Dr. Guillermo Sequera, director of Health Surveillance, spoke about the disease that today saturates public hospitals and medical offices: the dreaded chikungunya.
Fever and joint pain are among the first symptoms and on average, it takes about 10 days for the person to feel healthy again and then recover 100%.
In some cases, the disease tends to be prolonged, and this may be due to two factors. The first, because the patient already had a joint problem or a beginning of this disease. The second, due to lack of rest.
“Those with the prolonged form are those who could not rest, in these cases, the sequelae are for much longer,” explained Dr. Sequera, in an interview with 730 AM.
He recommended that when the pain continues after 15 days, a traumatologist should be seen, since it is possible that the virus has lodged in the joints.
COMMON FACTOR OF FATAL CASES
Hydration is essential, in any case, not to mention with chikungunya, where the patient loses the desire to eat and drink, to the point that a glass of water seems as much like a thermos.
“They die from extreme dehydration, they arrive very dry, it is very difficult to get them out of the shock in which they arrive, it generally happens to the very old or the little ones,” Sequera commented. The medication varies depending on the symptoms that the patient presents.
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