Changes in Dengue Fever Symptoms Linked to COVID-19 Pandemic: Ministry of Health

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – In the body of someone who has been infected with COVID-19, there are several changes in the symptoms of the disease Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF). This is caused by the effect of an immunological reaction, as confirmed by the Director of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control (P2PM) at the Ministry of Health, Imran Pambudi.

“In fact, there are several reports that indicate that there are changes symptoms of dengue fever after the COVID-19 pandemic. “This is actually related to changes in immunological reactions that occur in the body of someone who has been infected with COVID-19,” Imran said in Jakarta, Friday, as reported by INTERPRETATION.

Imran said that the Ministry of Health had received several reports showing changes in symptoms in dengue victims after the pandemic. COVID 19one of them came from Bandung City, West Java.

The local health service found symptoms of dengue fever that are not usually recognized in patients, such as the absence of signs of red spots and nose, which have been major symptoms among dengue victims.

Red spots and nosebleeds after being bitten by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, Imran said, are classic symptoms that do not always appear in dengue victims in the current pandemic era.

in case hemorrhagic fever, red spots usually appear on the third day and last for the next two to three days. The spot will diminish on the fourth and fifth day, and then disappear on the sixth day.

“Red marks on the skin and nose are classic symptoms when platelets are less than 100,000 per microliter,” he said.