Yellow fever is a serious infectious disease that can be transmitted by the bite of types of mosquitoes of the genus Aedes Aegypti, responsible for other infectious diseases such as dengue or Zika, Haemagogus Sabethes.
This disease causes symptoms such as abdominal pain, headache and pain, and even without specific treatment, your symptoms may be relieved by the use of certain medications indicated by your doctor.
Yellow fever symptoms appear 3 to 6 days after mosquito bite, characterizing the acute phase of infection.
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After the acute phase, symptoms may go away for 1 to 2 days, but other severe symptoms appear quickly, such as yellow eyes, bloody vomiting, severe abdominal pain, which can be life-threatening and characterize the toxic phase of moorish yellow.
In the case of suspected yellow fever, it is important to go quickly to the emergency room for a blood test and confirm the presence of the virus, and it is also recommended not to take any medicines at home, as it may contain substances that prevent symptoms of the disease.
All cases of yellow fever should be reported to health authorities as it is an easily transmitted disease, at high risk of causing an outbreak.
Treatment of yellow fever should be guided by a family doctor and usually only helps relieve symptoms of the disease, such as fever, headache, nausea and vomiting.
For this reason, it is recommended to stay at home, avoiding going to school at work, as well as ingesting 2 liters of water, coconut water, homemade serum or oral rehydration, which can be purchased in pharmacies, to avoid dehydration caused. Vomiting.
Because there is no specific medicine to treat yellow fever, your doctor may indicate that treatment is successful depending on your individual’s symptoms. Ribavirin is a drug that acts in the liver and gives good results, works to cure the disease, but has to be used as an injection and in some countries can only be obtained as an injection. pill, for which it is not usually indicated. .
Medications your doctor may recommend to your person to recover faster:
Medications containing aspirin are not recommended as they can cause bleeding and death, such as dengue. Some medications for yellow fever AAS, aspirin, Doril and Calmador. Learn more about dengue treatment.
In the most severe cases, treatment should be done by hospitalizing the individual and placing serum and medication intravenously, as well as oxygen to avoid serious complications such as bleeding or dehydration, which can endanger the patient’s life.
Signs that yellow chicken improves between 2 and 3 days after starting treatment and include: muscle degradation, relief from muscle and headache pains, as well as vomiting.
In contrast, signs of aggravation of yellow fever are linked to dehydration and include: increased vomiting, decreased irritation, excessive fatigue and apathy, in these cases it is recommended to go to the hospital for emergency treatment to initiate appropriate treatment.
Signs and symptoms that might indicate yellow fever is complicated by: decreased inflammation, apathy, post-traumatic stress, vomiting in the blood, and kidney failure, for example.
Complications affect 5 to 10% of yellow fever patients and, in these cases, the person may be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for respiratory assistance or haemodialysis.
The main way to prevent yellow fever infection is the vaccine, available in clinical health centers. Learn more about the yellow chicken vaccine and what to do.
In addition, it is also necessary to avoid the bite of transmitting mosquitoes, taking some precautions such as:
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