Dengue Symptoms

Based on my personal experience when my daughter has dengue, symptoms may vary depending on individual.

During dengue, my daughter experience sore throats, and slight urinary tract infection, on and off.  We thought that it is just tonsillitis since there is slight redness in her throat.  Her pedia never realized that it is a sign of dengue since there is no headache and loss of appetite. She just prescribed antibiotics. After four days, she experience abdominal pain and then at the five days, she have rashes. So she rushed to the hospital and have dengue test and turn out positive.   She diagnosed dengue stage 2 since there is a bleeding of veins that’s why she has rashes.

Some other dengue symptoms include headache, vomiting, loss of appetite, severe muscle and joint pain, exhaustion and swollen lymph nodes.  In later stage, there is a gum bleeding, red palms and soles, red lips, pain behind the eyes, low heart rate bradycardia, low blood pressure or hypotension.

There is no medicine or antibiotic for dengue virus.  The only medicine taken is the relief of the symptoms of dengue such as fever, headache, and other pains. As of now, there is no vaccine or cure for dengue.