Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Fever+Severe Knee Pain+Extreme Weakness+Too Much Painful Calf Muscles

People of Delhi and UP were suffering with fever and severe pain in joints mainly severe knee pain and extreme weakness followed severe painful/tender lower extremities mainly calf muscles and many of them are found tested positive for chikungunya.


Source:commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CDC-Gathany-Aedes-albopictus-1.

Dengue and Chikungunya are mostly diagnosed on the basis of clinical symptoms because diagnostic tests are costly and at times not accurate. Physicians/people should keep leptospirosis {a bacterial disease caused by contact with water/mud/soil/foods contaminated by the urine of infected animals mainly rats) in mind when facing patients with fever, arthralgia, myalgia, and weakness in post monsoon and early winter season as this bacterial disease too occurs in the setting dengue and chikungunya fever and treatment line is quite opposite leptospirosis is bacterial disease.


Recently, I got opportunity to treat some patients with these symptoms and patients responded well to following medicines given according to symptoms presented by patients.


Rhus Tox

Arsenic Album

Bryonia Alba

Nux Vomica

Phos.

Pulsatilla

Sulphur

Veratrum Album

Merc.Sol.

Eup-Perf

Ipecac


Preventive/Curative Homeopathic Medicines:  Rhus Tox 200C in morning and afternoon with Nux Vomica 200C in evening and at night before sleep is a very good therapeutic as well as preventive homeopathic medicines for fever+severe knee pain+extreme weakness+very, very painful calf muscles occuring in winters season.  These both medicines are quite safe for all age group i.e. kids, young, and old, but should be taken only after consulting any local homeopathic doctor.


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