Dengue Fever
Here it is on Saturday ngiht, and my wife is suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Dean -- dengue fever.
She has all the symptoms, even the delerium, as she threatens every moquito that flies by. She is feverish, has no appetite, has a rash, her eyes hurt, headaches -- straight from the WebMD website.
And there is nothing that can be done about it except wait it out, and drink lots of fluids.
Poor thing...!
posted by fwade @ 10/03/2007
7 Comments:
Hey be careful, not to scare you but my neighbour had it and had to be hospitalised for 3 days something about his white blood cell count....
Hmmm. It also seems to be setting its sights on expats to Jamaica with a force...
Hi Francis
I am so very sorry to hear that your significant other has dengue fever.
The reason that expats are contracting the virus is because they have not developed any immunity to the virus.
I know you are cognizant with the virus (how it is contacted and/spread), however, I respectfully refer you to this page.
http://www.dhpe.org/infect/dengue.html
I hope she recovers very soon and I will keep you and her in my prayers.
Peace
I was in the Kingston area in late September and believe I contracted dengue fever.
I steyed more in the Port Morant area helping with hurricance effected areas.
Hope your wife is better.
I recovered after 7 days but have been incredibly tired since then.
I contracted Dengue in Costa Rica 2 1/2 years ago. I had a quite a serious case of it and was in intensive care for a few days and hospital for over a week. It takes a very long time to recover completely. There are still some days, although becoming less frequent, that I have no choice but to sleep...overwhelming exhaustion, joint pain usually preceded by the smell of smoke...can be very weird symptoms. Tell her to be kind to herself, rest a lot, eat properly, and understand if she can't keep up mentally or physically for quite some time.
I can't believe the last post! I, too, contracted Dengue in Costa Rica 3 years ago. I was also in ICU/hospital for over a week and off work for 5 months as I slowly got my concentration and energy back.
I was so pleased to read your post because I wondered if a lot of my symptoms were, indeed, related to Dengue...especially the exhaustion, smelling smoke and joint pain 3 years later. Thank you for the confirmation! Hope you're getting better. I find the severity and frequency diminishing.
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