LIQUID / CREAM ANTI MOSQUITO (MOSQUITO repellant) that are sold in stores, on the body that are not covered clothes.Keep an eye on the environment in the home and yard. Discard or store up useless objects that hold water, or store in such a way that does not hold water. Sprinkle the powder abate (which can be purchased at pharmacies) in the bath and other water collection points, also in the trenches / ditches in and around the home, especially when the ditch water is not / less flow. Pond / aquarium without fish should not be left blank, fill it with mosquito larvae-eating fish. Spray parts of the house and yard which is where mosquitoes berkeliarannya, with mosquito spray (which are sold in stores) MOSQUITO LOOKS WHEN MORNING roam / AFTERNOON / EVENING DAY.If there was one occupant in a positive or suspected of having dengue, immediately spray the whole house and yard with mosquito spray in the morning, afternoon and evening, even if the patient is already hospitalized. Contact your local health center to ask for fogging in homes in the local environment.Prevention in bulk in the local environment by working with the RT / RW / Village with the local health center is done by cleaning Sarang Mosquitoes (PSN), Fogging, or break the chain of Aedes aegypti breeding in Abatisasi.