The Hidden Dangers of Dengue Fever: A Story of Resilience
Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral infection, is often underestimated. Ross Constable’s harrowing experience serves as a stark reminder of the potential dangers lurking in seemingly benign tropical holidays.
A Bite With Unforeseen Consequences
In 2019, Ross Constable, a 48-year-old art teacher from Timperley, Greater Manchester, returned home from a family vacation in Phuket, Thailand. His new ‘souvenir’ wasn’t a tan or a trinket, but a mosquito bite later found as a potentially deadly infection called Dengue Fever.
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The Unfolding Calamity
Ross’s fever and body aches quickly escalated to skin shedding and extreme fatigue, finally leading to temporary blindness caused by the collapsing arteries in his brain. He was unable to recognize his own partner during one of his dizzy spells.
” Wandering into his daughter’s bedroom after waking up from one of his dizzier spells.I didn’t know where I was … having her say to me, “Oh, you’re just wandering in here to have a chat. Are you feeling all right Dad?”She stopped me from going into the main road,” Ross glanced under the effects of severe dehydration due to dengue fever.
From Dengue to Tourette.
While dengue fever does not directly cause Tourette’s syndrome, it can trigger neurological complications such as inflammation of the brain.
Tourette’s and Dengue can affect the same part of the brain, both disorders have common symptoms like anxiety, depression, muscle spasms, Parkinson-like tremors, seizures etc.
There’s evidence suggesting a neurological link between immune-inflammation responses triggered by both, and Tourette’s manifesting as tics. Neurons in a brain already affected by the autoimmune response of dengue fever could spur Tourette’s as well.
The availability of just a few neurological doctors trained for complex patients like Ross could seriously trouble medical progress.
Living with Tourette’s: An Ongoing Journey
Ross’s doctors remain mystified. And so begins the relentless fight to reclaim his life despite living with this lifelong condition.
Tourette’s and Trip Traps
Like Ross Ross, Serenity Tanner who contracted dengue fever, attributed her pre-hospital symptoms to a simple case of heat exhaustion, but the virus will cause a rare dendritic virus in her brain that causes delusions of grandeur which are very common in Tourette.
Pro Tips: Symptoms and Warning Signs
Most people don’t have symptoms for short terms, symptoms typically manifest within 4 to 10 days after a bite from an infected mosquito.
For those that occur, they can range from mild to severe, including:
Rast or scaly patches
Difficulty feeling/stiffening of muscles.
Defiance towards the body-mind flow
Itchy and/or swollen skin
A rash that closely resembles severe dengue fever
Symptoms merely mimic flu-like ones.
Patients may achieve relief with pain relievers, hydration, and rest. Important to DOH to point enough where to go before things get harder.
| Viral Symptoms of Dengue Fever | Disease Characteristics |
|---|---|
| Flu Symptoms | Typically Clearing up on their own. |
| Dengue Fever | Visual/Aural hallucinations of distorted reality. |
| Severe Dengue Fever | Visual/aural hallucinations of distorted reality progressing to untamed appendages stimulated emotions charcateristicly Tourette. |
Synchronicity
Did you know? 70% of people infected by the Dengue virus are asymptomatic, making it tricky to diagnose.
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FAQ
Q: What is dengue fever?
A: Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne viral infection, caused by the dengue virus. The World Health Organization classifies Dengue as a Severe Form.
Q: Why Dengue cases have increased worldwide only recently?
Epidemics flourish primarily in tropics, particularly with low income-high population density.
Q: Can Dengue be fatal?
A: While most are antimicrobial/heart sponge to a few they’re life-threatening death by adult respiratory distress syndrome etc.
Q: Can only mosquitoes spread Dengue?
A: The most common vector of the dengue virus is by infected mosquitoes. It’s medically safe to rule out transmission medically safe by fecal inew Dialysis.
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