The short note below is a little part of the thesis that I am running now. hoped that this short article could provide some exposure to the symptoms of dengue fever. Enjoy reading! :)
Dengue fever is an infectious disease that can sometime be fatal. The disease usually lasts for 10 days and sometimes takes a long time to fully recover. Dengue is common in adults and children consequential from the bite of the Aedes mosquito. Generally there are two types of dengue disease. The first one is called classical dengue fever. Symptoms that may be experienced by patients are fever, body aches, sore muscles and sore joints. These symptoms are actually not too severe and rarely cause death to the patients. This type of fever is also known as 'break bone fever'.
The other type of dengue disease is dengue hemorrhagic fever. It is usually common in children aged 2 to 13 years. At an early stage about 2 to 4 days, the symptoms are the same as classical dengue fever, but it is then followed by the more severe symptoms such as low blood pressure, rash and red spots on the body, bleeding gums, bloody diarrhea, convulsions as well as unconsciousness. It usually causes death if prompt and appropriate treatment is not done as soon as possible.
Additionally, dengue fever is a disease caused by infection of virus transmitted by the female mosquitoes of Aedes Aegypti. The mosquitoes typically breed and grown in human housing area. This is because the Aedes mosquitoes are more likely to breed in clean water reservoirs. Aedes mosquitoes can transfer the dengue virus to a human to another human being. When a mosquito sucks the blood of an infected person, dengue virus enters the blood stream of mosquito and then spread to the saliva of mosquitoes. When this infected mosquito bites another person, the dengue virus enters the blood stream of new victims. Subsequently this virus will spread very quickly and cause dengue fever.
A person can be infected by dengue virus more than one time. The second dengue fever usually occurs when a former patient is infected by dengue virus different from the first time. This is actually happens due to the immune built in the first infection was not give any effect on new dengue virus. Second dengue infection is typically more serious and harmful than the first infection. A healthy person can be suffered enough from this disease by the bite of this Aedes mosquito carrying the dengue virus.
The disease is said to be very dangerous because there is still no medication to treat it at the moment. Now, what is the most effective way to prevent this disease is to control mosquito breeding. The ways for controlling dengue is to practice environmental sanitation at home and work and this in turn can eliminate places mosquito breeding. Another way to control mosquito breeding is to cover all water saving container, changing, brush and wash all water container once a week, also clean the storm water channel. Ensure that the breeding grounds such as tires, glass, cans are discarded safely, planted all containers that hold water, enter a destructive insect poison (Abate) with the measure of every three months. Also, fogging is done when incidents of dengue cases reported in within 24 hours and will be repeated after 7-10 days. This will be performed two times based on the life cycle of mosquito for a week and the mosquito incubation period of approximately 10 days following. (J.G Clarence, 2011)
