Drinking coconut water for Dengue hemorrhagic fever can help cool the body down, detoxify, stop bleeding, and be a diuretic. Coconut water has a naturally sweet, cool, neutral taste, has the effect of quenching thirst, and has many nutrients that can help reduce hot fever and cure measles, diarrhea, dysentery, and stomach pain. Besides, coconut water taken under sterile conditions can also replace infusion solutions and be used to prepare medicine.
1. What medicine to take for Dengue hemorrhagic fever?
Outpatient treatment for Dengue hemorrhagic fever is mainly symptomatic treatment, patients are closely monitored so that shock can be detected early and treated promptly.
When treating symptoms, if the patient has a high fever of 39 degrees Celsius or higher, the use of antipyretics is indicated, and patients should wear cool clothes and cool the body with warm water.
Please note that the antipyretic medication recommended here is pure paracetamol, administered at a dosage of 10 to 15 mg per kg of body weight at one time. This can be repeated every 4 to 6 hours, but the total dose of paracetamol must not exceed 60 mg per kg of body weight within 24 hours. It is particularly important to avoid using antipyretic drugs such as aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid), analgin, and ibuprofen for treatment, as they may cause bleeding and swelling.
2. Why do people with Dengue hemorrhagic fever drink coconut water?
When treating Dengue hemorrhagic fever as an outpatient, another equally important issue is to encourage the patient to rehydrate early by taking oral fluids because fever often causes dehydration. Patients can supplement and drink electrolyte solution, cooled boiled water, fruit juices, or diluted porridge with salt.
Among fruit juices, coconut water is considered by Traditional Medicine to be one of the good foods for people with Dengue hemorrhagic fever because coconut water is a natural source of water, providing essential minerals and electrolytes. Drinking coconut water is a good way to replenish the amount of fluid in the body.
What can be done to treat Dengue hemorrhagic fever quickly? Patients can drink coconut water in addition to other rehydration drinks. Because coconut water is 95.5% water, the rest is 4.0% carbohydrates, 2.2 - 3.7 mg% vitamin C, 0.5mg% iron, 0.4% inorganic substances, 0. 1% protein, 0.1% lipid, 0.02% calcium, 0.01% phosphorus, along with many amino acids (arginine, alanine, cysteine , and serine) and B vitamins.
Drinking coconut water for Dengue hemorrhagic fever can help the body cool down, detoxify, stop bleeding, and be a diuretic. Coconut water has a naturally sweet, cool, neutral taste, has the effect of quenching thirst, and has many nutrients that can help reduce hot fever and cure measles, diarrhea, dysentery, and stomach pain. Besides, coconut water taken under sterile conditions can also replace infusion solutions and be used to prepare medicine.
3. How to properly prevent Dengue hemorrhagic fever by drinking coconut water?
During the peak season of Dengue hemorrhagic fever, to prevent disease, you can drink coconut water regularly and can drink 3 to 4 coconuts a day.
For people with a fever, regardless of the fever, they should drink coconut water instead of regular cooled boiled water if they feel thirsty. However, note that you should not add anything to coconut water. Drinking fresh coconut water directly and then eating coconut flesh is a good way.
Although drinking coconut water for Dengue hemorrhagic fever can help reduce fever symptoms, cool down, and detoxify, if the disease has severe symptoms, the patient should seek medical attention to be diagnosed. And timely treatment.
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