Dengue virus transmits through the bites of infective female Aedes mosquitoes. The virus is not contagious and does not spread directly from person to person. It goes from person to mosquito and then to another person .presently there is really no specific medicine to treat dengue, people with low immunity are stroked by dengue ,the white blood cells decreases in the body exposing the person to illness.
Common symptoms of dengue fever are :--very high fever, nausea, headaches, rash and very low blood platelets count.

The fever starts with chills, headaches, pain in the eyes, and also low backache. the legs and joints pains occurs during the first few hours of illness. The temperature may rise fast as high as 104.degree F , with low heart rate (bradycardia) and low blood pressure (hypo tension). The eyes become red, pale pink rashes appear first and disappear after sometime.Lymph nodes in the groin and in the neck gets swollen.Dengue last for two to four days and then rapid drop in temperature
occurs(defervescence) with profused sweating. After which everything seems normal for a day and
then again the second attack of rise in temperature follows with rashes all over the body except the face ,The palms and the soles may become bright red and swollen.

Appropriate medical attention often saves the lives of patients with the more serious dengue hemorrhagic fever.To aid recovery, It is recommended:----

• Take plenty of bed rest
• Drink lots of liquid to avoid dehydration.
• Take medicine to bring down fever,headache and joint or muscle pain, but always avoid taking Aspirin and non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, as these drugs may increase the bleeding tendency associated with some of these infections
• A platelet transfusion is indicated in some cases if the platelets level falls significantly juice of papaya leaves is recommended for curing dengue fever two tablespoons of papaya leaf juice once a day, made from squeezing 4 leaves (not the stem )is to be given to the patient ,do not heat the juice.Even though it taste bad ,it would help to come out of this illness.
• Nutritive value of papaya leaf:-- papaya leaves contains very high amounts of vitamins A, C, E, K, B Complex and especially high in B17 (laetrile, which is said to be used for the treatment of cancer). Moreover, papaya leaf juice increases the number of WBC count (white blood cells) in our body.
• papaya leaf juice could be given along with other medicines to the dengue patient

Taking adequate rest and drink plenty of water and other fluids, whether the patient is hospitalized or not.Natural cure could help the dengue patients to recover from the sufferings of dengue .
The most important thing to remember is to keep the environment clean to check the spread of dengue ,do not any place unturned as it may become a breeding place for the mosquitoes.


NOTE:---Papaya leaves' juice is also known to cure leukemia.,breast cancer and many other diseases apart from dengue.