Diabetic patients are at greater risk of dengue shock syndrome

Dengue Shock Syndrome: People who are suffering from diabetes need to be careful about their health in this season. In fact, the immunity of diabetic patients is much lower than that of healthy people. Therefore, they have a higher risk of infection as well as dengue.

Dengue Shock Syndrome

Chairman of Felix Hospital, Dr. D.K. Gupta says that blood vessels become very fragile in diabetic patients. In such a situation, the risk of blood flow is higher. This is the reason why dengue symptoms can be severe in diabetic patients. The risk of internal bleeding also increases in case of dengue in diabetic patients. Not only this, diabetic patients also take a lot of time to recover from dengue.

In case of dengue, the metabolic rate of the patient increases. Due to this the blood sugar fluctuates a lot. When a diabetic patient gets dengue, the risk of thrombocytopenia i.e. low platelet count increases. Due to this their recovery also becomes very slow. People with uncontrolled blood sugar levels are at particularly high risk of developing rare complications of dengue, such as dengue shock syndrome. This causes high fever, liver damage and severe bleeding.

Do not ignore fever

Dengue shock syndrome is a condition of dengue in which high fever starts accompanied by bleeding from the nose and gums. In this, lymph and blood cells get damaged. In dengue shock syndrome, the circulatory system of the patient begins to collapse. If not controlled early, it can cause shock, severe bleeding, or even death.

Diabetic patients should not ignore fever. If blood sugar is not under control, even a mild fever should be immediately examined. Through blood tests, dengue can be detected early and stopped before it gets out of control. To avoid dengue, diabetic patients have to control their blood sugar so that the risk of serious complications can be reduced.

Symptoms of Dengue fever

Ordinary dengue fever lasts for about 5 to 7 days after which the patient recovers. This type of dengue fever is found in most of the cases. In this, sudden high fever occurs after feeling cold. Pain in head, muscles and joints. Pain behind the eyes, which worsens by pressing or moving the eyes.

Feeling very weak, loss of appetite, nausea and bad taste in mouth. Mild pain in the throat. There are red-pink rashes on the body, especially on the face, neck and chest. Whereas in dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) there is bleeding from nose and gums. Blood in stool or vomit. Symptoms of small or big marks of dark blue-black color are visible on the skin.

Coolness of the skin despite high fever in dengue shock syndrome (DSS). The patient gradually becomes unconscious. The patient’s pulse sometimes starts moving fast and sometimes slowly. Symptoms like his blood pressure becoming very low. If there is high fever, severe pain in joints or rashes on the body, then dengue test should be done on the first day itself.