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This video is aimed at everyone and contains information to prevent and treat the disease.
Please spread it with your friends, family, neighbors and contacts, we can all take actions to prevent this disease.
Thank you Doctor Sebastián Genero for the advice.
Dengue, also known as bone-breaking fever or bearded vulture; It is a viral disease that is transmitted only through the bite of the female aedes aegypti mosquito infected with the virus. It is not transmitted from person to person; therefore, the only way to prevent the disease is to avoid mosquito multiplication by fighting possible breeding sites.
- Aedes aegypti grows in natural (tree hollows, leaf armpits and spaces between stones), and artificial (water tanks, barrels, old tires, cans, plastic or glass bottles with water, vases, animal troughs and roof gutters), among the most common.
- Although the months of greatest risk are February, March and April, since the heat and rain peaks converge, from December the mosquito larvae begin to multiply in puddles and all kinds of containers capable of collecting water.
- Dengue viruses have been grouped into four serotypes:
DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 and DENV-4.
Symptoms
The disease can manifest itself in two ways:
A) CLASSIC DENGUE, OR DENGUE FEVER, CHARACTERIZED BY:
- High fever of sudden appearance.
- Severe headaches in the forehead and eyes (retroorbital pain).
- Muscle and joint pain.
- General decay.
- Measles-like chest and limb rashes.
- Nausea and vomiting.
B) DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC OR SHOCK SYNDROME BY DENGUE. IT IS THE MOST SERIOUS WAY:
It occurs when the person is reinfected with a different variety of the virus than the first time, and the following symptoms are added:
- Intense and continuous abdominal pain.
- Pale and sticky skin.
- Bleeding from the nose, mouth and skin.
- Frequent vomiting, sometimes with blood.
- Excessive thirst.
- Fast and weak pulse.
- Difficult breathing.
- Fading.
Incubation of the disease is carried out in a period of three to eight days, where the person in a state of "viremia" transmits the virus to the mosquito, for which reason the doctors indicate that the patient must be isolated for the first seven days to prevent the disease spreads.
Prevention and Treatment
There are simple and straightforward measures to eliminate aedes aegypti hatcheries or prevent some elements from becoming such:
- Dispose of any useless object capable of accumulating water, such as cans, disused tires, flower pots, broken toys and others.
- Keep containers that are not in use upside down, that is, buckets, jars, containers and bottles.
- Cover the water tanks.
- Renew and clean the water of animal troughs daily.
- Replace the water in vases, vases and containers of aquatic plants with wet sand.
- Clean gutters and drainage elbows to allow water to run.
- Get rid of water bottles tied around trees.
- Eliminate all the garbage around the houses.
- Protect yourself from mosquito bites with spirals, pills and place mosquito nets or wire mesh in the home.
- Apply repellent to the exposed parts of the body.
- Keep the water in the swimming pools perfectly clean. Use decanters, filters, algaecides, etc.
- To alleviate pain and fever, it is very important to avoid aspirin (aspirin) and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, as these drugs may aggravate the bleeding associated with some of these infections due to their anticoagulant effects. Instead, patients should take paracetamol (acetaminophen), although this is only a palliative.
- Some cases may require a blood or platelet transfusion if there is significant bleeding as well as oxygen therapy to treat abnormally low levels of oxygen in the blood.
- The information provided here does not replace the consultation with your doctor. It is a contribution, with scientific and suitable bibliography, for the knowledge of the patient who wants to complement the information provided by their doctor.
Source: WHO, Ministry of Health of the Nation, Ministry of Health of the Province of Buenos Aires and National Library of Medicine of the United States.
27 июл 2024
