Dengue Fever and High Blood Pressure

First of all. I'm not a physician,Doctor, Medical student to write this article on Dengue fever.

But I have been a Dengue patient for 16 days now from 2009/05/27

my age 26.

weight 73kg

hight 179cm

Initial symptoms - fever, loss of appetite on food, vomiting (black/red) , diaria , sever muscle pain,

platelet count - drop from 136 to 14 *10^9 /L later increased ..

Dengue Antibody test

Dengue antibody IgM - Positive

Dengue antibody IgG - Positive.

I was admitted to Kandy Hospital Sri Lanka ward number 33 under two consultants physicians

DR: Harith Wimalaratna

DR: Rukman

According to my knowledge I was given medicine to get rid of vomiting and some other...

given penicillin 4 times a day ,

I have no family legacy of having high blood pressure (HBP) and I have never got a chance to check my HBP earlier in my life .

at initial days my BP appeared to be normal. But later it was recoded that I'm having a BP of 140/80 , 150/80 and on some days 160/80 ,

Tests I did

Ultrasound scanning

• Gallbladder is smooth and no calculi Or cholecystitis
• Liver echo pattern is normal
• No masses or dilatation
• Pancreas, CBD ,para-aortic areas are normal
• kidneys normal
• No Calculi, masses or hydronephrosis
• Urinary bladder is normal
• No pelvic masses

The Cardiac echo test

revielved that all the Cardiac functions normal . There has been no sign of HPB preexistence. Didn't reveal any structural cardiac pathology other than mild variation of mitral valve {this is all I could extract from the reports :) }

I was given with a medicine course of

METHYLDOPA 500mg 2 tabs morning /evening

nifedipine tablet 20mg morning/evening

I have been continuing this for around 6 days and Yesterday I was discharged from the ward since my last readings of HBP was

130/80 , 120/55 , 140/80

yet I was instructed to measure blood pressure daily and continue the above medicine course .

I heard that there were 2 other patients who have had HPB after Dengue and it was new consequent of Dengue fever .