Children hospitalized for dengue shock
The City Children's Hospital has just saved the life of patient N (11 years old, Binh Chanh district, overweight) who suffered from severe dengue shock with complications of respiratory failure and blood clotting disorder. By the morning of the 4th day, the child had a reduced fever but had a stomachache, vomited 3-4 times, cold hands and feet, and was tired. Patient N was taken to the hospital by her family. The child was diagnosed with dengue shock syndrome on the 4th, and treated with anti-shock fluids according to the protocol. After that, the condition did not improve, children had respiratory failure, blood clotting disorder, and digestive bleeding.
According to Dr. Nguyen Minh Tien - Deputy Director of the City Children's Hospital, due to the patient's early shock and prolonged symptoms of deep shock, the child was given the correct fluid according to the regimen but the condition progress was complicated, causing many complications such as abdominal and lung rashes, causing severe respiratory failure. Patient N was placed in the tracheal tube to help breathe, had severe blood clotting disorder, gastrointestinal bleeding, was given blood, frozen huyet tuong, and thickened platelets.
The respiratory failure did not improve, so the abdominal fluid was collected. After 1 week of treatment, N's condition improved, he was taken off the ventilator, breathed air, was alert, and could eat and drink.
Dr. Tien said that in the early 2025 period, unseasonal rains will often occur, creating favorable conditions for Aedes mosquitoes to develop, causing dengue fever for children and adults. Parents should note to increase mosquito control, mosquito larvae, remove containers such as bottles, offerings, flower pots, rice boxes, car shells, etc.
Recorded at Children's Hospital 2, many children were hospitalized for dengue fever, including one who was hospitalized for dengue shock. The 8-year-old patient (District 12) was hospitalized in a state of hemorrhagic shock, prolonged high fever, low blood pressure, and symptoms of huyet away.
Before that, the child had a fever at home for many days and was taken to a private clinic by his family for examination, but the disease did not subside. After 3 days of active treatment and anti-shock fluids, the patient's health improved.
Many measures to control and prevent the spread of the epidemic
According to the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control, the number of weekly dengue fever cases in the first weeks of 2025 exceeded the level of the previous year and compared to the average of the previous 3 years. This signals the risk of the epidemic breaking out earlier in the coming time.
As of the 7th week of 2025, the whole city has recorded 3,431 cases of dengue fever. This figure is 125.3% higher than the same period in 2024 and up 49.3% compared to the average period in 2022-2024. Forecasts from the Ho Chi Minh City health sector show that the dengue fever epidemic in 2025 is likely to arrive earlier than in 2024, requiring proactiveness and determination in disease prevention.
In this situation, Ho Chi Minh City has increased monitoring, investigation and handling of cases and outbreaks, while strictly controlling high-risk points.
