Beware of Dengue Fever

Dengue fever or DHF usually attack during the rainy season. Moreover, a tropical country which is the favorite living places for mosquitoes. This fever can be a deadly disease if not promptly treated. In particular, children often become the target of mosquito bites that cause this disease. As a parent, you should try to prevent children and all family members to avoid this disease. Also need to act swiftly if a family member who showed symptoms of dengue fever. Arm yourself with information about this disease in order to help the negative consequences of the disease dengue hemorrhagic fever.

Aedes Aegypti Mosquito (causes dengue fever or DHF)

Outbreaks of dengue fever that attracted worldwide attention first appeared in Manila in 1954. Most cases of dengue fever occurred in the country located in the tropics and subtropics. This is not surprising because the mosquitoes love with a warm environment to live.

Aedes aegypti mosquito is a carrier of the disease dengue fever virus. How to spread via mosquitoes that bite a person who had been infected with dengue virus. This virus will be carried in the mosquito salivary glands. These mosquitoes then bite a healthy person. Along with terhisapnya blood of healthy people, the virus of dengue fever was also moved to that person and cause healthy people had been infected with dengue virus.

Dengue mosquito has a life cycle that differs from normal mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are active from morning until around 3 pm to suck the blood that also means it can spread the dengue fever virus. While at night, this mosquito bed. So, be careful of mosquito bites during the day and prevent these mosquitoes bite a child who was taking a nap.

Habit of this mosquito is he happy to be in a puddle of water and in areas with many trees such as in parks or gardens. Stagnant water in flower pot may be one of the favorite places of mosquitoes that can be forgotten by you.

Symptoms of Dengue Fever

A person infected with Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF), generally show the following symptoms:

1. High fever continued. Body temperature around 39-40 degrees Celsius. This causes headaches in people.
2. Fever without a cough.
3. Upset stomach or nausea.
   Body feels stiff or pain in the joints.
4. Appears red spots, but this does not always happen in every case.
   

If any member of your family shows these symptoms, you should immediately take it to the doctor to get treatment. Do not let the fever for too long because it can lead to late to help. To be more exact, you can do blood checks.

Dangers of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever or DHF

Dengue disease consists of 4 types. So, someone who has been affected by dengue fever, does not mean he will not be affected by this disease because there are 3 other types that can cause fever as well.

When infected with dengue, a person will have 3 phases. The first isis the phase of fever during the first 3 days . Continues on next 3 days which is a critical phase. In this phase, the fever had not occurred, but in this phase must be vigilant so as not to be fooled with regard has been recovered and no treatment. Three days later the healing phase.

One of the dangers of dengue fever is considered experienced as usual so it is considered a mild fever and did not get special treatment. Moreover, in the second phase, usually fever has come down so it is considered cured.

DHF treatment

There is no specific drug to cure dengue fever. So, things you can do to help cure people affected by this disease are:

1. Give a febrifuge or paracetamol.
2. Apply heat for not too high. Compress should be done with warm water, not with cold water or ice. Cold water can cause shivering patient so the body gets hot.
3. Drink lots of water. Patients with DHF usually be deprived of fluid, the water is very good for them. Water can also help reduce the heat. In addition to water, can also provide liquid oral rehydration salts to help healing.
4. Meals are nutritious. Actually there are no dietary restrictions for patients with DHF. Provide nutritious food for the body to be strong and to fight dengue virus. Fruits and vegetables can be very helpful for recovery.
5. Drinking water guava leaf and red yeast rice can help raise the platelet.
   

Treatment can be done at home if conditions are not bad people and allowed by the doctor. However, it takes care in maintaining them. You should also continue to consult with your doctor and do blood check every day to find out his condition. Hospitalization may be an option if you feel it is more secure because the medical action can be taken immediately if the patient's condition decline is also possible given intravenous fluids to increase patient.

The things that harm from dengue disease due to infection with this virus can cause blood platelets drops to very low. Which then will cause the blood vessels become deflated, so that fluid leaking blood into the body cavities and cause bleeding in the ear, nose, or skin that can lead to death.

Dengue Prevention

The best thing is to prevent so that no family members affected by dengue. The actions that can be done to prevent it are:

1. Prevent mosquito breeding around us. You can do that is Closes 3M movement of water storage, drain the tub and Burying the goods unused. Mosquito larvae will develop in stagnant water in about a week. Therefore, it prevented the possibility of things which is where the development of these larvae, such as flower pots, tin cans, old tires or other items that hold standing water, especially in the rainy season where these places can be a puddle of rain water.
2. Prevent mosquitoes do not bite, for example by using mosquito repellent lotion or medication.
3. carrying around an ungainly powder Abate on sewer and water reservoirs so as not to be a breeding place for mosquitoes.
4. Keep healthy condition. The condition of a strong body, helps the body to ward off viruses that enter so that even if exposed to mosquito bites, the virus will not develop.

Dengue fever can not be considered a mild disease. This disease can cause death. So, take precautions and remain vigilant against the disease can protect those you love from the dangers of Dengue or DHF.

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Uric Acid

Uric acid is commonly experienced by many people today. In fact, people are still quite young too often overridden this disease. Actually, what this disease? What are the symptoms, causes, and solutions? Food and what is taboo? Here I will review it for you.

Uric acid is a purine metabolic waste substances from the food we eat. It is also a byproduct from the breakdown of cells in the blood.

Purine that is a substance contained in any food that comes from the living body. In other words, in the living body there is this purine substances, and because we eat these creatures, then moves into purine substance in our body. Various vegetables and fruits also contained purine. Purine also resulted from the destruction of body cells that occurs normally or because of certain diseases.

Normally, uric acid will be released in the body through the stool (feces) and urine, but because the kidneys are unable to remove uric acid that is causing rising levels in the body. Another thing that can increase uric acid levels is that we consume too many foods that contain lots of purines. Excess uric acid will then be collected in the joints, causing pain or swelling.

Patients with gout after undergoing appropriate treatment can be treated so that the levels of uric acid in the body back to normal. But because the body there is the potential buildup of uric acid, it is recommended to control food intake so as to avoid food containing purines.

The Symptoms of Uric Acid

1. Tingling and pains
2. Pain, especially at night or early morning waking
3. The joints affected by gout visible swelling, redness, heat and incredible pain at night and morning.
   

Uric Acid Solutions

1. Conduct treatment until uric acid levels returned to normal. Normal levels are 2.4 to 6 for women and 3.0 to 7 for men.
2. Control of food consumed.
3. Drink plenty of water. By drinking lots of water, we can help get rid of purines in the body.
   

Foods to Avoid (a food that has a lot of purine)

1. Side dishes such as organ meats, liver, kidney, spleen, tripe, intestines, lungs and brain.
2. seafood such as shrimp, scallops, squid, crab.
3. Food cans are like corned beef and sardines.
4. Meat, eggs, broth or gravy is thick.
5. Legumes such as soybeans (including processed products like tempeh, tauco, oncom, soy milk), peanuts, green beans, bean sprouts, melinjo, chips.
6. Vegetables such as spinach leaves, kale, cassava leaves, asparagus, cauliflower, green beans.
7. Fruits such as durian, avocado, pineapple, coconut water.
8. Drinks and foods containing alcohol such as beer, whiskey, wine, tape, palm wine.
   

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