How to Approach Chickenpox

Chickenpox is a viral infection and the signs of chickenpox are tiny blisters on the skin. Children normally contract chickenpox during preschool or elementary school years. It occasionally will infect adults who did not contract it as a child. Chickenpox is harder adults but I don’t know why but it may be because the older you get your immune system is not as strong.

1-Chickenpox is transmitted by direct contact with droplets from the nose or mouth of an infected person. It seams to be most contagious just before and immediately after spots develop.

2-When a child or adult contracts chickenpox the usual treatment is bed rest and plenty of fluids if there is fever. Isolation of the infected child or adult is essential to prevent the spread of infection to others.

3-After being infected with chickenpox after couple of days of discomfort, appetite loss, and headache the rash will start to show with small pink spots and then turn into pimples surrounded with small red halos. The pimples become itchy blisters with clear fluid.

4-Next the blisters turn into scabs. Once all the blisters have crusted into scabs the disease is no longer infectious

Chickenpox usually last no more than twenty one days.

Warning-Chickenpox can be fatal to people that already have a low immune deficiency.Chickenpox is dangerous to the unborn baby in a woman.You should see your doctor if a high fever occurs of if blisters develop a yellowish discharge.

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DenaBolton said:

	... Get this -- my kids got chickenpox when they were very young and did just fine. I also got it (at the age of 24). My kids' pediatrician laughed and told me that I was going to wish I were dead. (Strange sense of humor, that woman.) She was right, tho.
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