Chickenpox in children: the disease and symptoms
Chickenpox is related to one of the most common, and most importantly, easily transmitted communicable diseases that only occur among children. One happy – times had been ill with chickenpox, the person gets to her stable immunity for life. And yet, the disease is much better tolerated in children than in adults.
Today we will talk about chicken pox in children, since it is a disease to treat conventionally childish.
Ways you can get infected with chickenpox have a few. Primary infection through the respiratory tract, but infection can enter via mucous membranes and eyes. If you read carefully, it is the term that refers to the disease, speaks volumes. Handed down through the air, the windmill is able to almost instantly lead to outbreaks of infection, which are developed into a local epidemic restricted to kindergarten or school.
Interestingly, many parents, in the case of chicken pox in a kindergarten or school, do not prevent the spread of the disease and for their child, preferring that the child has caught it now and not in adulthood, when the disease is at times difficult.
As soon as chicken pox enters the body, the child immediately becomes infectious and quarantine lasts up to 5 days after appearance of the first lesions on the skin.
Symptoms and the development of chickenpox
The incubation period of chickenpox can last from 1 to 3 weeks. In this period of time the disease is generally may not manifest itself. The minimum duration of the incubation period – 7 days. Once the incubation period ends immediately and bluntly begin to manifest all the symptoms.
First jumps temperature, and sharply to 39 degrees, sometimes slightly higher. If it does not appear skin rash, chickenpox is easy in the initial period can be confused with a simple cold.
Other symptoms may include headache and weakness throughout the body, pain in the joints, that is, again, the symptoms are quite worn, which may indicate a number of other diseases.
The main symptom is always a status change to the skin, which results in the beginning of the rash. First, there are small pink spots on the touch flat. The number of lesions increases in an arithmetic progression, and just a few hours increases and spreads throughout the body.
Now, instead of spots it is already possible to observe the appearance of small bubbles with the liquid not recommended to be subjected to mechanical stress. Rashes are localized not just across the surface of the skin but can appear on the mucous membranes of the mouth, genitals, eyes.
Rashes are always accompanied by severe itching, whilein the case of a child, it is a problem. Children can't endure the itch and rash combing, raising them simultaneously in a variety of bacterial infections that complicate the disease.
Rashes do not stay for a long period, however, at the time of illness, they occur rather in waves, that is, pass, and again formed new.
On the site of the rash crusts are formed, which gradually disappear. It is worth noting that at observance of all recommendations, the rash does not leave absolutely no trace on the skin.
Treatment for children chicken pox
Just say that, since we are talking about the virus, treatment makes no sense to use antibiotics, they still will not help. But if together with chickenpox the child has received and a bacterial infection, we have said above that the easiest way this happens at scratching the rash, the treatment will involve antibiotics.
Of course, it is necessary all ways to prevent child combed rashes.
Despite the relatively mild course of the disease, many doctors still advise at the time of illness and about two weeks to place the child in bed.
It is important to know what has so far not developed to treat chicken pox, that is, all the drugs that are prescribed, are symptomatic of and serve to treat the consequences but not the causes, and to facilitate the course of the disease.
You can give a few tips:
- To reduce the frequency of new lesions is recommended to frequently change the bedding and underwear no underwear of the child.
- Wet rash water cannot be used, this will only increase the itching and the healing process will last longer.
- From the diet food will need to remove allergens or products are most close to them, meaning to remove sharp and salty, sour, smoked.
- At high temperature the child should consume plenty of fluids.
- As for the blisters, they can be treated with brilliant green or manganese solution, drying with, thus the bubbles.
Also on our website you can read about chickenpox in adults.