How to identify children with dengue fever

Dengue fever is a dangerous disease, the speed of rapid spread is easy to break down into a pandemic. Children who are most susceptible to dengue fever if not detected and treated promptly will lead to many dangerous complications, even death.

In addition, dengue fever is often confused with other diseases such as typhus, virus, nasopharyngitis .

So, how to distinguish dengue? How to prevent dengue fever for children?

Learn about dengue fever

Dengue fever is an acute infectious disease, caused by Dengue virus and Aedes Aegypti mosquito is the vector of transmission. Mosquitoes burn people with viral infections then burn healthy people and get sick.

The disease occurs all year round but often breaks out into a large epidemic in the rainy season, from April to November each year.

Aedes Aegypti is a median disease of transmission.(Illustration)

Symptoms of dengue fever in children

Light body:

1. The fever is suddenly high over 38^oC, lasting for 2 - 7 days.
2. Difficulty in fever, severe headache in the forehead.
3. Muscular aches and pains.
4. Pain behind the eyeball, may show signs of a rash.
5. Do not include cough, runny nose, diarrhea.
6. Infants often give up feeding, crying..
7. The rash (petechiae) usually occurs after 3 days of fever, growing in the arms, legs, torso, as small as a mosquito bite, round, not itchy, and does not disappear when stretching or pressing into the skin.

Children suffer from rash in the arms, legs, body . (Artwork)

Note: Children aged 4-5 years and early days of rash should be easily mistaken for viral fever or infectious fever.

Serious:

1. Sudden high fever above 38^oC.
2. Severe headache in the forehead, pain in the eyeball.
3. Bleeding outside the skin.
4. Abdominal pain, nausea, cold limbs, struggle, panic .
5. Nosebleeds, bleeding of the roots, bruising of the injection site, vomiting of blood, black stools .

Mothers must remember the onset of fever, their signs to tell the doctor and focus on children with the above mentioned signs to recognize dengue soon.Take your child to the clinic every day and whenever the child has unusual signs such as: Lethargy, vomiting, severe abdominal pain, heavy bleeding, cold hands and feet.Early diagnosis, prompting children to go to the hospital in time, treatment of dengue fever will achieve the best results.

Reason

1. Due to Dengue virus.
2. Because mosquitoes are a source of infection.

How dangerous is dengue fever?

1. Reducing labor, affecting health.
2. The disease can cause a big epidemic.
3. If late detection leads to shock, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage, cardiovascular collapse, paralysis, death leading to death.

Care for children with dengue fever

Care mode

1. Wear light, light-colored clothes to drain water.
2. Food : Offer your child liquid, nutritious, easy to digest foods such as porridge, soup, milk and should serve small meals.
3. Drinking water : give children more water than usual.Water is recommended for children to drink as filtered water, cold boiled water, juice: orange juice, lemon juice, or Oresol 1 packs 1 liter of drinking water gradually.
4. Vitamins : children need to provide vitamins A, B, C to enhance metabolism for the body and enhance immunity, resistance to the body against disease.

Give children plenty of water, fruit, eat easily digested foods.(Illustration)

The drug is used

1. Antipyretic drugs: paracetamol: 15mg / kg body weight (750mg for 50kg people), days: 2-3 times.
2. Priority for oral rehydration (oresol).
3. Infusion as directed by the doctor.

Prohibited drugs

1. Do not take aspirin for both adults and children (aspirin causes cerebral edema and increased acidity causing gastrointestinal bleeding).
2. Do not use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (make bleeding in dengue fever not manageable).

Methods for prevention of dengue fever for children

1. Cover jars and jars of water not to let mosquitoes lay eggs.
2. Drop fish into all water containers in the house to eat larvae.
3. Scouring, changing water containers 1 week / 1 time.
4. Collect waste items around the house, turn over waste items containing water.
5. Let children wear long-sleeved clothes.

Let your child lie on the bed every time he goes to sleep to prevent mosquito bites.(Illustration)

1. When you sleep, you must have a curtain (even during the day).
2. Kill mosquitoes with chemicals such as spraying, impregnating mosquito nets, mosquito repellent towers, spraying mosquito repellent, applying mosquito repellent cream .
3. Adequate supplementation of food and nutrition to enhance children's resistance.

Epilogue

Dengue fever is the most common viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes in humans. If hemorrhagic fever is not detected in time, it will lead to many dangerous complications, even death, so be cautious, avoid confusion with typhus

In recent years the disease has become a major public health concern and has become a epidemic in 100 countries in Africa, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean region, Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. . The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 50 to 100 million people get sick each year.

Therefore, in order to protect the health of ourselves and our family, we need to clean the house, avoid water in the lu, jars, pots, sleep in the curtain, long clothes . to avoid mosquito bites. Also need a full complement of nutrients, regular exercise to strengthen the body's resistance.