Dengue Fever

Dengue fever is nowadays becoming a common viral fever. The principal agent causing the dengue fever is the mosquito Aedes aegypti. It breeds in stagnated water. When an infected mosquito bites a human being, the virus enters with the body, and it takes 2-7 days to produce symptoms.

Clinical Features

• Malaise and headache for about two days
• Fever, generalized body pain (break bone fever) anorexia, nausea vomiting, weakness, prostration, pain on eye movement, headache and low heart beat.
• Fever last about 7-8 days.
• After two to three days, rash began to appear on the whole body except palm and sole.

Dengue hemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome

It usually occurs in children. In mild case, there are thrombocytopenia and low hemoglobin. But in severe case, blood pressure goes down, and pulse become weak then there is leakage of blood. So on the skin bleeding spots (ecchymotic patches) appear, and there is bleeding from the nose also. All these occur after 3-4 days of fever. And also bleeding may occur in the gastrointestinal tract.
In adult, dengue hemorrhagic syndrome occurs rarely, but if it occurs, it is fatal. There is bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract, liver function is affected as evidence by elevated liver enzyme, and blood abnormalities.

Investigations

• Blood examination-leucocytes count is markedly reduced and also -thrombocytes.
• Increased serum IgG antibody.
• Detection dengue virus from blood.

Treatment

• General measures
• Cleaning the surrounding, and avoid water stagnation, which is the point of breeding places.

Homeopathic treatment

Homeopathic treatment is highly effective, and since it is treating according to symptom similarity, it prevents the further complications also. There are effective medicines in homeopathy like Eupatorium, Rhus tox, Bryonia, etc. Medicines are selected according to the symptom similarity hence from individual to individual the medicine may change and depending up on the vitality of the patient the potency as well changes. So homeopathy is highly recommended for the treatment of dengue fever.