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What are symptom of dengue? How it is caused? What are necessary steps should be taken to maintain blood platelets in dengue?
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Dengue Fever is Caused due to the bite of an infected female aedes aegypti mosquito, the disease can be fatal if Dengue Hemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome developed Once bitten it takes about 3-10 days for the symptoms to appear. The most common symptoms are ? 1.High fever 2.Severe Headache 3.Pain behind the eyes 4.Nausea and vomiting 5.Swollen lymph node 6.Muscle and Joint Pain 7.Exhaustion 8.Skin rash Platelet count rises by its own in few days once infection are treated and in emergency case when platelet count are very low we need to transfuse platelet to Patient
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