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04/18/2016
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It can lead to serious complications, especially in adults. Learn more about it.
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Chickenpox or chicken pox is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by varicellae herpesvirus whose transmission occurs from person to person by direct contact or respiratory secretions, most often in children under 10 years and may also affect teenagers or adults.
The doctor can easily diagnose varicella according to the visible skin lesions or by specific tests, and the incubation period is 14 to 16 days, ranging from 10 to 20 days after contact and while there vesicles or bubbles, the infection is possible.
Signals and symptons
- The varicella lesions are at first located in the chest area and may extend throughout the body, even the face of the region;
- Headache;
- Mild fever;
- Rash (are fluid-filled blisters);
- Itching in the lesions and blisters;
- The time between the first lesions and formation of crusts in all lesions is about ten days;
Attention & Care
- Varicella or chickenpox may lead to serious complications, especially in adults due to the risk lung, brain (encephalitis) or in the skin.
The wounds or chickenpox blisters generally do not leave scars, however, is scratched, it may lead to permanent scarring.
- Chickenpox in a pregnant woman can lead to fetal malformation.
- Children can also suffer these complications, but in them are much more rare.
Tips:
- People infected with the nails should be always cut, it prevents, by scratching, injuries come wounds and promote infections.
- Avoid places of great throng of people, such as schools, offices and other places of study and work, because people infected with chickenpox can infect other people very quickly.
- Pregnant women who have not had chickenpox or been vaccinated should not avoid all contact with people infected by the disease;
Remember:
The best form of prevention is viral tetra vaccine that has 97% efficiency and, in addition to preventing chickenpox also protects against measles, mumps and rubella. Once developed the disease, there is no recurrence in this patient.
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