Symptoms of
Chikungunya
includes fever, debilitating arthralgia (joint pain), swelling of joints,
stiffness, myalgia (muscular pain), headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting and
rash.
Homeopathic medicines
prescribed according to clinical presentation of the patient are very
effective for relieving complaints during Chikungunya.
Patients who
have contracted Chikungunya Virus infection are found to have incapacitating joint pain or arthritis,
stiffness and swelling of joints for weeks or months.
Many Chikungunya patients cannot do their routine work for several weeks
after illness due to
debilitating stiffness and joint pain, weakness etc. Additionally, some
patients have reported prolonged fatigue lasting several weeks. Loss in terms of absence at work is very huge.
Homeopathic
drugs like Sulphur, Lycopodium, Colchicum, Ledum Pal, Arnica, Eupatorium
Perfoliatum, Ruta etc. when given according to symptoms of the patients,
relieves sufferings after Chikungunya very effectively.
During
epidemics the concept of "Genus Epidemicus" of Homeopathy helps against that
disease. According to this concept clinical picture of a group of patients in a
particular locality is studied and the most suitable remedy is selected as
the Genus Epidemicus for that particular epidemic. This remedy is given to
all healthy people in that locality in order to prevent them from suffering
from that disease. This remedy increases person's immunity to such level
that even after infected mosquito bites, it cannot produce active disease in
the person's body.
It is always
wise to have medicinal prevention as mosquito bite cannot be prevented at all
times. Chikungunya mosquito (Aedes Aegypti) bites in daytime so it is
practically very difficult to prevent mosquito bite when you are working
outdoors.
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