Ways to prevent dengue fever

Ways to prevent dengue fever


Dengue - NHS UK

1. Symptoms of dengue
2. When to get medical advice
3. Treatment for dengue
4. Where dengue is found
5. How dengue is spread
6. Preventing dengue
7. Severe dengue

Symptoms of Dengue Fever
Dengue fever -  Mayo Clinic

5 ways to prevent dengue fever - YouTube

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These preventive measures were:

• Clean environment: you need to keep your home and environment clean. Prevent accumulation of stagnant water in empty buckets and utensils along with flower vases.
• Use mosquito coils and repellents: sounds basic measure, but it is very important to involve them all in daily chorus to avoid unwanted consequences.
• Protective clothing: dengue mosquitoes bite in day light. So while going out, don’t forget to cover your body with full sleeves and full pants.
• Take proper diet: include green vegetables, coconut water, orange-black grape-aloe vera juice in your diet. Don’t forget to consume water as much as possible. It will keep you hydrated, which is essential during the season. Juice of papaya leaves is also effective in Dengue.

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Clinical course of dengue fever

Preventing dengue

There's currently no widely available vaccine for dengue. You can prevent it by avoiding being bitten by mosquitoes.
The following can reduce your risk of being bitten:

• use insect repellent – products containing 50% DEET are most effective, but lower concentrations (15-30% DEET) should be used in children, and alternatives to DEET should be used in children younger than two months
• wear loose but protective clothing – mosquitoes can bite through tight-fitting clothes; trousers, long-sleeved shirts, and socks and shoes (not sandals) are ideal
• sleep under a mosquito net – ideally one that has been treated with insecticide
• be aware of your environment – mosquitoes that spread dengue breed in standing water in urban areas

It's a good idea to speak to your GP, practice nurse or a travel clinic before travelling to get specific advice about what you can do to avoid dengue and other travel illnesses.

Malaria - NHS UK

1. Overview
2. Symptoms
3. Causes
4. Antimalarials
5. Complications
6. Prevention

1. Preventing malaria
2. Types of antimalarial medication
3. Treating malaria

Prevention

There's a significant risk of getting malaria if you travel to an affected area. It's very important you take precautions to prevent the disease.
Malaria can often be avoided using the ABCD approach to prevention, which stands for:

• Awareness of risk – find out whether you're at risk of getting malaria.
• Bite prevention – avoid mosquito bites by using insect repellent, covering your arms and legs, and using a mosquito net.
• Check whether you need to take malaria prevention tablets – if you do, make sure you take the right antimalarial tablets at the right dose, and finish the course.
• Diagnosis – seek immediate medical advice if you have malaria symptoms, including up to a year after you return from travelling.

These are outlined in more detail below.







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Advice for travellers

Whether you have been vaccinated against typhoid or not, it's important to take basic precautions when travelling in countries where typhoid fever is present.
For example:

• only drink bottled water from a bottle that was properly sealed, or water that's been recently boiled 
• avoid ice cream and don't have ice in your drinks
• avoid uncooked fruit and vegetables, unless you have washed them in safe water or peeled them yourself
• avoid shellfish, seafood and salads

Read more about food and water abroad.