Tawa-tawa Tea Makes Dengue Fever Less Alarming

The mortality rate of those who are suffering from dengue fever is increasing specially during rainy seasons here in the Philippines. Mosquitoes multiply fast in dumpy areas and Aedes mosquitoes-the dengue causing mosquitoes are of course growing in number as well.

Within the rural communities in the southern part of the Philippines, dengue fever is really alarming. This is not because people are uninformed on how to take care patients suffering from this kind of fever but because, in most cases, the disease is discovered in its later stage and immediate medication is of no avail. The fact that there are no vaccines and medicines yet for such disease, when the patient’s platelet count drops 30, then a blood transfusion is the alternative of getting back the lost platelet. Local doctors argue that suspected dengue patients should submit for a platelet count earlier especially when an on and off fever is experienced for several days for early diagnosis.

Why is dengue fever discovered late in many cases? In most rural areas in the Mindanao, Philippines, there are no hospitals and if there are, it does not have the facility for platelet counting. Usually, the death of the relatives if unproved to be caused by dengue fever is blamed for supernatural punishments, heavenly calling and the like.

Tawa-tawa weed is believed to be the cure of dengue fever. Most Filipinos would resort to take plenty of water boiled from clean tawa-tawa weed with the hope to increase the number of platelet count. As soon as the family member suffered from an on and off fever for more than three days, a glassful of tawa-tawa will be administered to the patient in an unidentified volume as long as the patient choose to take it. Miracle as it may seem, more and more Filipinos especially in Mindanao claimed the effectiveness of the weed. This also prevents the financially unstable Filipino family from incurring a high hospital expenses for being confined due to dengue fever.

Tawa-tawa weeds can be found anywhere regardless of soil types in most areas of the southern and northern Mindanao, Philippines. One could hardly find it in industrialized and highly urbanized cities of the country. Though no authorized government or non government entities yet have proclaimed what this kind of weed can do to cure or prevent the virus, there are already tawa-tawa powered leaves sold in some pharmacies nationwide.

Along with the other food supplements and fruit juices, tawa-tawa tea is the prime liquid intakes by most of the dengue patients and the doctors of the community neither recommend nor prohibit the tawa-tawa tea.
The wonders of tawa-tawa weeds are not yet proven but there are current progressing medical studies seeking to unfold the tawa-tawa’s effectiveness for patients diagnosed with dengue fever.

One of the most important thing for the community is the belief that dengue is not that alarming with the tawa-tawa weeds cropping everywhere in the locality.

Dengue Fever

Dengue fever (pronounced UK: /ˈdɛŋɡeɪ/, US: /ˈdɛŋɡiː/) and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) are acute febrile diseases which occur in the tropics, can be life-threatening, and are caused by four closely related virus serotypes of the genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae.[1] It is also known as breakbone fever, since it can be extremely painful. It occurs widely in the tropics, including northern Argentina, northern Australia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bolivia[2], Belize, Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic,French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Laos, Malaysia, Melanesia, Mexico, Micronesia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay[3], Philippines, Puerto Rico, Samoa[4], Western Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad, Venezuela and Vietnam, and increasingly in southern China[5]. Unlike malaria, dengue is just as prevalent in the urban districts of its range as in rural areas. Each serotype is sufficiently different that there is no cross-protection and epidemics caused by multiple serotypes (hyperendemicity) can occur. Dengue is transmitted to humans by the Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti or more rarely the Aedes albopictus mosquito, both of which feed exclusively during daylight hours. [6]
The WHO says some 2.5 billion people, two fifths of the world's population, are now at risk from dengue and estimates that there may be 50 million cases of dengue infection worldwide every year. The disease is now endemic in more than 100 countries.[7]

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