THE CLINICAL PROFILE OF DENGUE PATIENTS IN CHILDREN

Authors

  • Poonam Meena Medical Officer Government Hospital Dausa
  • Satish Meena FNB Fellow, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Apollo Hospital Chennai
  • Ashok Meena Medical Officer Government Hospital Dausa
  • Kailash Meena Senior Professor, Department of Paeditrics, S M S Medical College Jaipur

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32553/ijmbs.v5i12.2328

Keywords:

Dengue, Complication, Shock

Abstract

Background: To study the clinical profile of dengue in children

Methods: The hospital based study was conducted on patients presenting to paediatric hospital, who fulfilled inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Results: Based on the symptoms, the most common symptoms noticed were fever 94.00% followed by myalgia 85.00% decreased appetite 83%, retroorbital pain in 84.0%  and vomiting 81.00%

Conclusion: It concluded that  common symptoms observed were fever, myalgia, decreased appetite and headache The common complications presented were hepatic dysfunction and shock with no mortality indicating the presence of less virulent organisms..

Keywords: Dengue, Complication, Shock

Downloads

Published

2021-12-01

How to Cite

Meena, P. ., Meena, S. ., Meena, A. ., & Meena, K. . (2021). THE CLINICAL PROFILE OF DENGUE PATIENTS IN CHILDREN. International Journal of Medical and Biomedical Studies, 5(12). https://doi.org/10.32553/ijmbs.v5i12.2328

Issue

Section

Articles

Most read articles by the same author(s)

1 2 > >>