The City Children's Hospital has just treated a 5-year-old girl (Dong Nai) with severe dengue shock.
Exploiting the medical history, the child had high fever for 2 consecutive days. On the third day of the disease, the child showed abdominal pain, vomiting from brown pig disease, black stool, cold hands and feet, so the family took the child to a local hospital. The child was diagnosed with severe dengue shock syndrome on the 3rd day and actively treated with anti-shock fluids.
However, the child's condition worsened and he was transferred to the City Children's Hospital. Here, the child was diagnosed with severe dengue shock on day 3, blood clotting disorder, gastrointestinal bleeding, severe liver damage, and severe respiratory failure. After about 10 days of treatment, the child gradually recovered, was taken off the ventilator, was alert, and liver and kidney function returned to normal.
Doctor Nguyen Minh Tien - Deputy Director of the City Children's Hospital recommends that parents should be vigilant during the rainy season, with thriving mosquitoes and Aedes mosquitoes, and dengue fever attacking children as well as adults.
Parents need to pay attention to implementing disease prevention measures such as mosquito control, mosquito larvae, cleaning water containers, sleeping on a mattress, wearing long pants, and hand-held shirts to avoid mosquito bites.
When seeing a child with a high fever for more than 2 days, it is necessary to take the child to the hospital immediately if he has one of the following signs: cracked, wheezing or lethargy, lethargy, refreshing speech; bleeding, bleeding or vomiting, black stools; abdominal pain, vomiting; cold hands and feet; sluggishness, lying in one place without playing or quitting to feed, stopping eating.
Currently, there is a dengue fever vaccine for children aged 4 and over and adults and parents should consider vaccinating their children to effectively prevent the disease.
The City Children's Hospital also recommends that despite being warned many times, each dengue fever epidemic season still records many serious cases. The worrying thing is not only the rapid and unpredictable progression of the disease, but also the subjectivity, confusion and mistreatment of many parents from the very beginning.
The Ho Chi Minh City health sector calls on each citizen to proactively take measures to prevent dengue fever to prevent outbreaks.
