Clinical Management

DOs and DONTs

 

 

 

DOs

  • Do record & monitor temperature every 6 hours.

  • Do take paracetamol/ace tablets only.

  • Do stay within mosquito net from Day 1 to Day 7 of fever.

  • Do watch carefully all body surface for rash.

  • Do count 72 hours (critical period) from the moment fever goes.

  • Do take & monitor blood platelet counts every 12 hours from Day 3 of fever.

  • Do move to hospital when platelet count <100.000.

  • Do take lots of fluid (water, juice, orsaline) during the critical 72 hours.

  • Do keep enough orsaline packets while travelling to Dhaka for treatment.

  • Do take & record antibody test for dengue virus twice in Day 3 & Day 14.from fever.

  • Do identify 10-20 blood donors with positive blood screen test & keep them stand by from Day 1 of hospitalisation.

  • Do take platelet transfusion when count <50.000.

 

 

DONTs

  • Don’t take aspirine.

  • Don’t get nervous.

 

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