What are the symptoms of dengue fever?

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Dengue fever is an acute infectious disease transmitted by dengue virus through Aedes mosquitoes. Patients are the main source of infection. The virus is resistant to low temperature, but not heat-resistant. If the patient is infected with this disease, it will damage the liver, kidney, heart and brain of the body. This disease has a high mortality rate and a certain threat to human health, so we must pay attention to this disease. So if you get this disease, what symptoms will you have? Let's talk about it.

What are the symptoms of dengue fever?

First of all, for patients infected with this disease, the body will have fever, and the body temperature will rise rapidly, and the onset is also relatively urgent. Within 24 hours, the body temperature will rise to 40 degrees Celsius, and this high fever will last for up to a week, and then suddenly drop to the normal temperature level.

At the same time of fever, the patient will also have headache and low back pain, especially the joint pain of the body. In serious cases, it will affect the patient's physical activities. In terms of diet, there will be loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, conjunctival bleeding, and skin flush above the chest.

Within two to five days after the onset of the disease, there will be some rashes in the body, first in the palm of the hand, and then in the soles of the feet and trunk. Generally is the spot papule or the measles like skin manifestation, if serious, can have the skin rash hemorrhage situation. About a week after the onset of the disease, patients will have gingival bleeding or hemoptysis, hematuria and other body bleeding problems.

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If the condition is severe, the patient will appear coma, a lot of sweating, and mydriasis in about five days of illness. The condition will attack rapidly, and even hemorrhagic shock will lead to death. So once you find that your body is not comfortable, you must treat it in time.