Dengue Fever

2LeftFeet,

DENGUE FEVER IS NO JOKE. Please do not tell me that you are trying to find out if you have it or not by reading about the symptons.

YOU MUST GO TO A DOCTOR RIGHT NOW even if you suspect you have it. While I was ill in the DR they brought in a 16 year old boy and he died the next day. Why? because his parents didn't have the means to hospitalize him. They waited until the last minute.

PLEASE GO TO A DOC PLEASEEEEEEE!!!

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2LeftFeet said:

I went to the doctor. I'm being treated. Which there is no treatment. It's suffering!!! That's the treatment. I'm going for a bunch of tests today. THank God I'm at the end of it. If it is it it's the milder bone breaking form--not the bleeding type.

We're trying to figure where I could have gotten it. Both places have it.

Thanks for your concern.

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i had the milder type aroun 6mts ago.was definitly bitten out in sabanetta(cabarete)then was down in sto.domg for a few days.i was at the tail end of a very bad flu but woke up one evening with the really high fever and aching from head to toe.
i took some asprin to try and break the fever but it dident work.after i was cured i read a pamplet that said it was DANGEROUS to take asprin while sick.
as you said there is no cure only rest and fluids and an ingredient that begins with a(something like asphetemen?).its found in advil.yes,plain old advil.
i went to a pharmacy(delerious)and explaind my symptoms and this is what the pharmacist recomended.within 20 minutes my fever had gone down and so too the muscle aches.
i contuned with the advil,3 sachets of two pills every day for 3 days and it then went away.
thanks be to God it did as i dont have medical insurance.its a bloody horrible sickness and i thought i was on my way out with the fever.i felt so bad i wouldent have really minded.
so give the advil a try.it saved my @zz.

manunut said:

as you said there is no cure only rest and fluids and an ingredient that begins with a(something like asphetemen?).its found in advil.yes,plain old advil.

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That would be acetaminofen (in spanish). If I'm not mistaken it's what you find in Tylenol or similar medicin and on the news they mentioned that it's the best stuff you can take for Dengue.

KateP said:

That would be acetaminofen (in spanish). If I'm not mistaken it's what you find in Tylenol or similar medicin and on the news they mentioned that it's the best stuff you can take for Dengue.

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acetaminofeno is also known as paracetamol

I had a bad bout of dengue fever two years ago. Later, I found out that in a neighboring community (Los Mangos de Cuca) dengue fever had caused several fatalities. However, the local health authorities never informed the families of the deceased the cause of their deaths, or how to protect themselves from the disease (mosquito nets, sealing water containers, avoidance of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) to treat fever, etc.

Toradol is the standard treatment (along with IV fluids) for the more severe forms of Dengue (I luckily survived the hemmorhagic form several years ago- probably because I was already taking oral Toradol for an existing condition).
By the time I was appropriately diagnosed the virus was already out of my system so didn't show up on the blood tests (it only hangs around for 5 days so if it's longer than that it won't be found in the blood) however my platelet levels as well as my appearance were a dead give away for the very experienced Dr. who finally diagnosed it properly and immediately commenced the treatment that probably saved my life.
There are outbreaks in almost every area of the DR at various times during the year depending a lot on rainfall patterns although Santo Domingo is a hot spot almost all year round.

I've had non-hemorrhagic dengue three times, once in Asia, twice in Puerto Rico. A definitive test did not exist. It's the double peak fever that defines it, if you're also in a zone where many similar are being reported and the right mosquitos exist there. "Break-bone" fever is the West Indian name, and it's a good one. It's not usually fatal except in old and infirm and infants, if it's hemorrhagic. It just feels fatal. It may be confused with some para-typhoids, even cholera, which I've also had -- it's the double peaked fever that tells.
The real danger is in having something ultimately worse for your system but thinking you had dengue and not treating it.