Porridge For Dengue Patients (Eel Porridge)

   Dengue fever could cause haemorrhage. It's caused by a type of virus spread by female Aedes mosquitoes. It's very dangerous if not treated early and may cause fatality. Actually there's no specific treatment. Only treat the symptom such as fever- give fever medicine and if dehydrated-on water drip ( given saline solution). Nothing much could be done. The patient's immune system has to do the fighting and extremely low platelets counts spelled danger.

  All 3 of my children got this fever before. Suspected that they got it from being at their tuition centre because the tuition teacher and son was down with dengue fever a few days earlier and was warded at a specialist hospital.Our house has mosquito nettings and I took extra precaution to keep away mosquitoes. A family friend recommended me to cook thick eel porridge with a little ginger (use freshwater eel is better and cook like cooking fish porridge - 1 cup rice, 1 eel  steam & take out the flesh, 3 cups water and a few slices of ginger, some fried garlic and fried shallots, a pinch of salt and little soy sauce - boil first then cook using low fire till rice is smooth and soft) because it is believed that it helps in improving platelet counts. Cooked that for my children to hopefully improve platelet count, gave them "100 Plus"(get rid of the gas), coconut water (is believed to be a good remedy for cooling and detoxification by Malay community) and made them drink lots of water (at least 1/2- 3/4 glass per hour except at night- about 2 cups) for cooling the body because to me, logically, water could dilute the strength of toxins and urinating more could maybe and hopefully flush out more toxins from the body. Luckily they recovered quite fast to my relieve and praise GOD for that. I was so scared  and worried then. Their platelet count improve each day I gave them eel porridge till become normal again. Maybe it's coincidence but my family friend swear by it because her daughter was admitted before for the same dengue fever and her platelet count also improve after taking eel porridge. No harm in trying because eel porridge is very nutritious and full of iron boost for red blood cells formation in the body since dengue fever is a haemorrhagic fever.


  I sincerely hope to share this experience and hope it will help those down with dengue fever although not exactly proven. Tell me if it works for you too but of course 'touch wood !' that you don't get dengue fever. I hope you know what I mean..... The tuition teacher and son drank lots of red guava juice because it was believed to help for recovering from dengue fever too (natural Vitamin C boost for immune system ?Probably yes too!) They recovered after more than a week in the hospital. My children was admitted to the hospital for 3 days. The earlier stage about 3 days high fever and 2 days intermittent mild and moderate fever (went to local GP only) which I thought was the normal kind of fever because they have sore throat too until I saw red patches of rashes on some parts of their bodies which made me suspicious and sent them to the hospital for blood screening. They were on water drips and on paracetamol medicine for fever only during their duration in the hospital. Another remedy which the Chinese believe helps to cure dengue fever is an organ part of the porcupine that can be bought from Chinese medical shop at exorbitant price. The last time I heard was RM 200 for very little. I didn't try it because I heard from my plumber about it after my children got well because he was down with that fever before and he spent quite a sum for the porcupine part. Another thing to remember is when having fever, don't eat oily stuff because it is believed that oily food slow down fever recovery. Better take precaution in case it's true...

Prescription : Could try some unproven scientifically remedies if it brings no harm to the body. Some natural remedies actually helps in some cases ( I am nuts about natural remedies and a believer but I balance out with western medication and Chinese medication - must know how to go about it or one might actually aggravate the situation instead of improving)