There are 5 types of dengue, but the types present in Brazil are dengue type 1, 2 and 3, while type 4 is most common in Costa Rica and Venezuela, and Type 5 (DenV-5) was identified in Malaysia.
All types of dengue cause the same classic symptoms, which include high fever, headache, back pain, extreme tiredness and diarrhea. Check out the main symptoms of dengue.
A person who has had dengue can be contaminated by another type. Also, when more often a person is infected with dengue, the greater the risk of developing hemorrhagic dengue, increasing the risk of bleeding and severe complications.
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Dengue types
The 5 types, or serotypes, dengue that exist are:
- Dengue Type 1 or Denv-1: It is the most common type that infect people and mosquitoes, emerging in Brazil in 1986;
- Dengue Type 2 or Denv-2: This type, like type 3, is usually related to more complicated paintings of this disease;
- Dengue Type 3 or Denv-3: This type is the one that has the greatest potential to cause the serious forms of dengue;
- Dengue Type 4 or Denv-4: Thus, like DenV-1, this type of dengue also has lower risk of complications;
- Dengue Type 5, or Denv-5: So far it has not yet been registered in Brazil, being found only in Malaysia in 2007.
All types of dengue are caused by the same virus and may cause the same symptoms and needing the same type of treatment. However, type 3 has greater virulence, ie it causes more serious symptoms than the others.
In addition, from the second infection onwards by any type, there is a higher risk of the most severe dengue frames.
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Common questions about dengue
Some common questions about dengue are:
1. How is the dengue mosquito bite on the skin?
The dengue mosquito bite on the skin can cause a small red or round, round elevation and itching on the spot. However, it is not possible to differentiate the bite from the dengue mosquito from the bite of other mosquitoes.
Thus, in the presence of indicative symptoms of dengue, the general practitioner should be consulting to make the appropriate diagnosis.
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2. Why dengue scratches so much?
Dengue can scratch a lot, especially in the palm and plant plant, due to the respondents of the virus immune system, which releases mediators, toxins and antibodies.
In dengue, it is believed that itching is also caused by the entry of inflammatory cells and swelling on the skin after an increase in blood vessel permeability.
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3. Is dengue contagious?
Dengue is not contagious, not being transmitted from person to person, and is also not transmitted by eating food or water.
Dengue transmission happens only by the mosquito bite Aedes aegypti after being contaminated by the virus when feeding on the blood of a sick person.
Although it is rarer, this disease can also be transmitted from mother to baby during pregnancy or at delivery if the mother is sick with dengue.
4. How long does the symptoms of dengue last?
As the severity of this disease, symptoms of dengue can last between 7 to 10 days.
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5. How are dengue stains?
Dengue spots are initially flat and reddish and may appear across the body between 2 to 5 days after the fever began.
Another rash, similar to measles, may appear in a later phase of the disease, also causing greater skin sensitivity.
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6. How to know if I have dengue?
To find out if it is dengue, it is recommended to consult the infectologist or general practitioner, so that an evaluation of the symptoms and signs presented by the person is made.
The doctor may also request blood tests, such as blood count or tests to identify the dengue virus.
7. How long after the bite appears dengue symptoms?
Dengue symptoms usually appear between 4 and 7 days after the infected mosquito bite.
Babies and children usually do not have symptoms. However, in some cases may have high fever, irritability, drowsiness and loss of appetite.
8. How long does the itching of dengue last?
Dengue itching usually lasts from 2 to 5 days and may begin in the disease recovery phase or after fever disappearance.
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9. What are the symptoms of dengue for the second time?
The second infection onwards by any dengue serotype is more severe than the first and may increase the risk of hemorrhagic dengue.
Thus, in cases of hemorrhagic dengue, symptoms of dengue for the second time may include bleeding, persistent vomiting, urine with blood, agitation, drowsiness and mental confusion.
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10. Dengue gives shortness of breath?
Dengue hemorrhagic can short -breath, difficulty breathing, chest pain, which gets worse when inspiring deep or coughing, or persistent dry cough.
This can happen due to liquid accumulation in the lung or belly, known as pleural spill or ascites, respectively.
11. Dengue eyes?
Dengue hemorrhagic can cause death when treatment is not initiated or done correctly.
This is because this severe form of the disease causes intense bleeding, persistent vomiting, low blood pressure, shortness of breath and convulsive crisis, putting the person’s life at risk.
12. Can dengue naturally heal?
Light dengue can heal naturally, only some simple care to alleviate symptoms, such as putting a wet compress with cold water on the forehead for 15 minutes, having chamomile tea or peppermint, for example. Check out other tips to relieve the symptoms of dengue at home.
However, if these measures do not result, fever remedies can be taken, such as acetaminophen or dipyrone, or sickness, such as metoclopramide and domaperidone, for example, with the doctor’s orientation.
13. Can I have dengue more than once?
Yes. Each person can take dengue up to 4 or 5 times, because each type of dengue is equivalent to a variation of the original virus.
Therefore, when a person catches type 1 dengue, immunity develops for this specific type of dengue and is no longer contaminated with this variation of the virus.
However, if the person is bitten by a mosquito infected with dengue type 2, he will again develop the disease and in this case the risk of developing hemorrhagic dengue is higher.
14. Can I have 2 types of dengue at the same time?
Having 2 types of dengue is not impossible, however it is very unlikely because it would have to be circulating in the same region 2 different types of dengue and this is extremely rare.
Therefore, so far, there have been no cases of infection by two viruses at the same time.
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