Chickenpox in infants. Symptoms and course of the disease
Chickenpox in infants and young children isinfectious disease, which is characterized by the appearance of itching rash and fluid-filled vesicles. This disease is easy to diagnose, because it has very characteristic symptoms.
Features of occurrence and course of chicken pox
Chickenpox in infants, as in the restage groups, is caused by a virus that affects only a person and easily dies from heating, ultraviolet irradiation and sunlight. Infection occurs through the mucous membranes of the nose and mouth, from where the virus enters the blood and spreads throughout the body. Transmission of infection can occur when coughing, sneezing, talking and at the same time spread over long distances. Typically, this disease affects 5-9-year-old children. By the way, they tolerate chickenpox fairly easily. But babies and adults - much harder.
After the acute manifestations of the illness subsided,the virus continues to hide for some time in the body, and the child is still infectious even five days after the appearance of the last windmill. But the transferred chicken pox creates a permanent immunity, which does not give repeated infections.
Chickenpox. Symptoms and Treatment
Chickenpox in a child up to a year has the same asin the remaining diseased, the incubation period. It lasts up to twenty-one days. At this time, the virus actively multiplies, until it gains strength to overcome the body's defense.
Sometimes chicken pox can manifest as an increasetemperature and small rashes on the abdomen and chest, which quickly disappear. After that, the temperature "jumps" up to 39ºС, and then on the body, arms and legs, a rash is typical for this disease in the form of itchy bubbles filled with liquid.
Chickenpox in infants can manifest itself inrashes on the scalp, on the mucous membranes in the mouth, in the nose and on the genitals. Vesicles burst after a couple of days and, drying up, form crusts, which completely disappear for a skin in three weeks. But at this time there may be new podsypaniya, because of what on the skin of the baby you can see a rash in different stages of "maturation".
Diagnosing this disease is easy because ofpersuasiveness of the main symptom of chicken pox. But there is no special method of treatment yet, except for the recommendation to comply with bed rest, treat each element of the rash with a disinfectant and carry out hygienic care in order to avoid infection of the wound.
Complications of chicken pox
If you comb the itchy bubbles, then theyInflamed due to the penetration of pathogens into them. After that there is a suppuration, which, when healing, leaves on the skin unsightly scars, while the unsanded rash descends without leaving a trace.
How to avoid problems
The main thing that "requires" chickenpox in infants, -it's not to let the crumb scratch the bubbles. To do this, very small put on gloves, and older children are in every way distracted and entertained. In order that the itching does not excruciate so much, give the baby sedatives. But aspirin with chicken pox is categorically contraindicated! As with this disease, it can damage the liver.
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