The number of weekly dengue fever cases tends to increase rapidly
Recently, the City Children's Hospital received treatment for a boy named M.K (12 years old, Ho Chi Minh City) with dengue shock on a body of overweight and obese with a weight of 83kg.
K had a high fever for 3 consecutive days. On the 4th day, the child had a stomachache, vomited from the brown pig disease, and cold hands and feet, so the family took him to the hospital.
Patient K was diagnosed with severe dengue shock on the 4th day, blood clotting disorder, gastrointestinal bleeding, liver damage, severe respiratory failure in overweight and obese children. After nearly 7 days of treatment, K gradually recovered, was alert, breathed air on his own, and liver and kidney function returned to normal.
According to Dr. Nguyen Minh Tien - Deputy Director of the City Children's Hospital, referring to world medicine and through treatment of many cases of dengue shock, cases often progress severely and abnormally, causing difficulties in treatment such as obese children and newborns. Symptoms of early dengue shock (day 3 and 4 of the disease), high blood concentration.
Through this case, Dr. Tien noted that parents should see their children early if they have a high fever for more than 2 days. At the same time, it is necessary to pay attention to a reasonable diet according to age, best advised by a nutritionist to avoid the risk of excess weight and obesity.
According to the report of the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC), in week 27 (June 30 - July 6), the whole city recorded 838 cases of dengue fever, an increase of 43 cases compared to the previous week. Accumulated in the first 27 weeks of the year, Ho Chi Minh City has recorded 14,370 cases of dengue fever, an increase of 153.3% over the same period in 2024.
Monitoring data shows that Ho Chi Minh City is entering the peak of the rainy season, with favorable environmental conditions for disease-carrying mosquitoes to develop. The number of cases per week tends to increase rapidly and spread to the area.
If the work of controlling outbreaks and killing mosquito larvae is not maintained regularly, the risk of forming secondary infection chains is very high, which can put great pressure on the treatment system, especially at children's hospitals and grassroots hospitals.
Proactively prevent, detect early, and handle thoroughly
HCDC information compares with the period of 2019 - 2022, major epidemics have occurred from mid-June to late August. This is also a time when the city needs to be especially vigilant.
With the trend of increasing cases during the rainy season, Ho Chi Minh City continues to proactively identify prevention, early detection, and thorough handling. This is a key solution to control dengue fever.
In particular, during the peak month of disease prevention and control, close coordination between the government, health sector and the community will determine the effectiveness of disease control and health protection for people in the remaining peak months of 2025.
The city's health sector continues to closely monitor the dengue epidemic situation to warn and promptly implement disease prevention measures, in order to protect public health and reduce the number of dengue fever cases.
In the face of complicated developments, the city's health sector recommends that people not be subjective, continue to strictly implement epidemic prevention and control measures at households, communities and public facilities as follows:
- Drowning the mosquitoes by finding and removing water containing items that the Aedes mosquito can lay eggs for.
- kill mosquitoes and prevent mosquito bites by measures such as sleeping on the stomach, using mosquito spray, mosquito racket...
- When you have a fever, go to a medical facility immediately for examination and treatment advice, do not self-treat at home.
- Actively coordinate with the health sector in drug and vaccine campaigns and chemical sprayings to prevent and control epidemics.
- When detecting a location at risk of lentils causing dengue fever, people quickly report the address to the online Health application.
