Beware, Mosquitoes dengue fever !

The rainy season comes, people with dengue fever continue to grow. Even hospitals sometimes have to provide additional beds for dengue fever patients. This disease does not know the age, can attack adults, children, and five. Can even cause death, especially in children and does not cause a rare occurrence or extraordinary outbreak. Dengue fever is a disease caused by the dengue virus is transmitted through bites and mosquito Aedes aegypti.

Aedes Aegypti mosquito

This aedes mosquitoes breed and live in the place of clean water that does not relate directly to land, such as: bath / toilet, water crock, cans and used tires, etc..

Development of the life of this mosquito egg to adult takes about 10-12 minutes. Only female mosquitoes that bite and suck blood and blood human beings choose to cook eggs, male mosquitoes living essence of flower plants. The ability to fly in the range of 40-100 meters from the developing biaknya. Resting place of interest are the things that depend on the house, such as gordyn, netting, clothing / clothing room in the dark and humid.

Clinical symptoms of dengue fever

- Usually marked with 4 main clinical symptoms, high fever 2-7 days, phenomena bleeding, liver enlargement and circulation failure / shock.
- Symptoms broadcaster; painful headache, muscle pain, rash relief / redness in the skin, bone pain, nausea, heart aches Ulu.
- Bleeding phenomenon that often happens is arising The speck The speck-red in the face and arm, leg and mouth palate. Nosebleed and gum bleeding can also occur. A more serious situation can cause bleeding in the body's organs.
- Laboratory of support: trombositopenia (trombosit less than 100,000 / mm3), hemokonsentrasi (HT kadar more 20% of normal).
- Is a critical phase when the temperature down, which is between the third and fifth days. Increased risk of a shock (a lot of sweat, anxiety. Ujung hands cold feet) and can be fatal.

Not all people with dengue fever should be treated, if the complaint is only a fever accompanied by one of the symptoms; head aches, muscle, bone enough outpatient and recommended to rest for the fever. Febrifuge and peroral fluid and electrolyte, fruit juice, syrup, milk, water beside the white, it is recommended to monitor the temperature, the amount of trombosit and hematrokit back to normal. If you have good skin bleeding occurred arising directly or through Tourniquet test and must be treated in the hospital diobservasi.

STRATEGY of dengue fever
Effective prevention should be implemented in an integral together between communities, government and health workers.

Eradication efforts include:
- Prevention, the movement known as the 3 M, that is;

1. drain the water regularly at least once a week or abate powder scatter them.
2. seal the water
3. bury / remove items that can be used to accommodate the rain water, such as cans, used, plastic, etc.

- Spraying / fogging focus on the location of the case.
- Visit to ruamh to-house monitoring jentik and abatisasi.
- Extension and a tribute to the activities of 3M.

Message for parents

- If your children have a fever higher than 2 days immediately check to the doctor, with still provide adequate fluids and febrifuge.
- If your child is declared a dengue fever suspect then returned;
1. control every day to suit the hospital fever.
2. febrifuge provided when needed.
3. give to drink at least 4-6 glasses per day, in addition to white water can be the sweet, syrup, fruit juice, oralit, etc..
4. if at times found signs gravity, that is, children appear weak, the body, especially the cold hands and feet, vomiting continuously, convulsions, nosebleed, bleeding others. Children immediately brought back to the hospital.