They were happy getting out of the hospital that day, the test result is negative so the fear of leukemia is over and this might be an allergy or whatever. They were given a discharge order because as far as the test result is concern, this girl, of about 6 years of age is not having leukemia or cancer of the blood as suspected. Furthermore her health condition is quite fair enough comparing when she was admitted three days before. What puzzled everybody are the rashes and marks on her body which seems to bother everyone even the doctors. These rashes and marks were used to identify those who were suffering from anemia or the worse is leukemia. So the parents were advice to let their little girl undergo a marrow test as the best medical solution to the unknown medical condition of their child.
They were back in their usual daily routine as things seems to get normal with their kid, they took every care possible to make her recover fast enough, her mother knowing her little girl seems to have some kind of anemia and blood related problem sort to local found iron rich vegetables believe by the old folks to be good for such situation. But things did not come out right because after two days the little girl complain about having a severe stomach pain and again she was rushed to the hospital. It only takes few hours and the girl passed away. They found out that the girls blood platelets dropped down to its lowest level, this triggers internal bleeding which greatly affects vital organs resulting to fatalities.
Even today, my friend has told me that he was really puzzled what really the little girl’s cause of death was. But when I happen to relate to him what happen to my son who was infected with dengue, he told me that the symptoms is almost similar, then I told him that maybe its dengue which has cause her niece death, which at that point of time this ailments is not common not like today.
That was the days when dengue was not yet fully diagnosed by most of the medical experts. It is a time when everybody, even doctors are not well aware of this new health threat that is being spread widely by the mosquitoes. Today though dengue is prevalent and multiple numbers are being infected, which rises the statistics of fatalities and similar case, people are not well aware or even have a little knowledge about this kind of disease which afflicts populace especially in the tropical areas.
Though it seems that dengue poses a big threat to one’s health, little is known of its symptoms and its cure; and experts are saying that dengue still has no antidote develop for its cure. This shocking truth has left us groping in the dark about this disease, while we watch dengue strikes like a sickle in the hands of the reaper taking lives along with other ailments which are the common cause of death.
There is a saying that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. So it is, but today who can say that we’re doing enough to prevent dengue, even if we sealed our houses with mosquito screens and apply all mosquito repelling lotions, for sure this disease will find its way through. And that what has happened to my son Raniel who was infected lately with dengue, (my article “DON’T PLAY TIME WITH DENGUE” are series of articles about my son’s ordeal about this subject), which in my suspicion has been infected from school, whose doors and window are not well protected with mosquito screens.
That was Wednesday when he arrived early than usual from school, he was supposed to be out from school at exactly 4pm, but he went home that day at past 12 noon complaining about being dizzy and burning hot because of fever. I gave him a paracetamol tablet for his fever but it never subsides. I could see the thermometer reads at 40.5 and 39 plus degree Celsius. So we applies water soaked towel for the fever to subside and it helps a lot. The next day the fever still persists and this calls for a bed rest. What is more aggravating is his frequent vomiting which really weakens him so much, this makes us to be alarmed that’s why we took him to his doctor the following day.
So let me conclude this article on the usual symptoms of dengue, and though it differs sometimes in a case to case basis but the pattern are all similar as per se. These symptoms seen and observed among suspected dengue infected persons were all experiencing some sort of high fever along with a feeling of general weakness, frequent vomiting and stomach pain is felt also. If you or any member of the family was seen and observed with these symptoms then medical attention is very badly needed. I then suggest that consulting a doctor and several blood and dengue test should be done to avoid the critical stage such as severe internal and external bleeding cause by shocked due to sudden dropped of blood platelets which will affect blood pressures and the worse internal complications which could result to fatalities. Dengue is fatal but when it is treated early then this will save a patient from any life threatening situation and from high cost of long period of confinement in the hospital.
Doctors today being aware of dengue are more well equip today with the knowledge on how to counter the common but fatal complications cause by dengue. As for my son case, his liver became inflame which is causing him the sensational pain in the area of the stomach, so they gave him some sort of a very expensive anti inflammatory drug to correct and amend his liver situations. His stool was monitored for possible internal colon bleeding common in critical stage among dengue patients, but thank God they found him negative. But to keep him safe he was administered with some kind of drug that will protect his stomach and colon from the effect of dengue. His blood was monitored and test daily to know its platelets counts, in case of bleeding, especially like in the case of my son who bleeds so much, blood transfusion is needed to replaced he has lost. He was also under rehydration period through the administration of I.V fluid which replaces the lost body liquid and essential nutrients during the ordeal.
Other complication varies too and it depends maybe to the weaker internal organ of a particular patient and this factor is what the doctor’s feared most. In dengue patients as observed and studied, it’s the internal organs that were affected during this dengue attack, due to the viral infected blood that passes through them. The heart, the lungs, the kidneys and other internal vital organ was among the list observed to have been affected by these diseases. And these organs could not be taken for granted for such are vital to one’s survival.
Though dengue has no particular cure, antidote or vaccine, its complications are well taken care of and checked. And no patients could be sent home if their blood platelets counts low, which means those who are below the minimum of 150 are still subject to continues closed monitoring and medications, while those who were above 150 were discharged but were advice to closely monitor the patients and a visit to his doctor for follow up test and health evaluations. This includes the blood test for the platelets and some routine checkup.
I hope this series of article about dengue will help you and someone you know. If you have read my articles and are interested for some good advices in dealing with dengue, please feel free to post your comments found in my articles bottom section, you can post them also in my facebook account by typing Arnold Maglalang in the search tab and add me as a friend or free to contact me on my email add, arnoldream@yahoo.com or arnoldream@gmail.com
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