Chikungunya
Chikungunya is a viral disease caused by infected mosquitoes to humans. Due to viral disease, people have pain in fever and joint. This viral disease is for very short days and in very rare cases it is the death of someone. But its symptoms remain longer and weaken your body. So far it has not got any vaccine or antiviral treatment. All the medicines currently used are used to relieve the symptoms rather than its causes.
Historically Chikungunya was considered a tropical disease because it was only seen in Africa, Asia and India. Even after 2007, the disease has arrived in Italy, France, Croatia and the Caribbean islands.
Since 2005, more than 1.9 million people in India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar and Thailand have been hit by Chikungunya. Over 60 countries across the world have identified cases of Chikungunya in their borders.
Chikungunya Symptoms.
Chikungunya is characterized by sudden fever, which often occurs with joint pain. Joint pain often makes very weak, but usually lasts for a few days or can last several weeks. Other common symptoms of Chikungunya include muscular pain, headache, nausea, fatigue and red rash. Therefore, the virus can cause acute, short or prolonged illness.
Most patients recover completely, but some people may live with joints pain for several months or years. Occasionally there are problems with eyes, neurological, cardiac as well as gastrointestinal problems. If the disease is contracted specifically by the elderly and young, then the disease is more serious. For those who have high blood pressure or diabetes, this disease creates a very serious problem.
If a person has problems of rheumatoid arthritis or joint pain before infection, then if the infection is infected, the pain can increase further and your condition may worsen. In these patients, the effects of rheumatoid arthritis can last for long. Due to the disease in elderly people, their death can also happen. Often symptoms in Chikungunya infected individuals are mild or the infection is not properly identified or the symptoms of Chikungunya also make the mistake of understanding the symptoms of dengue.
Especially if you have recently visited a region where chikungunya was an outbreak and you feel that you or your family member can have chickengunya, then immediately contact your doctor. Doctors can make blood tests to ensure chikungunya or similar diseases. If you are sick with chickengunia, avoid the bite of new mosquito so that the virus can be prevented from spreading.
Chikungunya Causes.
Chikungunya virus spreads through the bite of an infected mosquito. When a person is infected with Chikungunya virus and bites mosquitoes, the mosquito is also infected with this virus. These mosquitoes include the most Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes and Aedes albopictus.
These mosquito bites in daylight, though they bite more in the morning and late afternoon. Both species cut out of the house but Aedes aegypti mosquitoes also bite within the house. Aedes species mosquitoes reproduce in stopped containers like water containers, tanks, omitted substances such as buckets, utensils, tires, flower donations etc.
Chikungunya virus is a hot sensitive ribose nucleic acid (RNA) virus of genus alphavirus and is a member of the Togaviridae family. It requires an agent to spread from one place to another. This means that the virus does not spread from one person to another. It usually spreads when a mosquito bites an infected person and later bites a non-infected person. Then he leaves the virus in that non-infected person, due to which the other person is also infected with this virus.
The time of infection can be 2-12 days of infection, but usually this disease lasts 3 to 7 days. Sometimes Chikungunya infection occurs in our body but its symptoms are not visible.
Prevention of Chikungunya.
1. Save yourself from bites of mosquitoes.
2. Use air conditioning or window/door screen to keep mosquitoes out. If you are not able to save yourself from mosquitoes inside your house, then sleep under a mosquito net.
3. Prevent mosquitoes from freezing of frozen water in containers, pots, buckets, pits etc. outside your home.
4. Put clothes with full arms. If possible, wear clothes covering the entire body.
5. Use insect repellents, DEET, picaridin, IR3535, and insulin containing Eucalypt oil or para-menthane-diol provide long-term protection.
6. If you use both sunscreen and insect repellent, then apply sunscreen first and then use insect repellent.
7. Placing a basil plant near the window helps keep the mosquitoes away.
8. Keep yourself hydrated.
9. The mosquitoes keep away from burning camphor in the room.
Chikungunya Treatment.
1. To reduce fever and pain, take medication like acetaminophen (Tylenol) or paracetamol
2. Do not take aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) medicines, unless it is known that you do not have dengue or may be at risk of bleeding.
3. If you are taking medicines for any other health related problems, talk to your doctor before taking extra medication.
4. If you have chikungunya, avoid mosquito bites on the first week of illness.
5. Relax for at least 7 days (Bed Rest).
6. Drink at least 5 liters of water per day. ORS (drink pouch or lemon juice, sugar and one pinch of salt and drink it in liter of water.)
7. Even after the body temperature becomes normal, rest of at least 7 days is required, and with proper treatment it takes only 3 days to get normal temperature.
8. Wear cotton clothes.
Chikungunya Risks & Complications.
Chikungunya is likely to have more problems if it grows - keep in mind that it is not necessary that any of these may happen. If you see symptoms of any of these diseases, contact your doctor immediately.
1. Uveitis: In the eye, the inner layer of the retina and swelling between the scaleras and the outer fibroid layer of the cornea
2. Retinitis: Retinal inflammation
3. Myocarditis: Inflammation of the heart muscles
4. Hepatitis: Swelling of the liver
5. Nephritis: inflammation of the kidneys.
6. Hemorrhage: Bleeding out
7. Meningoencephalitis: Inflammation of cerebral membrane and cerebral tissue nearby.
8. Myelitis: Spinal cord swelling
9. Guillain-Barré syndrome: The rare peripheral nervous system disease due to muscle weakness.
10. cranial nerve palsy: Disadvantages of functioning in the cranial nerves.
