While confirmed cases of the disease intensify, the fight against the transmitting mosquito continues at slow steps.
The Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare urges people to go to the nearest health service if symptoms appear, such as high fever or severe pain. They remember that self-medication could make it difficult to detect other symptoms.
In the case of patients with underlying diseases such as diabetes, hypertension or heart problems, whose symptoms can be aggravated by the disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, they clarify that the treatment must be more rigorous.
Depending on the symptoms they present, doctors will decide if hospitalization or return home is necessary. While those who suffer from severe dengue need emergency treatment.
People have to go to health services if they present some of the warning signs such as high fever, more intense pain, significant headache, retro-ocular pain, joint pain, muscle and/or bone pain.
Likewise, rash (skin eruptions) on most parts of the body appear between the fifth and seventh day, at the end of the viremia period.
The viremia phase of dengue or the presence of the virus in the blood is four to seven days, a period in which the affected person can transmit the disease through the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
Vomiting, abdominal pain, mucous membrane bleeding, drowsiness, extreme weakness are also warning signs; in this case, seek urgent medical attention.
In this critical phase, warning signs may appear and generate rapid clinical deterioration of the person, which can occur within 48 hours after the fever subsides or disappears (between three and seven days after the onset of fever). .