DENGUE AND ITS HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINE
Dengue fever is an acute, infectious, commonest arboviral disease.
Cause
It is caused by the bite of infective, female, Aedes mosquito.
Transmitted from person to person.
Age incidence- common in young children and adult.
Clinical Feature
High fever
Sudden onset
Hepatomegaly
Sweating
Hypothermia
Low blood pressure
Narrowing of pulse pressure
Increased pulse rate
Rapid and weak pulse
Cold clammy skin
Restlessness
Hemorrhagic - epistaxis, bleeding, hematemesis, malena, gingival bleeding.
Investigation
Platelet count is <100000cells/mm
Hematocrit value is increased
ELISA test
Management
Avoid IV fluids till the evidence of hemorrhage
Avoid blood transfusion till hematocrit falls
Antibiotics and steroids not necessary
Isolation of patient in a mosquito net or mosquito proof room, because the viruses are circulating in the blood during first 3 to 5 days of illness and the aedes mosquito are the day biters. The mosquito are capable of transmitting the infection soon after blood meal. Using mosquito curtain prevent the further transmission from the patients.
Salicylate must be avoid, because they may cause bleeding.
Immunization - a live tetravalent cell culture vaccine against 4 serotype of types of dengue virus.
Breaking the channel of transmission.
Homoeopathic Medicine for Dengue
- Eupatorium per
- Aconitum
- Bell
- Bry
- Gel
Eupatorium per
It is best suited remedy for fever. The leading character is violent, aching, bone breaking pain.
Patient is restless, chilly.
Perspiration relieving all symptoms except headache.
Chill between 7 to 9 A.M, preceded by thirst with great soreness and aching of bones.
Nausea and vomiting of bile at close of chill or hot stage, throbbing headache.
Knows chill is coming on because he can not drink enough.
It is very useful in febrile disease like dengue, malaria, influenza.
Bone pains, general and severe.
Weakness.
Useful in broken down constitution.
Worse - periodically.
Better by conversation, by getting on hand and knees.
Aconite
First remedy in inflammation and inflammatory fevers.
Aconite is acute , sudden and violent invasion with fever, call for it.
Physical and mental restlessness.
A stage of fear, anxiety anguish of mind and body.
Cold stage most marked.
Cold sweat and icy coldness of face.
Coldness and heat alternate.
Evening chill soon after going to bed.
Cold waves pass through him.
Thirst and restless always present.
Chilly if uncovered and touched.
Dry heat, red face.
Most valuable febrile with mental anguish, restlessness.
Sweat drenching, on parts lain on relieving all symptoms.
Modalities - Better in open air
Worse - in warm room, in evening and night, worse lying on affected side, from tobacco- smoke, dry, cold winds.
Belledona
Belledona stands for violence of attack and suddenness of onset.
A high fever state with comparative Abscence of toxaemia.
Burning, steaming, heat.
Feet icy cold.
Superficial blood vessels, distended.
Perspiration dry only on head.
No thirst with fever.
Bryonia
Pulse full, hard, tense and quick.
Chill with external coldness.
Dry cough and stitching.
Internal heat.
Sour sweat after slight exertion.
Easy profuse perspiration.
Rheumatic and typhoid marked by gastro hepatic complications.
Worse- warmth, any motion, morning, evening, hot weather excertion, touch, can not sit up, getting faint and sick.
Better on lying and painful side, pressure, rest, cold things.
Gels
Wants to be held, because be shaker so pulse slow, full, soft, compressible, chilliness up and down back.
Heat and sweat stage, long and exhausting, Dumb ague, with much muscular soreness, great prostration, and violent headache.
Nervous chill, bilious remittent fever, with stupor, dizziness, faintness, thirstless, prostrated.
Chill without thirst, along spine, wave like, extending upward from sacrum to occiput.
The selection of homoeopathic remedies based on symptom similarities and doses according to the Susceptibility of patient.
Don't take homoeopathic medicine without any prescription / without any advise of physician
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