
Internal Medicine
Dengue Fever Can Be Devastating
admin Oct 11, 2023

- if fever is high grade and not settling
- persisting vomiting or severe abdominal pain
- immense lethargy or restlessness
- or if any of the following signs appear
- Blood spots under the skin (petechiae).
- Bleeding from gums.
- Nose bleeding (epistaxis).
- Vomiting blood (hematemesis)
- low Blood Pressure
- Alarming Laboratory parameters include
- Increase in HCT concurrent with rapid decrease in platelet count
- Co-existing conditions
- Pregnancy
- Diabetes mellitus, hypertension,
- Peptic ulcer, haemolitic anemias and others
- Effective Mosquito Control by not allowing water to stagnate anywhere around
- Wear full sleeve clothes
- Use of Mosquito repellant creams when outdoors during daytime.
- Get Flywire/screening fixed on doors and windows.
- Use insecticides regularly especially in the morning hours – behind & underneath the furniture, curtains etc.