 Namaskara, I am Dr. Basavaraj Kuntoji, Consultant Physician and Intensivist working at Manipal Hospital in Malesuram. Today I will be briefly talking about Dengu fever. As we all know during the rainy season and this year also we are seeing lot of Dengu patients and the most the Dengu fever happens because of the mosquito bite. So prevention is always better, so one need to take all preventive measures to prevent the bite of Dengu mosquito bite either at your home or at your office places or wherever you go outside also and once the mosquito bite happens after 3 to 7 days one can start developing the symptoms of Dengu fever which can be fever, severe headache, body pain, back pain, myalgia and all and this may last for 3 to 4 days or 5 days. Following the subsidence of the fever they may land up with critical phase and during the critical phase one can have a bleeding manifestation either in the bleeding in the brain, mouth, nose, urine or motion or they can have a low blood pressure or sometimes they can involve the organ like brain, kidney and liver and they can have a low blood pressure also and if this phase passes generally most of them will land up in a recovery phase and most of them will recover. So with respect to till what stage one can monitor themselves at home is one as long as they are able to eat well, they are able to take enough amount of liquids or soft diet they can continue to monitor at their home. Second if they do not have a warning signs, if they do not have a severe pain abdomen, if the LFTs are not HGOT, SGPT is not beyond 700 or 800 and third one if the platelet counts are above 50000 these patients can be monitored and continue treatment at home with the advice of the doctor can be done and as I said if somebody is unable to drink enough liquids, is having vomiting, is having pain abdomen, is platelet counts are less than 50000 and LFTs are deranged these patients needs to be admitted to the hospital and main thing in dengue fever we do not have any antiviral dengue manifestations and hence prevention is always better than the cure but however some patients whom I have mentioned those patients needs to be admitted to the hospital and even hospitalized patients we have seen majority of them have recovered.