{"id":156,"date":"2012-05-23T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/dengue-fever-alert\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T05:54:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T05:54:11","slug":"dengue-fever-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/infectious-diseases\/dengue-fever-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Dengue Fever Alert!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"caps\">Suspect dengue when a high fever (40\u00b0C\/ 104\u00b0F) is accompanied by two of the following symptoms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Severe headache<\/li>\n<li>Pain behind the eyes<\/li>\n<li>Nausea, Vomiting<\/li>\n<li>Swollen glands<\/li>\n<li>Muscle and joint pains<\/li>\n<li>Rash<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EdNAj0hQtdc\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Severe dengue is a potentially deadly complication due to plasma leaking, fluid accumulation, respiratory distress, severe bleeding, or organ impairment. The warning signs to look out for occur 3-7 days after the first symptoms in conjunction with a decrease in temperature (below 38\u00b0C\/ 100\u00b0F) include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Severe <a href=\"https:\/\/kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/gastroenterology\/abdominal-pain-symptoms-causes-and-treatments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abdominal pain<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Persistent vomiting<\/li>\n<li>Rapid breathing<\/li>\n<li>Bleeding gums<\/li>\n<li>Blood in vomit<\/li>\n<li>Fatigue, restlessness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"also-read\">Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/lifestyle\/stay-safe-from-dengue-mosquitoes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Stay Safe from Dengue Mosquitoes<\/a><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Treatment of Dengue Fever:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Being a virus, antibiotics are not effective against Dengue. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/Doctors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patients should seek medical advice<\/a>, take rest and drink plenty of fluids. Paracetamol can be taken to bring down fever and reduce joint pains. However, aspirin or ibuprofen should not be taken since they can increase the risk of bleeding.<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/News-Events\/September-Dengue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">severe dengue<\/a>, medical care by doctors can frequently save lives. Maintenance of the patient&#8217;s circulating fluid volume is critical.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Kauvery Hospital, Chennai at <a href=\"tel:+91 44 40006000\">+91 44-40006000<\/a> if you suspect having Dengue Fever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kauvery Hospital is globally known for its multidisciplinary services at all its Centers of Excellence, and for its comprehensive, Avant-Grade technology, especially in diagnostics and remedial care in heart diseases, transplantation, vascular and neurosciences medicine. Located in the heart of Trichy (Tennur, Royal Road and Alexandria Road (Cantonment), Chennai, Hosur, Salem, Tirunelveli and Bengaluru, the hospital also renders adult and pediatric trauma care.<\/p>\n<p>Chennai \u2013 044 4000 6000 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Cantonment \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Heartcity \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Tennur \u2013 0431 4022555 \u2022 Maa Kauvery Trichy \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Kauvery Cancer Institute, Trichy \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Hosur \u2013 04344 272727 \u2022 Salem \u2013 0427 2677777 \u2022 Tirunelveli &#8211; 0462 4006000 \u2022 Bengaluru &#8211; 080 6801 6801<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspect dengue when a high fever (40\u00b0C\/ 104\u00b0F) is accompanied by two of the following symptoms: Severe headache Pain behind the eyes Nausea, Vomiting Swollen glands Muscle and joint pains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-diseases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8499,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/8499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}