After a few days, he came down with fever and it happened to be Friday the 13th morning ....a coincidence ?
He had a very high fever, hitting 39.2 C and hovering in the 38 C range. Even after sponging him with wet towels and asking him to take a shower, the fever refused to come down. So after dinner, we decided to return to the clinic but it was closed so we went to the Raffles 7x24 clinic instead. They could not find anything wrong and the medication given seems correct so we went home.
That night, his temperature continued to hover between 38 and 39 C and he shivered quite badly when I sponged him with a few wet towels, a few times. Eventually, I gave up as I was too tired from lack of sleep... around 4am.
On Sat morning, I called the clinic and after discussing with the GP his condition and also the fact that there was at least once case of dengue fever in our area, I took Jas to the hospital lab to test for dengue fever.
After 2 hours of waiting, the GP called me and that Jas indeed has dengue fever but his blood count was still within range but at the lower end, borderline... at 156!
We have to monitor the blood count ( esp the white cells count ) daily to ensure that it did not drop below 80 else he needs to be warded and have a blood transfusion.
The blood count dropped to 120 on Sunday and it is now 121 today.... a good sign that it is going up ..we hope!
So another blood test tomorrow morning!
BTW, in between the fever, he vomited and also has diarrhoea so it was really tough on him and he did not eat well on the first 2 days. He lost 3 kg, so far!
His case is considered a mild dengue fever, according to the GP.
There is no medication to treat dengue fever other than some panadol or paracetamol to help with the headache and fever. Just need to ride it out...... sigh
We hope he wil be back to his normal self by end of this week, latest... and celebrate the Chinese New Year then!
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