Dengue fever.

[Gandtee]

Have any posters suffered from Dengue fever and used home remedies to overcome it and by what remedy? 

[Swiss1960]

I would NOT recommend that. Depending on how low your red blood platelet count will fall, you might be in serious, life threatening situation and bumping into something that you would normally not even realize might lead to uncontrollable (internal) bleeding.
- daughter was in hospital for one week and not allowed to leave the bed without 2 nurses at her side.
- I was allowed to stay home (low but manageable blood counts) with daily blood checks and only medicine for keeping fever down.

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[Gandtee]

2 minutes ago, Swiss1960 said:

I would NOT recommend that. Depending on how low your red blood platelet count will fall, you might be in serious, life threatening situation and bumping into something that you would normally not even realize might lead to uncontrollable (internal) bleeding.
- daughter was in hospital for one week and not allowed to leave the bed without 2 nurses at her side.
- I was allowed to stay home (low but manageable blood counts) with daily blood checks and only medicine for keeping fever down.

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I don't have dengue. Just curious about different reports of treatment in case I'm unfortunate to get it. There are quite a lot of remedies online but I wanted to hear of first-hand experiences.

[xylophone]

9 minutes ago, Gandtee said:

I don't have dengue. Just curious about different reports of treatment in case I'm unfortunate to get it. There are quite a lot of remedies online but I wanted to hear of first-hand experiences.

Bed rest, plenty of fluids and pain killers such as paracetamol. My experience after being checked at the hospital, and a 2 day stay.

[KittenKong]

I know a couple of people who have had this. Nasty business and they looked half-dead for weeks.

 

[Pilotman]

I caught it some 12 years back, ironically, probably after being bitten in a 5 star hotel in Bangkok. I was flying back to the UK the next day.  I started to develop flu like systems, that got steadily worse as the flight progressed, high temperature and all my body shaking and hurting. Both knees, one ankle and one wrist were impacted badly.  It was horrendous. I got home to the UK in hell of a state, ended up in the ER and had my joints drained of the fluid build up. But it took a blood test to confirm the diagnosis. To cut a long story short, I was confined to my bed, unable to walk properly, for 3 weeks and off work for 7 weeks. I was on high does of Tramadol  and Diclofenic for over 2 years. They caused their own issues when I came off them.  I ended up with considerable joint damage, which needed some surgery, the effects of which I feel to this day. It is not to be taken lightly.  Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to actively avoid. 

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[phetphet]

Had it and spent a week in hospital on a drip. Took about three or four months before I actually felt I was over it. Left me feeling constantly tired.

 

Doctor told me there are four strains, and that I am immune to one for a while. But if I get it a second time it will be a lot worse.

 

As for natural remedies, they say the juice from the leaves from a papaya tree is effective.

[Kwasaki]

29 minutes ago, phetphet said:

Doctor told me there are four strains, and that I am immune to one for a while. But if I get it a second time it will be a lot worse.

Posted only briefly my experience before on dengue fever on a health insurance thread and was told different by a specialist doctor.

Basically full story was I was feeling ill for about a week thought I had the flu, so tried to drown it in beer & scotch.

I ended up getting worse bleeding badly from the mouth and collapsed, put in back of family car, off to private hospital is was there they didn't know what was wrong but the problem was I needed blood which they didn't have.

They told my wife I would not have long so she got their ambulance to take me to Gov hospital emergency I don't remember after that, I'm told I was vomiting a lot of blood, was attached to many pipes, given injections and died but they brought me back, remember then my Mrs shouting don't leave me and becoming conscious.

Whow I've known of more pain than this before but I was on the mend.

After tests was diagnosed as having the worse of many strains of dengue fever, I survived because of my strong heart I'm told and further good news was if I got it again I have some immunity towards it but I don't wanna test that theory out.

  

[xylophone]

3 hours ago, Pilotman said:

I caught it some 12 years back, ironically, probably after being bitten in a 5 star hotel in Bangkok. I was flying back to the UK the next day.  I started to develop flu like systems, that got steadily worse as the flight progressed, high temperature and all my body shaking and hurting. Both knees, one ankle and one wrist were impacted badly.  It was horrendous. I got home to the UK in hell of a state, ended up in the ER and had my joints drained of the fluid build up. But it took a blood test to confirm the diagnosis. To cut a long story short, I was confined to my bed, unable to walk properly, for 3 weeks and off work for 7 weeks. I was on high does of Tramadol  and Diclofenic for over 2 years. They caused their own issues when I came off them.  I ended up with considerable joint damage, which needed some surgery, the effects of which I feel to this day. It is not to be taken lightly.  Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to actively avoid. 

Jeez, 

 

Your and my experiences are the opposite ends of the spectrum, because although the headache was "vice like" and the backache was a killer, really nothing else to compare it to your experience. 

 

Although I will say that I felt very tired for 3 to 4 weeks and don't think I really got over it for about two months in all.

[Pilotman]

17 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Jeez, 

 

Your and my experiences are the opposite ends of the spectrum, because although the headache was "vice like" and the backache was a killer, really nothing else to compare it to your experience. 

 

Although I will say that I felt very tired for 3 to 4 weeks and don't think I really got over it for about two months in all.

hits people in different ways I guess. I would not wish it on anyone.  

[LosLobo]

4 hours ago, Pilotman said:

I caught it some 12 years back, ironically, probably after being bitten in a 5 star hotel in Bangkok. I was flying back to the UK the next day.  I started to develop flu like systems, that got steadily worse as the flight progressed, high temperature and all my body shaking and hurting......

 

Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to actively avoid. 

Dengue generally has an incubation period of 4-10 days before symptoms appear.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dengue-and-severe-dengue

 

How to actively avoid Dengue :

https://thethaiger.com/thai-life/top-10-ways-avoid-dengue-fever

 

 

 

[Pravda]

One thing that scares me here is tuberculosis. It's more common than people think.

 

Some people from wife's work have gotten it.