What is dengue fever?

More and more people should have heard about cases related to dengue fever. As an infectious disease, dengue fever has a great impact on the patient's body, and there are also many cases of death caused by dengue fever. From the perspective of the population infected with dengue fever, the elderly and infants are much more likely to be infected with dengue fever because these people have relatively low immunity. The following article explains the relevant knowledge about dengue fever.

1. Dengue fever has a certain seasonality, generally occurring from May to November each year, and the peak is generally from July to September. In newly epidemic areas, people are generally susceptible to infection. However, this disease mainly occurs in adults, while in endemic areas, the disease mainly occurs in children. Moreover, dengue fever is a self-limiting infectious disease with a usually good prognosis. Most of the deaths are severe patients.

2 Dengue fever has an incubation period, which is generally 3 to 14 days, with an average of 4 to 7 days. Clinically, dengue fever can be divided into typical, mild and severe types. The onset is very sudden, causing patients to have high fever, headache, severe muscle, bone and joint pain. Some patients may also experience rash, bleeding tendency, swollen lymph nodes, decreased white blood cell count, thrombocytopenia, etc.

3 Of course, there are ways to prevent dengue fever. Mosquito prevention and control is one of the most basic measures. We must improve our sanitary environment, eliminate the breeding grounds of Aedes mosquitoes, and clean up stagnant water regularly. Spray mosquito repellents and other methods to kill adult mosquitoes. If these symptoms appear, go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time to avoid worsening of the disease, which will be more difficult to cure and may even endanger your life.

Mosquitoes bring a lot of harm, so you should pay more attention to avoid being bitten in the summer. Doing physical exercise at appropriate times can improve your disease resistance. You should improve your physical fitness and have a balanced diet. During the dengue fever epidemic, people who are susceptible to this disease should apply mosquito repellent.