Thread: Dengue Fever in Bangkok

Watchout folks, reported cases indicate Dengue Fever is on the rise in Bkk

Can you get Dengue Fever that only lasts a couple of days? I was wondering if that was what I had the other week?

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Can you get Dengue Fever that only lasts a couple of days? I was wondering if that was what I had the other week?

nope.

It takes everal days to develope, and can last anything from 2 weeks to several months, depending on one's constitution. The problem with it is that it can only be effectively treated at the early stages, ie first couple of days, when the symptoms are similar to a variety of other diseases and it's often not recognised.

Also posed to be 4 diff strains of it, and it depends on what one you got too from what I hear.
I know I do not need any one of em, and it is supposed to be getting worse in CM too.

Originally Posted by stroller

It takes everal days to develope, and can last anything from 2 weeks to several months, depending on one's constitution. The problem with it is that it can only be effectively treated at the early stages, ie first couple of days, when the symptoms are similar to a variety of other diseases and it's often not recognised.

How the fcuk do u treat it.Unless it's the "bleeding" one,all I thought they gave was panadol?

^Exactly.There is no treatment except for paraceatamol to keep fever down and a few pints of blood if you get the hemorrhagic one.

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As I said, it is treatable at onset, don't know how though, I'm not a doctor. A friend's little toddler had it in Manila, and fortunately a wise doc suspected Dengue, did the diagnosis and treated it, she was fine within a week, would most likely have been fatal if it had been allowed to develop further.

^Well,I had a mate here that had 'suspected' Dengue.Quack said all they could do was check in a weeks time if it was actually Dengue and prescribe parecetomol to keep temp down.Apart from that there was no other treatment.Unless it was the bleedin one....

I have never heard of a real treatment, being a virus it is some bad shit,
I know a dude had it in South America and the only things they could do for him was try to control the symptoms and wait,, he said he damn sure never wants that shit again.

You will never get the same strain again, but if you get one of the others they say it is even worse.

A bloke I know here told me his wife had the bleedin one here.She was given 18pints of blood.He said that her sweat was pink.....

they say if you have had one and get imune to it and you get another that it will be worse and pobly the bleeding kind, I don't really understand if is hermatic or if it becomes because of the immunity to one.

The health dept comes over here and sprays that smoke shit when ever we tell em that there is skeeters around,, nice of em.

I (as I'm sure we all do) hate bastard mosquitos.

Although I have read that there is no clinical proof of Vitamin B as a deterrent I have found that I have been bitten less since taking Vit B supplements daily.

^ never heard that, but will give it a try as they persecute me.... the little fcukers

No cure.


I had it a few years back.

I had been pissing about in the Tamanagara Park in Malaysia for two weeks and decided a relaxing time at Cherating beach town was in order. I drank a bottle of rum the first night I was there and woke up with the worst hangover I ever had which went on and on and on.

I ignored it and headed off to the Perenthian Islands with a couple of ENglish lads and an Irish lad I had met on my travels.

Still felt really off with a pounding head. Went snorkling all day and got bad heat stroke. That night things started to go a bit 'strange' I stopped sweating which was rather worrying and had to have a wet sheet over me to keep my body temp under control.

24 hours later I was really fucked. I couldn't stand, move or do anything. I was trapped in my bed on a fucking island in Malaysia (thankfully with three lads checking in on me on a regular basis)

I started hallucinating, I couldn't get to the toilet to piss so I had to piss in a bottle. I was sleeping and waking up every three hours from dreams so vivid and real (and unbelievably fucking scary; still remember them now).

Three or four days I was like this. I should have gone to hospital but there wasn't anthing that they could have done other than keep me hydrated. After four days I had enough strength to take a shower which was like having somebody stick millions of hot needles into me. I hobbled to the cafe about 25m away ordered food and a drink and managed a couple of mouthfuls before falling asleep. I was carried back to my room my the owner.

I was taken by the boys to the mainland where I checked into a hostel in Kota Baru and went to visit the doctor down stairs. He took one look at as I walked in and said "You've got dengue fever, how long have you had it" By this point since onset it had been two weeks or so.

He escorted me up to the hostel owner and told him that I would be staying for a while and worked out a deal on the room so that I had it to myself. I spent another two weeks in KOta Baru recovering. DOctor visited me everyday (he had studied in Edinburgh) and the owner of the hostel fed me. I paid for room and food he cooked or ordered in for us. Watched old Malay comedies and slept a lot.

SOld my apartment as well during this time. Moment of madness when the dengue came back in a wave and I thought that I was going to die.

Four weeks after getting it I headed off to Thailand. Planned on stopping in at KSR (1st and only time) to meet a friend and move into his house on Sumumvit for a while.

Thing with Dengue is that it comes back in waves. You feel great then all of a sudden it's whacked you again and taken all your energy. Happened on KSR when I walked to the end of the street and had to get a tuk-tuk back with a mad Indian girl who still stalks me now.

All in I was sick for over six weeks. dropped to 78kg from 90kg. 10 weeks after being sick I still felt off probably took three months or so to feel 100% again.

It was an interesting if some what scary experience (looking back anyway).

You do sometimes hear about miracle doctors claiming to have cured it. A few lads in town were told by the doc they had it and were given some paras and some other crap to cure it. Sure enough they were better a few days later.

Same time I came down with a mild flu.