Why can't dengue drink antibiotics?

Arbitrary use of antibiotics when dengue fever can cause many serious consequences.

Can dengue fever take antibiotics?

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When you have dengue fever, taking antibiotics can cause adverse health reactions.

The answer is "no". Because dengue fever has many manifestations similar to the common flu, many people have a habit of buying medicine for themselves, including antibiotics. However, for dengue fever, taking antibiotics does not only bring about effects but can also cause adverse health reactions.

Taking antibiotics when you have dengue fever can cause serious harm

Use antibiotics to weaken the virus, thereby enabling antibodies to kill the virus by phagocytosis. However, in dengue fever, antibodies that destroy the reverse also cause the virus to develop so taking antibiotics in this case does not work.

Not only stopping at wasting money, the use of antibiotics when having dengue fever also negatively affects health. The reason is that in dengue, blood is concentrated, the use of antibiotics at this time will make the concentration of antibiotics in the blood high, easily lead to complications. Not only that, for patients with allergic conditions, using antibiotics at this time can also cause side effects, making the patient more tired, the treatment is more complicated and expensive.

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We need to keep the house clean, neat, spray insecticide . to prevent dengue fever.

Antibiotics are usually only recommended for use when there are signs of infection, and this must be indicated by a specialist, doctor. Therefore, we absolutely do not arbitrarily use antibiotics when having dengue fever.

Note when there are people with dengue fever around

As recommended by the Ministry of Health, employment should be a top priority in the current situation of dengue fever spread. When there are people with dengue fever, we need to do the following things immediately:

  1. Take the patient right away for instructions on correct treatment.
  2. Notify local authorities to take more thorough prevention.
  3. Do the following : DAILY : monitor body temperature, pay attention to eating and drinking to increase resistance, wear long-sleeved clothes when going out, keep the house clean, neat, remove items containing excess water, get screened when going to bed.