Bacong Dengue Fever Case

For information sharing: The boy has co-infection of Dengue and Pneumonia. Was dangerously low on Potassium. Getting better in the hospital. Lessons learned for parents - get your child to the hospital as soon as illness occurs; read up on Dengue symptoms.

 

Pat, this seriously underlines the point I made yesterday about cross-infection. It's quite possible that the boy was admitted with severe Dengue and then acquired the Pneumonia whilst in hospital. Whilst it is a virus, penumonia is often acquired by airborne bacteria, particularly in children. It's usually classified by the way in which it is acquired, and three of these classifications are community acquired, healthcare acquired, and hospital acquired. Very possible that the third one may be the guilty one.

Isolating the child into a one-patient room at Holy Child was a smart thing to do. For a nipper of that age, its more than the discomfort and pain of having two severe infections. It's also a very frightening time for them. Glad the boy seems to be on the mend, albeit slowly. Do you want me to call in to HC and visit the fella ? More than happy to do so.

 

This is really scary and I do know someone who died within 24 hours of feeling flu-like symptoms. I was lucky and caught a very mild form of dengue while in Thailand. I'm wondering if foreigners run a higher risk as the mosquitoes seem to be more attracted to foreign blood than that of the natives. Hmm.... In any case, my wife and I are currently building a screened porch so that we can enjoy the outdoors while feeling protected.

 

Would presume this is unlikely, if you drink enough alcohol.......

 

Roger, thank you for your visit and kind gifts to my nephew (in-law). I'm sure the teddy bear perked him up and my sister-in-law was probably impressed that a handsome, debonaire Englishman would be so kind. Cheers!

 

I have been told that mosquitos are attracted to persons with high cholesterol levels, which I and many foreigners have. I paint my exposed body with OFF, but still get bites above or below where I have applied the ointment.

 

Hats off to Holy Child Hospital for improving my nephew's dengue fever and pneumonia. His potassium level other signs are near normal and he may return home this afternoon. One week at Provincial and six days at Holy Child. In hind sight, I wish his parents would have come to me for help to put him in HC instead of Provincial. Also, the boy was really dehydrated from the Dengue problems and was in danger when brought to HC. It appears his condition "may" have deteriorated at the Provincial Hospital as well as contacting Pneumonia.

 

No surprises there. About the most professional help provincial has seems to be the OJT Nursing students from NORSU.

 

Cost Information: For 4 days & 3 nights at Holy Child in a private room, the cost for Dengue and Pneumonia treatment was 12,176p with Philhealth, 16K + without the Philhealth insurance. Six days at Provincial, Philhealth paid the room and prescriptions were around 3k, but.... lessons learned one should find a way to cover a private hospital, if a serious illness occurs. Thank you all for your concerns, we are so happy the boy is able to go home recovered.

 

[video=youtube;KTN2LOIf64I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTN2LOIf64I[/video] i took this video in nicaragua my 1st 6 month strech here..this is a really small mountain town with nice cool temperatures and no dengue cases...But i hate it when they show up blowing smoke and they go into every house and fumigate..my 1st time my spanish was still not so great and didnt get the memo that they were coming...Zero visibility toxic smoke found me in the shower and the people in the streets all laghed at me running out with a towel and covered in soap suds and being a giant gringo too...It took me 6 hours to come down from the toxic feeling i got from it...going out to eat after fumigators come around,is a rough time as many restuaRANTS or cantinas dont really protect their food stock and serve up food that gives me intoxication for a few hours after the meal........Any way its nation wide this fumigation and now i live in the big city where they cant afford to get into every one of the 1million homes,so they do the streets and also go into thouroughly get every home and the closets and drain pipes- in the barrios/pueblas that have dengue cases......its rough here but maybe better than having dengue..no one knows what chemicals are used and some say its surplus neuro toxins banned from use in USA thus dumped for real cheap for anti dengue in central america.......There was epidemic dengue out break in latin amrica back when i was in dumaguete..it involved ten thousand people or more across the sub continent with a mutant strain unseen before...So the measures taken here are drastic.......yes thats me whineing in the videos about the toxic fumigation