signs and symptoms of malaria and dengue

2. Malaria

3. Signs of malaria
• Enlarged liver or enlarged spleen.
• Malaria blood smears taken at 6 to 12 hours
intervals confirms the diagnosis.

4. Symptoms of malaria
• Anemia
• Chills
• Jaundice
• Coma
• Convulsions

5. • Fever
• Headache
• Jaundice
• Muscle Pain
• Nausea
• Sweating
• Vomiting

6. Case history
 A 25 years old man student.
 Lives in area of low vicinity.
 Comes to hospital with complaints of
malaise, myaglia, headache and fever of
4 days duration.
 He had an abrupt onset of coldness and
chills followed by 1 hour, later by a high
fever, headache, nausea and vomiting.

7.  The episode of chills and fever lasted
about 24 hours after which he became
asymptomatic.
 Fever: 103 F
 WBC count: 3300 cells/mm3
(4-11000cells/mm3)
 Abdominal pain

8. Differential diagnosis

9. malaria Typhoid
• Intermittent fever • Enteric fever
• Abdominal pain is in the left • Abdominal pain is in the overall
upper quadrant. belly.
• Headache is usually acute and
lasts for the whole duration of • Headache is usually dull.
illness.

10. dengue

11. Symptoms of
dengue
•The time between the exposure and onset
of symptoms ranges from 3 to 14 days, but
most often it is 4 to 7 days.
• Fever
• Headache
• Myalgia ( Muscular or bone pain)

12. • Nausea and vomiting
• Loss of appetite
• Increased sensation to touch
• Change in taste sensation
• Red and white patchy rashes
• Bleeding from gums and nose
• Decrease in platelet count (Thrombocytopenia)

13. Case history
 A 23 year old man
 Comes to hospital with high grade
fever, vomiting, severe back
pain, body pain, bleeding from gums
and nose
 Total platelet count: 69000 per
microlitre
(150,000-450,000 per microlitre)

14.  He was treated with dextrose solution
with multivitamin
syrup, Paracetamol, Dompreidone and
papaya juices.

15. references
 Medicinenet.com
 Pubmed.com
 Sciencedirect.com
 WHO.com
 Medicineplus.com
 eHow.com
 Medicinehealth.com