How to Save Yourself From DENGUE

This fever is caused due to the bite of a specific type of mosquito. What’ special about this mosquito is it has white and black stripes on its body, and its bites only in the day time.

Identification of the disease

The attendance of virus of this disease in the body can only be ascertained through Blood test in the laboratory

Indications

The specific indications of this disease include fever with

• Pain in back, body and joints
• Presence of spots on the body
• Pain in eyeballs
• Shortage of white cells in the blood
• Severe headache , cold and flu
• In case of serious illness, blood may be emitted from different parts of body like mouth and the nose

Treatment

This disease neither has a specific cure nor a vaccine available. Therefore as soon as there are any such indications, give the patient as much liquids as possible and contact the nearest health center.

Precautionary Measure

• Keep your home and office protected against mosquitoes
• Keep home and office airy, bright and safe from moisture
• Fix nets on doors and windows
• Wear full sleeves clothes
• Use mosquito nets while sleeping
• Don’t leave the overhead tanks open
• Don’t keep water in containers for more then a week. instead , empty them every week, let them dry and then fill again
• Don’t let the water falling from the overhead tanks to accumulate permentally, instead dry it
• Don’t let the water accumulate in any case both inside or outside the home
• Be mindful of your home and mohallah’s clearness
• Keep the fence and hedge boundaries duly cut both inside and outside the home , and spray over them with insecticide, particularly in evening
• Don’t let the water stay all the time in the flowers pots, gamlas of plants; instead water them only in the morning every alternate day.

Please remember.

This is neither hereditary nor epidemic disease.