Dengue Treatment - Procedure, Cost And Side Effect Dengue Treatment -

Dengue is the vector-borne viral infection, regarded as a severe public health problem.It is transmitted by the mosquito Aedes Egypt. Dengue is considered as the major public health concern due to increase in the frequency of dengue fever over past three decades. Every year about 390 million dengue infections are reported where 70% of 96 million cases are reported in Asia.

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Early Signs and symptom of dengue

1.Chronic fever with any of the following conditions:
● Rashes on skin
● Body pain
● Nausea with persistent vomiting
● Mucosal bleeding
● Abdominal Pain
2. Sometimes the disease became severe when the condition is asymptomatic lead to the life
threatening situation of organ impairment.
Laboratory findings
● Low platelet count below 100 000 cells/mm3
● Positive tourniquet test
● Low WBC count

see: Dengue Diagnostic test

Treatment of dengue

● Paracetamol is preferred to reduce fever but should be used with caution.
● For the treatment of diarrhoeal disease oral rehydration solution is recommended.
● Salicylates like aspirin should not be used as they increases the risk of bleeding.
● In prolonged uncontrolled shock there will be intravascular coagulation which causes
bleeding and may lead into the development of lethal shock.In such cases early and effective
replacement of plasma losses with fluid and electrolyte solution results in a favourable
outcome.
● Platelet transfusion is required when the platelet counts are below 20,000.
● If patients show signs of shock, he will be under constant and careful observation where
pulse, blood pressure and respiration should be recorded every 30 minute.
● Complete bed rest is advised until the recovery of the patient.

Cost of the dengue treatment

Corporate hospitals generally charges between in the range of Rs.10,000 to Rs.15,000 for the platelet
separation. Since the costs of platelet transfusion are not regulated and thus private hospitals are free
to charge as per their price.The Dengue Ns1 test cost varies in different parts of India between the
range of Rs600 to Rs 1200. So the total costs of dengue treatment lies in the range of Rs.25000 de-
Rs.75000 depending upon the severity.The recovery rate and safety profile of dengue treatment is
high with very low side effects.

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Side effects of the dengue treatment

There are no such side effects of the dengue treatment as the safety profile of the treatment is high. But some risks like low immunisation much dehydration ,pain due to the chronic fever will be there. If the patients treated early with all the precautionary steps increases the recovery.