Chickenpox is in season: Not caring properly will leave many sequelae, even life-threatening

Here are the symptoms of chickenpox and how to prevent important illness, anyone should equip themselves to prevent disease.

Symptoms of chickenpox:

1. Incubation period

About 14-17 days after infection (chickenpox virus infection), symptoms of fever appear about 38 ° C and last 1-2 days, accompanied by headache, drooling, coughing and millions of other evidence.

2. Fever, headache, discomfort, loss of appetite

After the child is infected with chickenpox virus, there will be incubation period of about 2 weeks, the baby will have early symptoms such as fever, headache, physical discomfort, anorexia, .

At this time, symptoms are very similar to colds and parents should pay attention to distinguish. Once your baby has cold symptoms in the spring or winter, it is best to use cold medicine, because anti-cold medicine in the early stages of chickenpox has a certain effect on chickenpox.

However, once you find that your child does not have a cold, but signs of chickenpox, take him or her to the hospital as soon as possible for treatment.

3. Appearance of floating skin nodules

After the above symptoms appear, on the skin will appear nodules, herpes in batches. A few hours or a day, the child's skin will gradually appear with characteristic acne spots, initially only in the abdomen or back like a red bite emerging like a mosquito bite, the number in general is only 1-2 notes.

After a few hours, the red spots will develop to the wrists and legs, and some become blisters (the blisters at this time also increase gradually, initially as small as millet seeds and increase to the size of bean).

4. Floating nodules, blisters

Around 24 hours later, the face, back, abdomen, limbs of the child will appear red spots and blisters, some will start to break and leave a wound, lasting about a week, until When the wound is dry, the skin will peel off.

Chickenpox nodules are more common in the region of the body, head and face are second, less limbs, less palms and soles.

Tips to take care of your baby when having chickenpox:

Keep clean

When chickenpox, infection is the most common complication, manifested mainly as skin infection. When on the red spots, itching often scratches the broken, scratched skin, making it easier for external bacteria to penetrate into the pus and leave a concave scar. More severe, germs can penetrate from vesicles into the blood, cause sepsis, meningitis . very dangerous, can cause patients to die.

Many people believe that when a child gets chickenpox, he must absolutely abstain from water, abstain from the wind, so he does not bathe or wash his child. Pediatricians said that there are many cases due to not keeping the hygiene clean, causing children to have infections.

Ideally, clean the child by cleaning the guava leaf, bitter leaf, boiling to make it warm, then use a soft, thin cloth to soak the child gently. It should be noted, when cleaning, bathing children need to be very gentle, absolutely do not let the beans become slippery, watery, because if the water in the beans flow to where the acne is there, within 1-2 days all over you.

After cleaning the child, use a towel to dry the baby dry, then wear a wide, soft and airy clothes for the child. If properly treated and kept clean, only after 7-10 days, the nodules will collapse, dry and flake and the bruises will go away after a while, leaving no scars.

Need to isolate the sick

Chickenpox is easily transmitted by inhalation and spread by contact with vesicles or other living equipment containing the virus. Want to treat quickly, first isolate the patient. Although only a few spots appear, they must be isolated from all other children, including adults who have not had the disease, or the risk of spreading is very fast.

In addition, usually only one person gets chickenpox once and has long immunity, but if the weak resistance can recur when there is an outbreak, so even if your child has had chickenpox, be aware expose children to people who are suffering from the risk of recurrence.

Need to clean rooms, mats, clean sheets. Let your child stay in an airtight room but not wet and remember to keep them clean and clean, remind them not to break them.

Treatment for children with chickenpox

In the case of children only ulcers a few nodules, can use the old oxygen to wash the ulcers and use dry dots but it should be noted, put the specimens into plastic bags sealed to avoid spreading the disease to others. After that, apply the right medicine in the middle of the nodule (however, there are many types of medicine that are suitable for each disease that is severe or mild, so want to give your child a topical or topical medication that requires a specialist's opinion) . In the course of treatment parents need to monitor carefully, promptly bring children to hospital immediately after complications.

When ruptured, many nodules are taken, the child should be taken immediately to the hospital for treatment. Because a breakdown of acne can cause dehydration, infection leads to dangerous complications. Because in fact, there have been many children with many skin abrasions have been dehydrated, must have a special treatment regime, daily washing, infusion, injection of anti-bacterial drugs.

Give your baby enough nutrition

During the period of illness, children need to eat enough nutritious food, eat easily digested items, not necessarily abstain unless the child is allergic to certain foods.

In particular, children should eat thin, drink chicken broth, drink plenty of water to rehydrate because children lose water when acne break, slipping.

 

If you see a nodule with cloudy water and not a clear color, it means that you have bacterial infection or if your child coughs, fever rises more tired, headache, vomiting, more slowly . then you need to take your child to the hospital immediately . It is possible that the child has one of the most common complications: dermatitis, pneumonia, meningitis.