KLIKTIMES.COM | JAKARTA– Health experts from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia – Dr. Hospital. Cipto Mangunkusumo, Dr. Erni Juwita Nelwan, PhD, SpPD, K-PTI stated that dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) can last all year, so it not only occurs and increases rainy season.
“Since there has been climate change in the past 10 years, the dengue fever epidemic is no longer cyclical due to the continuous ups and downs of rainfall,” said Dr. Erni Juwita Nelwan, PhD, SpPD, K-PTI in a media discussion titled “Beware the Spread of Dengue in the Medium Rainy Season” which was held online on Monday.
Erni noted, pathology This also appears at the change of seasons. According to him, in the summer mosquitoes lay their eggs, then in the summer rainy season if immersed in clean water, the eggs immediately turn into larvae and then into adult mosquitoes within a few days and the numbers are very high.
The same thing was reported by a pediatrician of the FKUI-RSCM Prof. Dr. Dr. Hindra Irawan Satari, Sp.A (K). He said that the Aedes aegypti mosquito lays its eggs in clear, stagnant water, not exposed to sunlight and not in contact with the ground.
“These mosquitoes live in the tropics, in high humidity, stagnant water, not exposed to sunlight and not in contact with the ground. rainy seasonthe clear water that is stagnant is greater and he bites or bites many times, “he said, who still treats patients with dengue hemorrhagic fever today.
Prof. Hindra recalled that dengue hemorrhagic fever can be fatal because it is generally recognized too late, even if there is a leak in the blood vessels. Damage to the endothelium or the cells that line the blood vessels causes the fluid to leak out so that it causes shock and can end in death if bleeding occurs.
“So it’s not just the platelets that cause a sensation, but also the degree of blood vessel loss, which is an indicator of the severity of a person’s dengue virus infection,” he said.
