"Dream - Scraping or scraping the body with a coin or tool when the body is experiencing flu or illness is very common in Indonesia. Scraping is believed to help the body recover faster."

"Usually done on the back and shoulder areas, not only on adults but also on children. This scraping can be fatal and very dangerous for some people. Especially if done on children who have a fever, who turn out to have dengue fever."

"Doctor Ian Suryadi Suteja, M.Med Sc, pediatric specialist, shared on his Instagram about treating a child patient who experienced extensive bleeding that turned out to be due to scraping. The condition showed bruising and significant bleeding."

"It explains that only the rash, the redness on the skin will disappear. Apparently, in that patient, when pressed, the rash did not disappear, indicating there is a lot of bleeding. Doctor Ian also showed the laboratory examination results of the patient whose identity is kept confidential."

"The lab results are like this, the blood viscosity is 47 which is very high, so this is dengue fever and the platelets are only up to 70 thousand. This means the dengue fever is quite severe," he stated.

"Doctor Ian explained that when someone is affected by severe dengue fever, their blood viscosity or hematocrit increases. Then, platelets show a significant decrease, where their function is as blood coagulants."