Recognize The Critical Symptoms Of DB In Children Before Late, Parents Must Know

YOGYAKARTA - Dengue Fever (DB) is one of the diseases that often attacks during the rainy season. Diseases transmitted through these mosquitoes are generally prone to occur in children. In order to maintain the health of the baby, parents need to know the critical symptoms of dengue fever in children.

Dengue fever occurs due to the bite of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus female mosquitoes. Symptoms of DB generally appear a few days after mosquito bites or initially characterized by high fever.

Symptoms that arise due to dengue fever can vary depending on the phase or stage of the disease. DB disease in children has three phases that cause different symptoms and require different treatment. So what are the critical symptoms of DB in children that parents need to understand.

Dengue fever in children can occur in three phases, namely the fever, critical, and recovery phase. Parents need to understand the symptoms and treatment in each phase so that the condition of children affected by DB does not get worse. If you have reached the critical phase, the risk is higher the possibility of complications and endangers your life.

The following are the stages of dengue fever in children that parents should know:

Dengue fever in the early phase or febrile phase is characterized by high fever. The condition of this fever can reach 40 degrees Celsius and lasts two to seven days. In addition, children may also feel pain all over the body, ranging from bone, muscle, joints, head, to throat.

Another characteristic of the initial phase of dengue fever is the emergence of red spots. This condition can be a sign of a significant decrease in platelets to less than 100 thousand per blood microliter.

Decreased levels of platelets can occur in a short time, only two to three days. If the spots that appear are increasing, it means that the platelets are decreasing. Dengue virus infections are able to damage the capillary vessels in the body.

The second phase in a child's hemorrhagic fever is the critical phase. If the child has experienced this phase, parents must be vigilant. This phase may indicate that the fever has started to decline and the child looks better, but bleeding is still happening in the body.

Children who experience a critical phase can experience heart rate and fluctuating blood pressure. In more severe cases, blood pressure can drop to a very low level that disturbs vital organs such as the liver and kidney.

The critical phase condition experienced by children can be life threatening if they do not immediately get the right treatment. A critical phase can occur three to seven days after the child has a fever. This condition may also last for 24 to 48 hours.

After successfully going through a critical period, children with dengue fever will go through a recovery phase. This phase may occur within 48 to 72 hours after the critical phase. In this phase, the condition of the child will improve and the hemodynamic status (blood flow in the body's circulation system) is also stable.

When the recovery phase from DB disease, the fluid coming out of the blood vessels will also re-enter the blood vessels. In addition, the child's platelet levels will also increase rapidly to reach 150,000/microliters of blood. However, these conditions will return to normal levels.

The following are some signs or critical symptoms of DB in children that parents need to understand in order to provide proper treatment:

Such is the review of the critical symptoms of dengue fever in children that must be known by parents. Parents need to pay attention to their child's health, especially in the rainy season like now because they are very susceptible to dengue fever. Also read the news that DB cases are increasing.

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