Chicken pox

Chicken pox's disease overview

What is

chickenpox?

Chickenpox is an infectious disease, the pathogen is the Varicella Zoster virus. Chickenpox is a benign disease, but if not treated properly, it will cause many dangerous complications such as pneumonia, meningitis, even death. Chickenpox may flare into epidemics, common in the spring.

Causes of Chicken pox's disease

Chickenpox is a disease caused by Varicella Zoster virus. Varicella Zoster virus causes chickenpox mainly transmitted through the respiratory tract, through small particles of water shot when the patient cough, sneeze or run the nose. In addition, the disease is transmitted when exposed to broken puffiness, or from the damaged skin areas of the patient.

More specifically, pregnant women with chickenpox can be spread to the fetus through the placenta, causing congenital chickenpox.

Symptoms of Chicken pox's disease

Chickenpox has diverse manifestations in each stage of the disease.

In the onset stage, patients often manifest systemic symptoms such as fever, headache, muscle aches. Diseases chickenpox in children often have no symptoms of warning.

In the full stage of the disease, patients often notice the appearance of "shots". At first, small round red spots grown quickly throughout the body or scattered within 12 to 24 hours. Then these notes progresses into blisters, puffiness, then dry, scales and completely recover after 4 to 5 days.

In addition to the typical symptoms of the disease, the patient may also face the manifestation of the complications of the disease such as:

Chickenpox pneumonia is a very serious and difficult complication. passionate about. The sequelae may then be accompanied by deafness, epilepsy, mental developmental retardation, etc. Having birth defects.

Not only in children, chickenpox is also seen in adults with the signs sometimes even heavier.

Transmission route of Chicken pox's diseaseChicken pox

Chickenpox is an infectious disease, easily spread in many ways:

The respiratory tract is spread by small water drops in the air from the respiratory tract such as the nose and mouth of the patient. Animals such as clothes, pillowcases are dirty of the patient's secretions. Sang when the mother has chickenpox during pregnancy

The duration of chickenpox is prolonged before the erythema 1-2 days until the puffiness is crusted. Toan.

See also: What are the paths of chickenpox?

Prevention of Chicken pox's disease

The disease can spread quickly and become epidemics, so chickenpox prevention is very important.

Currently, the most active and effective way to prevent chickenpox disease is vaccine vaccine. 2 doses for children over 12 months old to 12 years old., The second dose is at least 6 weeks away. The second dose should be vaccinated for children aged 4 to 6 years old to increase prevention effectiveness. For older children and adults, injecting 2 doses at least 6 weeks apart is best.

Other preventive measures should be noted when taking care of patients to avoid spreading as follows:

Isolate children infected at home until completely dry water burns to avoid spreading to other children.

Careers when interacting with patients need to wear masks, wash their hands with soap after contact with the sick.

Patients need to be used individual items such as towels, cups, forks, cups, etc.

Absolutely pregnant women do not come in contact with chickenpox.

Diagnostic measures for Chicken pox's disease

The diagnosis of chickenpox is mainly performed based on typical clinical symptoms such as puffiness and scales.

Determined diagnosis can be done by sampling on patients' skin lesions for testing.

Chicken pox's disease treatments

There is no specific treatment for chickenpox. Treatment is often focused on reducing symptoms and keeping patients from dehydration. So the care of chickenpox patients play an important role, need to ensure:

Eat enough nutrients, eat soft food, drink enough water, can drink more juice

Daily hygiene of nose and throat with physiological saline solution

Change clothes and bathe daily with clean water.

Avoid scratching the burns because it is easy to cause superinfection and scars, causing loss of aesthetics, if broken, the methylene green solution has applied.

Wear soft, spacious, airy clothes

Use antipyretic drugs in accordance with the instructions if high fever

Antibiotic can be used if there is an infection in the burns or complications such as pneumonia, meningitis.

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