Chikungunya

Chikungunya or CHIKV,( chikungunya virus) is also often called a monsoon disease. This may be because there's an increase in the number or mosquitoes during the monsoon, which means that there is bigger probability of the disease being spread
Chicken guinea or chikungunya is virus that infected human when they get bitten by the Aedes mosquito that carries this virus. The Aedes aegyti is more likely to spread dengue and Aedes albopictus, the chikungunya virus. However both types of mosquitoes can spread both diseases. These mosquitoes can be found bitting throughout daylight hours though there may be peaks of activity in the early morning and late afternoon.
Symptoms of chikunguninea
The Symptoms are very similar to that dengue or or dengue fever. One cannot miss the prominent symptoms in a typical case of chikunguninea. After an incubation period of,3_12 days the following symptoms are noted.
High fever, headache
Overwhelming tiredness inability to complete normal chores
Pain and stiffness of the joints
Certain parts of the body which are in pain may also swell up.
Sleeplessness
Nausea
Ulcers in the mouth
Rashes on the body petechiae tiny purplish red spots on the skin or reddish measly rash usually on the extremities and upper body.
Eye infection
Severe weakness over a variable period of 5_7 days after the onset of symptoms.
It can be up to twelve days after infection that these symptoms begin to surface. However the Symptoms can begin as soon as two days after being bitten.
Acute stage
Chickenguinea fever affects all age groups and both genders are equally affected. .
Onset
Prodromal symptoms are rare. In the acute the onset is usually abrupt and sudden with high grade fever ( usually 102_105f) severe arthralgias, myalgias and skin rash,. Headache throat discomfort abdominal pain and constipation may also be evident. Conjunctial suffusion persistent conjunctivitis cervical or sometimes generalized lymphadenopathy maybe present.
Course of disease
The fever is usually of short duration and usually resolves in 3_4 days, in some patients a biphasic pattern of fever has been described with a febrile episode of 4 to 6 days followed by a fever free period of a few days followed by recurrence of fever ( usually 102_ 102 f) that may lost a few days.
Chronic stage
In a majority of the patients the joint pain resolve in 1 to 3 weeks. However the arthritis can persist in about 33 percent of patients for 4 months 15 percent for 20 months and 12 percent for 3_5 years.
Diagnosis
Several methods can be used for diagnosis.
A few patients develop Leucopenia
Elevated levels of aspartate aminotransferace ( AST) and C_reative protein
Mildly decreased platelet count.
Sorological tests, such as enzyme linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) may confirm the presence of IgM and IgC anti chikunguninea antibodies. IgM antibody levels are highest 3to 5 weeks after the onset of illness and persist for about 2 months.
Various reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction ( RT_ PCR) methods are available but are of variable sensitivity
Remedies
Polyporus pinicola 1m three doses for one day only.
Eupatorium perf 20 Potency after fever is over only body pain.
Joints pain after chikungunya Polyporus 6 c potency,
Bryonia Q odema and Pain in joints worse from movement.
Propylamin tri 30 pain in wrists and ankles worse motion tingling and numbness of fingers. After chikungunya.