Chikugunya Fever

I fall sick for almost three weeks now. It was started as fever and body ache when i was in Beijing.That day we just visiting the tianmen square and the forbidden city. Our tour guides says we walked past 7 kilometer that day.No wonder i was dead tired.

The next day we tried to buy fever medicine from the pharmacy around the corner.However we cannot find any medicine on English labels. All in Mandarin.We end up buying fever medicine with strange name . We I took it ,it doesn't cure my fever, yet it caused my heart to run faster.The moral of the story is, next time, when you travel, bring along some medicine with you. just in case you need it.

My fever was never subsided when I reach home. The whole body become painful. My joints also painful.I feel nauseated and felt very dry. I can't swallow anything,I can't move around so i just choose to sleep.There was rashes on my both hands and feet.But starangely there was no sweat at all.Usually when i got fever, sweat will come after I took some paracetamol.I choose to treat my ownself. [well, being a doctor, I always thought i know more about my self]

Chikugunya fever is a viral infection. The virus was distributed by mosquitoes[ aedis agepty], ie the same mosquitoes that distribute denggi fever.In medicine, we call it vector.Last months was the highest incidence of chikugunya fever in our country. Probably i got infected when i was at my kampong. Our neighbour claimed there were almost everybody in the village get the same symptoms of fever joint pain and rashes.

Unfortunately there is no specific treatment for chikugunya fever.We give paracetamol to reduce the fever, alot of water, pain killer, and prednisolone and most importance is to have bed rest.I found it is releiving after drinking air zam zam[ holy water usually taken along by hajj pilgrimage]. i don't have enough stock, but i managed to buy from petronas petrol station along the kesas highway.So my advice for those who have the same symptom like me, buy zamzam water, and drink it as much as you can.It may cure you..