Historically Chikungunya was considered a tropical disease because it was only seen in Africa, Asia and India. Even after 2007, the disease has arrived in Italy, France, Croatia and the Caribbean islands.
Since 2005, more than 1.9 million people in India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar and Thailand have been hit by Chikungunya. Over 60 countries across the world have identified cases of Chikungunya in their borders.
Chikungunya Symptoms.
Chikungunya is characterized by sudden fever, which often occurs with joint pain. Joint pain often makes very weak, but usually lasts for a few days or can last several weeks. Other common symptoms of Chikungunya include muscular pain, headache, nausea, fatigue and red rash. Therefore, the virus can cause acute, short or prolonged illness.
Most patients recover completely, but some people may live with joints pain for several months or years. Occasionally there are problems with eyes, neurological, cardiac as well as gastrointestinal problems. If the disease is contracted specifically by the elderly and young, then the disease is more serious. For those who have high blood pressure or diabetes, this disease creates a very serious problem.
If a person has problems of rheumatoid arthritis or joint pain before infection, then if the infection is infected, the pain can increase further and your condition may worsen. In these patients, the effects of rheumatoid arthritis can last for long. Due to the disease in elderly people, their death can also happen. Often symptoms in Chikungunya infected individuals are mild or the infection is not properly identified or the symptoms of Chikungunya also make the mistake of understanding the symptoms of dengue.
Especially if you have recently visited a region where chikungunya was an outbreak and you feel that you or your family member can have chickengunya, then immediately contact your doctor. Doctors can make blood tests to ensure chikungunya or similar diseases. If you are sick with chickengunia, avoid the bite of new mosquito so that the virus can be prevented from spreading.
Chikungunya Causes.
Chikungunya virus spreads through the bite of an infected mosquito. When a person is infected with Chikungunya virus and bites mosquitoes, the mosquito is also infected with this virus. These mosquitoes include the most Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes and Aedes albopictus.
These mosquito bites in daylight, though they bite more in the morning and late afternoon. Both species cut out of the house but Aedes aegypti mosquitoes also bite within the house. Aedes species mosquitoes reproduce in stopped containers like water containers, tanks, omitted substances such as buckets, utensils, tires, flower donations etc.
Chikungunya virus is a hot sensitive ribose nucleic acid (RNA) virus of genus alphavirus and is a member of the Togaviridae family. It requires an agent to spread from one place to another. This means that the virus does not spread from one person to another. It usually spreads when a mosquito bites an infected person and later bites a non-infected person. Then he leaves the virus in that non-infected person, due to which the other person is also infected with this virus.
The time of infection can be 2-12 days of infection, but usually this disease lasts 3 to 7 days. Sometimes Chikungunya infection occurs in our body but its symptoms are not visible.
Prevention of Chikungunya.
1. Save yourself from bites of mosquitoes.
2. Use air conditioning or window/door screen to keep mosquitoes out. If you are not able to save yourself from mosquitoes inside your house, then sleep under a mosquito net.
3. Prevent mosquitoes from freezing of frozen water in containers, pots, buckets, pits etc. outside your home.
4. Put clothes with full arms. If possible, wear clothes covering the entire body.
5. Use insect repellents, DEET, picaridin, IR3535, and insulin containing Eucalypt oil or para-menthane-diol provide long-term protection.
6. If you use both sunscreen and insect repellent, then apply sunscreen first and then use insect repellent.
7. Placing a basil plant near the window helps keep the mosquitoes away.
8. Keep yourself hydrated.
9. The mosquitoes keep away from burning camphor in the room.
Chikungunya Treatment.
1. To reduce fever and pain, take medication like acetaminophen (Tylenol) or paracetamol
2. Do not take aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) medicines, unless it is known that you do not have dengue or may be at risk of bleeding.
3. If you are taking medicines for any other health related problems, talk to your doctor before taking extra medication.
4. If you have chikungunya, avoid mosquito bites on the first week of illness.
5. Relax for at least 7 days (Bed Rest).
6. Drink at least 5 liters of water per day. ORS (drink pouch or lemon juice, sugar and one pinch of salt and drink it in liter of water.)
7. Even after the body temperature becomes normal, rest of at least 7 days is required, and with proper treatment it takes only 3 days to get normal temperature.
8. Wear cotton clothes.
Chikungunya Risks & Complications.
Chikungunya is likely to have more problems if it grows - keep in mind that it is not necessary that any of these may happen. If you see symptoms of any of these diseases, contact your doctor immediately.
1. Uveitis: In the eye, the inner layer of the retina and swelling between the scaleras and the outer fibroid layer of the cornea
2. Retinitis: Retinal inflammation
3. Myocarditis: Inflammation of the heart muscles
4. Hepatitis: Swelling of the liver
5. Nephritis: inflammation of the kidneys.
6. Hemorrhage: Bleeding out
7. Meningoencephalitis: Inflammation of cerebral membrane and cerebral tissue nearby.
8. Myelitis: Spinal cord swelling
9. Guillain-Barré syndrome: The rare peripheral nervous system disease due to muscle weakness.
10. cranial nerve palsy: Disadvantages of functioning in the cranial nerves.
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