Prevention of Dengue Fever

Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever or Dengue usually attack when the rainy season. What's our country, including tropical country that is a favorite habitat for mosquitoes. This fever can be a deadly disease if not treated immediately. In particular, children often become targets 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.

    Mosquito Aedes aegypti

Outbreaks of dengue fever that drew 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 mosquitoes love with a warm environment to live.

Aedes aegypti mosquito is a carrier of the disease dengue fever virus. How its spread through mosquito bites someone who is infected with dengue virus. This virus will be carried in the mosquito salivary glands. These mosquitoes then bite a healthy person. Simultaneously with the suctioning of blood from a healthy person, hemorrhagic fever viruses also move to that person and cause healthy people were infected with dengue virus.

Dengue mosquito has a different life cycles of insects. Mosquitoes are active from early morning until around 3 pm to suck the blood that also means it can spread the dengue virus. While at night, mosquitoes are sleeping. So, beware of mosquito bites during the day and prevent mosquito bites a child who was taking a nap.

Habits 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:

• High fever continued. Temperature around 39-40 degrees Celsius. It causes headaches in people.

• Fever without a cough.

• Abdominal pain or nausea.

• Body aching or pain in the joints.

• red spots appear, but this does not always happen in every case.

If anyone in your family show these symptoms, you should immediately take to the doctor to get treatment. Do not let the fever too long because it can lead to late to help. To be more exact, you can do a blood check.

It is best to prevent it from family members affected by dengue. The actions that can be done to prevent it are:

1. To prevent mosquito breeding around us. You can do a 3M is Covering water storage drain the tub and Burying the goods are unused. Mosquito larvae will develop in a puddle of water in about a week. Therefore, it prevented the possibility of objects that is where the development of these larvae such as flower pots, tin cans, old tires or other items that hold standing water, especially during the rainy season where these places can be a puddle of rain water.

2.  Prevent mosquito bites do not, for example by using mosquito repellent lotion or medication.

3. Apply by powder Abate on sewer and water reservoirs so as not to be a breeding place for mosquitoes.

4. Keep conditions remain healthy. Conditions 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’t be considered a mild disease. This disease can cause death Thus, precautions and always be vigilant against the disease can protect those you love from the dangers of dengue fever or dengue.