The Chicken Pox Viral Infection Caused By Virus VVZ

Chicken pox is an infectious disease caused by the virus chicken pox to zoster (VVZ), and mainly affects to the skin and the mucosa of the mouth and the throat. Disease considers of childhood, since although the babies are born with an immunity that confers its mother to them, this one disappears in the first year of life and the boy can acquire the disease by I infect direct.

The ailment has a period of incubation of 14 to 16 days before they appear the symptoms, and as much the children as the adults can infect the virus to each other; when the virus affects the adults can cause urticaria. The buds of chicken pox are stronger during the autumn and the winter, and seem to be that they follow one another in cycles of three or four years.

The virus transmits itself by direct bonding with the injuries of the skin or, most frequently, through the droplets of saliva of the affected people, almost always in the period in which not yet the symptoms have been pronounced. The secretions of the cutaneous injuries can infect the virus until they are dried completely. On the other hand, the indirect transmission through healthy carriers or objects is very rare.

Symptoms:

The patients generally do not present/display evident symptoms before the bud of the disease takes place that comes accompanied by fever, fatigue, headache and lack of appetite. The characteristic symptom is the appearance of reddish and flat spots that are taking relief little by little until becoming vesicles (a species of blisters).

These cause a great itch, they are broken with facility and they form scabs that are given off and disappeared in, approximately, two weeks. The process extends until the sixth day of the disease. The spots appear in all the body, especially in the trunk and the hairy leather in successive buds.

The healthy children can develop up to 500 skin injuries that, sometimes, leave a mark permanent. In serious cases the spots extend by the extremities and the face. In addition, they can appear sores in the mouth, the eyelids, the rectum, the respiratory vagina and routes.

Treatment:

The treatment goes to the lightening of the symptoms, mainly the itch:

• To use compress of cold water to reduce the itch.
• The patient must be in rather fresh atmosphere to avoid more eruption and annoyances.
• To cut the nails to avoid that the scratched one leads to a secondary infection.
• Frequent baths with soap, ideally of oats, and water.
• Topical medication against stinging feeling on the basis of anesthetic or antihistamine topics whenever those do not cause allergy in the skin.
• The calamine lotions or menthol, refresh and reduce the itch.
• If there is fever to take Paracetamol. Not to use aspirin because it can cause a serious reaction.

The doctor he will be able to prescribe antihistamine made up of oral route, like polaramine, benadryl or atarex, to alleviate the itch. Aciclovir and other medications anti-virus, are useful if the administration in the first 24-48 begins itself hours.

The objective of the vaccine is to avoid the propagation of the disease, its complications and the later reinfección in form of herpes to zoster. It can be administered in an only dose, is very well tolerated and, generally, it does not present/display important reactions in children and healthy adolescents.

The indirect effects are slight and they are pronounced in form of reddening, pain and inflammation in the area where it has been applied. Also, it can because I am annoying, fatigue, fever or nausea. The vaccine prevents the disease until in an 80 percent with the cases and it is administered to healthy children between 12 and 18 months of age.

Autor: Hidrocodone Para Dolores.

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