Speaking about Dengue there is always the doubt when considering a person with some acute febrile illness as a case suspected dengue. Correlating the Dengue symptoms O Ministry of Health together with the Health Secretaries and the medical consider as a suspected case of Dengue any person who presents fever of sudden onset, usually high, lasting up to 7 days, accompanied by two or more symptoms below:
- Headache;
- Pain behind the eyes;
- Myalgias (pain in the muscles);
- Arthralgias (joint pain);
- Prostate (tiredness, weakness);
- Exanthema (reddened skin lesions - as if all skin were painted with a red pen).
The signals and symptons described above may or may not be associated with the occurrence of some type of bleeding or bleeding and the person must have been (live or have traveled) in the last 15 days, somewhere transmission of Dengue or has the presence of the mosquito Aedes aegypti.
This person should look for a health Service, clinic or your covenant doctor or medical plan and be submitted to a medical evaluation which will do the diagnosis correct the disease and if necessary to submit the patient to the exams for confirmation or exclusion of a suspected case of Dengue. In addition to the guidance and appropriate treatment for each case and according to the severity of the symptoms.
