This is an automatically translated article.
The article was professionally consulted by Doctor Head of Department of Medical Examination & Internal Medicine, Vinmec Hai Phong International General Hospital
In recent weeks, dengue fever has started raging in some places. Every year, every year, in the rainy season, standing water causes an outbreak of dengue fever, threatening the health of the entire population, especially children.
Dengue hemorrhagic fever is an acute infection caused by the mosquito that transmits the dengue virus. Symptoms of Dengue hemorrhagic fever are usually high fever, fever attacks, sometimes accompanied by chills, goosebumps. The patient's body temperature can reach 39 - 40 degrees Celsius. If you detect symptoms of dengue fever, you should immediately go to the hospital for examination and treatment. In addition, patients need to avoid the following to limit dangerous complications.
1. Things not to do when you have Dengue hemorrhagic fever
1.1. Do not arbitrarily use antipyretic drugs When the fever has not been determined, do not arbitrarily use antipyretic drugs, such as aspirin or ibuprofen. Unexpectedly, these two drugs will make bleeding in dengue fever patients worse, even severe stomach bleeding, life-threatening.
Instead, fever can be reduced by other non-pharmacological ways. For example, have the patient wear light clothes, rest in a cool place, apply a warm towel to the forehead, and wipe the patient's sweat. Fever reducers should only be used after a doctor's prescription. In addition, absolutely do not perform forms of wind scraping or catching wind for the patient.
1.2. Do not eat foods that are black, brown, or red When eating or drinking colored foods or drinks, the stools of a dengue patient may be stained dark. Therefore, it will be difficult to distinguish from bloody stools in the case of patients with gastrointestinal bleeding.
Sometimes the patient vomits an abnormally dark colored specimen, it is difficult to distinguish whether it is the color of food or the color of blood due to gastrointestinal bleeding.
1.3. Do not eat eggs when you have dengue fever Eggs can generate a large amount of heat stored in the patient's body. For patients with Dengue hemorrhagic fever, especially children, when eating eggs, the body temperature will increase, the heat cannot be spread out, making the fever take a long time to heal. Therefore, eating eggs is a taboo when infected with dengue virus.
1.4. Do not drink strong tea, coffee, smoke, drink alcohol All these drinks contain caffeine, which makes the brain stimulated, increases blood pressure, heart beats faster and the body becomes more tired. Dengue fever patients when drinking solid tea also reduce the effect of some antipyretic drugs. Moreover, in tea contains some substances that increase the body's temperature, making fever worse.
1.5. Do not eat greasy foods Grease is the leading cause of bloating and indigestion. This makes the patient's body sluggish, tired, and slow to recover.
1.6. Do not eat sweets Carbonated soft drinks, sweets, honey and foods containing sugar are things that the patient should avoid. The absorption of too much sugar into the body will make the white blood cells work slowly, the ability to kill bacteria is weak, and the longer the dengue fever will heal.
1.7. Do not eat hot spicy food When infected with Dengue virus, the patient's resistance is reduced, energy is also lost more or less. Loading hot spicy foods into the body not only makes the body tired and aggravates the disease, but also affects the patient's ability to recover.
1.8. Limit mosquito contact with the skin The cause of Dengue hemorrhagic fever is the mosquito that transmits the virus. Once you have the disease, it is likely that you are in an outbreak area. Therefore, do not let mosquitoes come into contact with the skin, not only being transmitted an additional amount of virus, making the disease worse, but also having the risk of spreading the disease to the people around.
2. How long does it take to shower with Dengue fever?
For Dengue hemorrhagic fever patients, personal hygiene is a necessity when faced with discomfort and discomfort from fever and perspiration throughout the body. Besides, dengue fever is not cured in just a few days. Therefore, many patients want to take a bath to relieve the need for body hygiene. However, patients need to be especially careful not to bathe because it can cause serious bleeding.
Hemorrhagic symptoms can occur on the 2nd or 3rd day after infection with dengue virus. This condition lasts a few days, in more severe cases it can be more than 2 weeks. Bleeding can occur in the skin mucosa or on many sites of the body. With such manifestations, the patient should rest at home, should not go to the wind, do not take cold showers. Body hygiene should only be done by wiping the body with warm water, because cold water constricts the vessels on the surface of the skin but dilates the vessels inside the body's internal organs, which is a cause of death related to to bleeding.
When in the rainy season, parents need to actively prevent mosquito bites for their children. Dengue fever prevention can be done by simple things such as sleeping under a mosquito net, covering the bed with a mosquito net, wearing light long-sleeved clothes, changing the standing water around the house,...
At the same time, when the baby has symptoms high fever (especially fever in the evening), fever that cannot be reduced by common antipyretic drugs such as paracetamol, red skin, rash, congested eyes, accompanied by vomiting, ... or suspicious signs If you are infected with Dengue hemorrhagic fever, it is necessary to take the child to a specialist hospital immediately for timely examination and treatment, absolutely do not self-treat at home.
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