Clinico-social Profile of Dengue Patients Admitted in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Southern Maharashtra, India

Abstract

Background- Dengue is a positive-strand RNA virus of the Flaviviridae family with 4 distinct serotypes transmitted to humans by several species of the Aedes mosquito. Objective- To study the Clinico-social profile of Dengue patients admitted in a tertiary care hospital in Southern Maharashtra, India. Methodology-This was a hospital based descriptive observational study undertaken in inpatient wards of Medicine and Peadiatrics at the tertiary care hospital from January 2018 to December 2018 where all the confirmed cases of dengue patients were included which were 90. Result- Of these 90 cases, (58.70%) were males and (41.30%) were females.High proportion of dengue cases were in 31 to 45 years (42%) followed by cases in the 46 to 60 years (31%).Seasonal variation showed that maximum cases occured in Post-monsoon (51%) and Monsoon (42%) season and maximum cases (75%) belonged to classical dengue fever while (25%) belonged to Dengue haemorrhagic fever. The most common symptoms were headache (74%), abdominal pain (61%), vomiting (55%), arthralgia/myalgia(48%), retro-orbital pain(47%) and hepatomegaly (38%). Conclusion- There should be community involvement in prevention of Dengue by the use of personnel protective measures or source reduction by emptying the man made containers etc. for eliminating vector-breeding sites especially during the monsoon season.