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Hospitals record dengue patients

Dengue, a tropical viral fever, has staged a comeback with the onset of monsoon as the health ministry began recording patients with the fever in last two months.
At least eight people were identified having infected with dengue in the capital in this season, said officials of National Crisis Management Centre and Control Room of the Directorate General of Health Services on Monday.
The health experts said monsoon rain is providing a favourable breeding environment for Aedes mosquito that carries the virus.
‘We have started getting reports from different hospitals that dengue infected people started admitting there,’ said Benazir Ahmed, director, diseases control at DGHS told New Age.
‘But the incidence of the infection is still less,’ he said. ‘Due to recent cyclone storm Mohasen, all potential dengue eggs were washed away, and that is why the infection rate is less this year.’
Benazir said rainwater trapped in potholes or containers left in yards and places around dwellings were providing the breeding ground for Aedes mosquito.
Houses and yards should be kept clean and objects like abandoned pots, containers, old tyres and coconut shells that could trap rainwater should be removed, health experts said.
Generally, Aedes mosquito bites in the daytime, but they also often bite at night, the experts said.
The breeding of Aedes mosquitoes takes about 10 days, said Benazir. ‘So people should clean their houses and their surroundings at least once a week in monsoon.’
It could check spread of the infection considerably, he said.
Benazir said they had organised campaigns in 10 zones of city corporations where the city corporation staffs motivated the community people to clean stagnant rain water and surroundings of their houses every week.
Experts said patients having fever for more than three days with pale pink rash on skin should visit a doctor.
‘No antibiotic is required to treat dengue patients. But temperature should be kept under control by taking paracetamol and sponging the body,’ Ahmed said.
‘But taking painkillers could be dangerous for dengue patients,’ he said.
Last year, 641 dengue cases were reported by hospitals in Dhaka city while in 2011, some 1,350 dengue cases were reported. 

 

 

 

Source : The New Age