Waterpox
Chickenpox is a disease that affects children under the age of 15. It is also called “chickenpox.” The reason for its spread is smallpox. It is a contagious disease. This disease can infect people above the age. It is easily transmitted from one person to another. It is usually mild, but it can be quite dangerous at times, and lasts for five to 10 days. The condition of adults over the age of 15 is more difficult in the case of infection. Itchy skin is considered very annoying, the patient’s high temperature, feeling The rash is small-sized vesicles, usually seen in the face, groin and scalp.
The smallpox should not be given aspirin pills to keep away from Ray’s syndrome. After the smallpox virus, it will continue to be present in the body. The same person may not have smallpox again but is susceptible to the disease of the region in adults. Smallpox can sometimes prevent a person from contracting the disease, or it can reduce the incidence of the disease if it occurs.
Transmission of chickenpox
The disease causes variola virus. This type of disease is strongly characterized by its enemy. It also causes the presence of a skin rash that works with continuous itching with fatigue and fever. It can be very dangerous especially in children under the age of 15 and adults. It can also be dangerous to The disease is transmitted from one person to another, especially those who have not had the disease before or did not take the vaccine for the disease. The disease is transmitted by direct contact of the vesicles located in the face or scalp or skin in general to the patient, or by touching the mucus or saliva of the patient , As it facilitates you He said through sneezing or coughing the patient through the air.
Smallpox is easily transmitted from people with the disease of the region, so that people who do not have chickenpox in advance, or who have not received the vaccine for the disease, and easy to transmit infection in at least two days, through the emergence of vesicles and rash, The infection was transmitted to him at least two weeks before and is considered one of the best ways to prevent the child or the person from the disease by taking the vaccine in it. Before the vaccines appeared, millions of people were infected during the year, showing immunity to the majority of people who were infected for the first time , And there are those who are repeatedly hit hard The water, but it is rare often.
Symptoms of chickenpox
If you have never had the disease, people who have not had a vaccine will be infected. The disease lasts for no more than ten days or less, and children with the disease often miss school or kindergarten for at least a week. In order to prevent the infection of other children, and the disease is known to have a skin rash changes to the vesicles causing itching, and within a week to turn the vesicles to peel, and the beginning of the emergence of skin rash on the face of the patient and then the chest and after the back and this is predominant and dizziness, and then spread throughout the body, Eye and soles of the mouth, genital area as well, and There are other symptoms that appear before the onset of rash two days or less, namely:
- Feeling physical fatigue.
- Persistent headache.
- High body temperature.
- Not wanting to eat.
- Some people who have been vaccinated may be infected, but the symptoms remain mild and mild from previous symptoms.
Diagnosis of chickenpox
It is not difficult to diagnose the condition of the patient with smallpox, as the diagnosis is by seeing the doctor or specialist of the spread of skin rash, and laboratory testing confirms the diagnosis of the situation when necessary.
Complications of chickenpox
Some complications may occur for people with the disease, but it is not quite common, but some cases may have serious symptoms, and this requires hospitalization, and people exposed to complications, are those with severe symptoms resulting from the disease, namely:
- Young children.
- A person over the age of twelve.
- pregnant women.
- They are immune, either because of certain diseases, or because of their medication.
There are also serious complications of the disease, including:
- Feeling dry.
- Inflammation of the lung.
- Hemorrhagic problems.
- Infections or so called brain encephalitis.
- Infection in the blood.
- Traumatic shock syndrome.
- Infection in bones and joints.
In some cases, although very rarely, this disease may cause death. Death may affect children or adults who have not received the disease. In this observation, many adults have died because of the transmission of the disease to their two children They were not vaccinated.
Treatment of chickenpox
An infected person can reduce the symptoms of the disease and can protect against skin infection.
- The person should not scrape the smallpox from his body.
- The skin area of the skin is clenched with chlorine.
- To relieve skin itching, use a colloidal oatmeal bath.
- Cut the nails down, to prevent you from scraping the vesicles.
- Aspirin tablets are not used to reduce heat, Ray syndrome may be caused in children with smallpox.
- You can use pendulum or other hypothermia away from aspirin.
Any person who has complications of the disease should consult with the competent doctor, especially in these cases:
- The heat lasts for more than four days.
- The temperature rises to 38.9 Celsius and higher.
- The presence of severe redness, and pimples in some parts of the body.
- Disturbances in his behavior or difficulty in alertness.
- Walking with difficulty, the occurrence of stiffness in the neck.
- Breathing hard, and coughing severely with persistent vomiting.
- It is possible to use the existing antiviral medication to treat smallpox, and your doctor can advise you of this type of treatment or others.
Prevention of chickenpox
The most effective way to protect against smallpox is to vaccinate since childhood. Parents should vaccinate their young children and adults with two doses of the vaccine. This vaccine is effective and safe to prevent the disease, as it protects the majority of the disease After receiving vaccination, and if one of the vaccinated vaccine, it will be very light in terms of lack of vesicles and size, and without feeling high temperature, as the vaccine may protect against all cases of severe disease, and you should communicate with health care providers, If this is hit Lat smallpox disease, namely:
- The person who did not have the disease, did not get the vaccination against the disease.
- A person who suffers from weakness in the immune system, based on a disease that he has or is taking for drugs that cause weakness.