What is the characteristics of chicken pox?
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Lybrate-user following are the features of chickenpox fever, peculiar rash which looks like dew drop on rose petal which are present at all developmental stages, nausea, muscle aches, headache. Chickenpox rashes are painful and itchy too. Hope I solved your query regards.
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1. It is a highly contagious viral disease 2. It is caused by varicella zoster virus 3. It is characterised by small tiny blister on the skin. 4. Rashes first appear on chest, back, and face then spreads all over the body prodromal symptoms. Like fever followed by rashes comes in concurrent fashion hence new and old rashes are visible on the body. In younger brother children no fever only rashes occur on mouth face occurs directly 5. Other symptoms are fever headache itching and tiredness. Nausea loss of appetite 6. Patients remain infected up to 7 days after scab formation 7 infection occurs 10-20 days after exposure to virus 8 infection is airborne by coughing and sneezing and also come in contest to infected person 8. Complication by superimposed infection to the blister resulting pus in blister, pneumonia, encephalitis 9. It is more sever in adult than children 10 immunity life long after infection 11 prevention by isolation from infected person 12. It is a self controlled disease if hygiene is maintained no complication occur and become all right treatment of fever by paracetamol, you can apply caladryl lotion on blister for soothing effect some times antivirus acylovir is given to patient. Give him plenty of liquid diet 13. Immunization is given in some country 14 death rate is 1 in 60000 cases.
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