Symptoms of dengue fever or dengue and typhoid have some similarities. Both diseases are characterized by a fever that is high enough to disrupt the activities of the sufferer. If one know the type of illness can cause errors in the handling of patients, it can even cause death. What are the differences between dengue fever and typhoid fever?
Cause Disease
Hemorrhagic Fever
Hemorrhagic fever caused by dengue virus, which is why this disease is also called Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever is shortened to DHF. There are four types of Dengue virus, which is why in some cases of dengue fever patients who showed symptoms of a different one with another dengue fever patients. The disease is transmitted from one patient to another patient through the aedes aegypti mosquito. These mosquitoes usually bite during the daytime. Mosquitoes which suck the blood of DHF patients and healthy bite other people to make a virus that is moving to a healthy person and would cause the person suffering from Dengue Fever.
Typhus disease
Typhus is caused by bacteria called Salmonella typhi. Bacteria have evolved rapidly in the places that are dirty. The spread of these bacteria is supported by the insects carrying bacteria such as flies and other insects. These bacteria can exist in food or drink and will go into the body of people who consume it. That causes a person may have typhoid.
Parts of the body is often attacked
Scarlet fever
Dengue virus causes bleeding in body organs of patients. Red spots usually appear in patients showed bleeding in his body. If it is severe, bleeding may occur in vital organs that can cause death.
Typhus disease
Typhoid bacteria attack the intestine, causing injury to the intestine. Furthermore, we will attack the liver, spleen and gall bladder.
Symptom
Scarlet fever
In patients with dengue fever, symptoms commonly encountered are:
o high heat, usually> 38 degrees Celsius.
o Body aches or muscle aches, headache, chills, waste water or vomiting.
o Appears red spots. These symptoms may not appear if only briefly experienced fever. I view these red spots with tourniquet test is by clamping the blood vessels a bit like when you want to check blood pressure. After this stage, usually a red dot will appear.
o After the third day, usually fever will come down and the patient may feel better but after that fever can strike back. In this period should be careful not to assume had recovered and did not maintain his health.
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In patients with typhoid fever, the symptoms are as follows:
o Initially, experienced fever is not too high and the temperature will continue to increase gradually up to> 38 degrees Celsius.
o Especially at night, the temperature will increase and will go down in the morning. This is what distinguishes typhoid fever with dengue fever.
o abdominal pain and diarrhea.
o Cough and sore throat.
Examination
The most accurate way to tell if someone is suffering from dengue fever or typhoid is to conduct the examination. Consult with your doctor and usually to be sure, the doctor will ask for blood tests. By taking the patient's blood can be known for certain what the illness suffered.
Scarlet fever
In dengue patients, the examination conducted by examining platelet count. If thrombocyte decline, usually <100.000/ul, someone will be diagnosed with dengue fever. However, if the fever is just one day not known because the platelet count is still normal. In cases like this, you can pay a visit back to the doctor to check if the platelet count was still having fever. At a more sophisticated examination, it is known whether the blood contains dengue virus or not. So, if the platelet count was normal but on the positive blood contains dengue virus means that you have dengue fever.
Typhus
To find out if you have typhoid or not, it will be done Widal test. Examined in this test is whether the blood contains antibodies to the bacteria Salmonella typhi. If the results indicate> 1 / 160 means you are suffering from typhoid fever. Other tests can be done by examining the feces patients because patients with typhoid fever in the feces containing the bacteria Salmonella typhi.
Treatment
Scarlet fever
There is no specific drug to treat dengue fever sufferers because there is no vaccine for dengue viruses. This can be done is by keeping the patient is not dehydrated. If patients can not eat well, experiencing diarrhea or vomiting, it's worth hospitalized patients in order to be assisted by infusion so that more people with strong resistance. In patients with dengue fever there is no food taboos.
Typhus
For the treatment of typhoid fever, will usually be given antibiotics to kill bacteria. To heal the wounds the intestines, the food you eat should not be working hard in order not to force the ailing gut. Team rice or porridge to sufferers of food consumed. Avoid too sour and spicy food.
How to Prevention
Scarlet fever
As is often echoed, to prevent, especially mecegah aedes aegypti mosquito breeding which is the means of transmission of dengue fever is to perform three movements M. The definition of M is the third movement of the bath drain at least once a week, closed water reservoirs, and bury the former goods unused potential to become a place of rain puddles.
Typhus
Meanwhile, to prevent typhoid is to keep the environment clean so that bacteria can not breed typhoid. Choose foods and beverages for consumption net.
In addition, it is important to maintain body condition stay fit. With a strong immune system prevent disease or dengue hemorrhagic fever and typhoid befall us.
(from various sources)
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