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Fever, Philippine hemorrhagic (health) and irritant(1) (iou)


Fever, Philippine hemorrhagic (health)


A syndrome due to the dengue virus that tends to affect children under 10, causing abdominal pain, hemorrhage (bleeding) and circulatory collapse (shock). Known also as dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), it starts abruptly with high continuous fever and headache plus respiratory and intestinal symptoms with sore throat, cough, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Shock occurs after 2 to 6 days with sudden collapse, cool clammy extremities, weak thready pulse, and blueness around the mouth (circumoral cyanosis). There is bleeding with easy bruising, blood spots in the skin (petechiae), spitting up blood (hematemesis), blood in the stool (melena), bleeding gums and nosebleeds (epistaxis). Pneumonia and heart inflammation (myocarditis) may be present. The mortality is appreciable ranging from 6 to 30%. Most deaths occur in children. Infants under a year of age are especially at risk of death. It is also called Thai or Southeast Asian hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome.





irritant(1) (iou)



irritant adjective1 & noun. E17.
[from IRRITATE verb1 + -ANT1.]
A. adjective.
Exciting, provocative, rousing. E-M17.
Causing physical (or occas. mental) irritation; irritating. E19.
R. Adams Buckthorn had been bitten..and the wound..was irritant and painful. P. Parish Potassium salts are irritant when taken by mouth; they may cause ulceration of the stomach.
b. noun. An irritant substance, body, or agency; a poison etc. which produces irritation; fig. something which is (mentally) irritating. E19.
Jonathan Miller Any irritant which succeeds in entering the windpipe..excites the..cough reflex.
irritancy noun1 irritating quality or character; irritation, annoyance: M19.