AWARNESS ABOUT FEVER
Fever like a hyperthermia like a dengue Fever, yellow Fever, hepatic fever, malaria fever, Chikungunye..
Actually fever is a most common type of symptoms even though in stomach, brain (brain fever) , heart , lung and include all organic from our human body.
• 1. Fever with chills and rigors unless proved otherwise is Malaria, Urinary Tract Infection or Filaria.
*_2. Malarial chills are usually in the Afternoon and Filarial chills are usually in the Evening.
*_3. Malaria fever patients invariably will be non-toxic in between fever attacks, while Typhoid patients will be toxic.
*_4. Fever with single episode of Chills, with chest symptoms, unless proved otherwise is Pneumococcal Pneumonia.
*_5. Abrupt high grade fever with pain in eye movement and severe back pain is Dengue, unless proved otherwise
*_6. Fever with pain in joints, which improves with flexion is Chikungunya.
*_7. In Viral Hepatitis, Jaundice will always appear after fever subsides. If patient has Fever and Jaundice together, look for other causes.
*_8. In SLE fever, patients will always have negative CRP. Positive CRP, look for associated TB.
*_9. Evening rise of temperature lasting more than 6 weeks invariably is TB. These patients may have mild derangement of SGOT and SGPT.
*_10. In Dengue fever, SGOT will be more than SGPT by day 3.
*_11. In Dengue, capillary leakage syndrome starts only after fever subsides.
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