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Causes, symptoms, forms and treatment of chickenpox

Chickenpox or varicella is a common disease among childhood infections. Developed after the disease immunity, proof enough. Relapses are extremely rare. The causative agent of chickenpox is dying, leaving the body. A vector of infection is the patient. The incubation period virus, chickenpox occurs three weeks. The disease is transmitted by airborne droplets way the virus is spreading in huge numbers when talking, coughing, sneezing.

The disease is dangerous for those who have not had a period from two to seven years, especially for adults. In other cases, chickenpox is easy. The mucous membrane is the entry of infection, i.e. entering the body via the upper respiratory tract, the virus multiplies there, and then enters the blood, and the blood spreads throughout the body. Fixation in the upper layers of the skin and mucous membrane allows the virus to manifest the characteristic rash.

Children chickenpox is easily tolerated and entering into the adult organism, the virus behaves aggressively, especially if the patient has a weakened immune system. Typical symptoms for chicken pox are: rash all over the body, General fatigue, high fever, sore throat. It is important to remember that this disease is not as dangerous as contagious. Don't leave home for three weeks (quarantine period) and contact with those who have not had chickenpox regardless of age, then you will not become a source of spread of the disease.


The symptoms purulent chickenpox

The initial stage of chickenpox vesicular rash appears on the head (in the scalp and behind the ears), and then rashes appear all over the body, including the mucosa, tongue, palate. Reddish-brown vesicular rash is not limited to the skin. It is often affects the kidneys, pancreas, esophagus, ureters, bladder.

In the next stage, the rash turns into blisters with a diameter of three millimeters and is accompanied by severe itching. Scratching the blisters can lead to the formation of depressions on the skin that last a lifetime.

The typical course of chickenpox – fever to 39.5°C (typically at the time the abundant manifestations of the rash), the duration of the rash three to five days, complications are not observed.

Form of chickenpox

Distinguish atypical forms of chickenpox that occur in the light (rudimentary) form or in the severe form (hemorrhagic, bullous, gangrenous, generalized) with an unusual, perhaps purulent, skin rashes. The outcome of such types of chicken pox is often fatal.

A rudimentary form manifested by isolated lesions on the skin and mucosa, not further filled with fluid and slight indisposition. For hemorrhagic form characterized by bleeding from the nose, gums, gastrointestinal tract and bleeding in the skin and mucosa, while the rash is filled with blood fluid.

Generalized form is manifested by a lesion of the internal organs, gives severe disease, sometimes fatal.

Bullous and gangrenous forms have purulent manifestations. Rashes, bullous vetrennay form become large flabby bubbles and are filled with clear liquid yellowish color. These bubbles tend to increase at the periphery and the connection to large education. Drying up, they burst, turning into a long non-healing wounds with a wet surface. Such a process due to epidermolysis streptodermii where varicella joined by streptococci and staphylococci. The disease is prolonged and requires treatment with antibiotics.

Progressive necrosis indicator of gangrenous form of chickenpox. Characterized by the appearance of bubbles around the gangrenous bezel extending around the periphery.

The bubbles are round, large (diameter of several centimeters) and are filled with bloody-purulent fluid. After opening of such education appears necrotic eschar. As a result of his rejection of the formation of deep, nonhealing ulcer with a festering bottom. All processes are accompanied by severe intoxication with high probability of death. This form is very rare, in most cases, children with low reactivity of organism.

All severe forms of chickenpox, including purulent, occur in people with a weakened immune system, and the presence of chronic diseases aggravates the disease and increases the risk of complications. The most frequent complications can be skin lesions with the presence of purulent processes – furuncles, cellulitis, abscesses. The basis for these effects is staphylococcal or streptococcal infection. Private this may be because of intense scratching itchy areas on the skin. Openedvetranary bladder is a source of purulent infection.


The treatment of chickenpox

Treatment of chickenpox requires hygiene to avoid secondary infection. Bed rest is essential during fever and rash. All of the elements of the rash are treated alcohol (aqueous 2%) solution of brilliant green.

Antibiotics are prescribed only in case of purulent complications and the presence of secondary infection. All appointments shall be made by the doctor after examination and diagnosis of the disease. The primary method of preventing chickenpox for adults and adolescents who were not ill in childhood, this infection is vaccination.