Dengue fever and disease severity.
Although most patients with dengue fever recover on their own, symptoms should be closely monitored because this type of virus causes inflammation in multiple organs and also causes large amounts of fluid to leak out of the blood vessels, resulting in less blood supply to various organs. Patients with severe symptoms must receive prompt treatment, such as:
- There is an infection of the meninges.
- There is bleeding in various organs, such as the digestive tract and brain.
- Shock occurs when there is insufficient blood flow to the organs.
- Respiratory failure due to fluid leaking into the lungs
- Liver failure caused by viral inflammation and insufficient blood supply.
Dengue fever, the more it recurs, the more severe the symptoms become.
The reason why patients with dengue fever who get it again have more severe symptoms than the first time is because when infected the first time. The body will create immunity only for the strain that was infected and the immunity will gradually decrease.
Therefore, when there is a second infection. But it is a different strain, the remaining immunity will be confused and will not able to eliminate the virus well enough or not in time. It has also been found that in some cases, the immunity that use protective shield has turned to promote the virus to stronger and spread more. Causing the second infection to have more severe symptoms than before.
Dengue vaccine: The answer to prevention and reduction of severity
Because at present there is no specific medicine for treating dengue fever, the treatment that can be done is supportive according to สมัครสมาชิก UFABET วันนี้ รับเครดิตฟรีทุกวัน the symptoms and severity that occur. Dengue vaccination is therefore a prevention of both infection and severity of the disease. At present, Thailand has a dengue vaccine that can prevent all 4 strains of dengue virus with the following effectiveness.
- Prevents infection by 65.6%
- Prevents disease severity by 93.2%
- Reduce hospitalization rate by 80.8%