What Is chicken pox?
chicken pox is caused because of virus named as varicella zostervaricella zoster. People who get affected with that virus may develop blisters like rashes or spots on whole body. The blisters are normally small and appear on red skin area. Almost certainly says that chicken pox is itchy. The illness is come with cough and runny nose.
Good thing is that for kids, this chicken pox is common illness and most people feel better by taking rest as like flu or cold and other good news is that because of chicken pox vaccine, children do not get chicken pox. When the kid suffering from this once got the shot then he/she feel better quickly.
What Happens after the chicken pox?
At the starting of chicken pox, patient might have sneezing, a stuffy or runny nose, and cough. After one or two days, the rash starts, often in groups of marks on the face and chest. After that it spreads on whole body. Some times it may appear in mouth and ear of the person. Different amount of pox are vary from person to person. Many people get very little bumps while many enclosed from head to the toe.
At the primary stage, those rashes are appears as a pinkish dots and these dots are develop speedily. After twenty-four to forty-eight hours, the fluid present in the blisters gets gloomy and the blisters start to crust over.
In chicken pox, after blisters begin to crust over, new bunch of spots appear on the body. Growth of new chicken pox stops after seven days, sometimes it may stops after three days. It takes near about fifteen days for removing blisters totally and then that person no longer affected with chicken pox.
Spreading of chicken pox?
chicken pox is transmittable means anybody suffering from chicken pox easily transmit it to another. During first two to five days, chicken pox is transmittable when he/she is sick. It spreads when just rash shows up so sometimes affected person know that it is spreading the disease.
A person affected with chicken pox can transmit it to another also by sneezing or coughing. When he/she sneezes, coughs, talks or even laughs, minute drops come out from the nose and mouth. These minute drops contains full of viruses of chicken pox. Before anybody knows that it gets affected with chicken pox, the chicken pox virus has infected someone else.
The way to prevent spreading of chicken pox virus from person to person is that avoid the infected person from sharing same house or room, but it is not practical way. It can not spread indirectly.
Many chicken pox symptoms may be noticed and occur the rashes of chicken pox known as prodromal and other symptoms such as fever, sickness, and the decreased appetite. These rashes are looks like pinkish spot, red pimples or the blisters.
Causes of chicken Pox:
Mainly two factors are responsible for causing chicken pox. These factors are given below:
- Local skin infection because of over growth of the various bacteria.
- Irritation of the contact
chicken pox is mostly caused because of the virus named as varicella-zoster. This virus is also known as human herpes virus 3. Causes of the chicken pox are not obvious but it may because of swallowed air, hunger, overfeeding, and foods which contain many contents of carbohydrate. Other causes of chicken pox are also listed below:
- If you have very sensitive skin.
- Might be used a strong soap for a bath or take a long bubble bath.
- Illnesses for a long time
- Changes occur in the diet as like changing or weaning from breast milk to formula.
Symptoms of chicken pox:
Following are symptoms of chicken pox:
- Initially rashes occur on face and some part of the body and then spread on scalp and limbs. Sometimes it may occur in mouth and ears also.
- Many times it appears in mucous membranes particularly on the genitals and in mouth.
- The rash is frequently tickly.
- It begins as small pinkish spots which expand into blisters in some hours.
- Blisters then turn to scabs after 1 or 2 days.
- After 3 to 6 days new blisters get started.
- Numbers of blisters are different for different persons.
- The infected person may run a temperature.
- These symptoms are mild in young children.
- chicken pox lasts 7 to 10 days in children and longer in adults.
- Adults can feel very ill and take longer to recover. They are also more likely than children to suffer complications.
Treatments:
Most of the time chicken pox can be controlled at home. Rashes occurs in chicken pox are tremendously tickly. Several treatments for chicken pox symptoms which are used at home are given below:
- After every 3 to 4 hours, take a bath of cool water by adding baking soda in the water to the calm itching.
- For preventing infectivity from the scratching blisters, trimming fingernails can help out. It you suffer from little infant of chicken pox, then recover the hands of child with the mittens to reduce the scratching.
- Aspirin is not given to child because it has been connected with the Reye syndrome.
- Some of the time blisters are developed inside the mouth. Because of that patient is in trouble at the time when he is eating or drinking something. For controlling pain and removing dehydration, person must continue to drink fluid. To lessen the pain, give soft bland foods and cold fluids.
- Avoid the foods which are hot, acidic or spicy.
- Keep all the children at home and away from the school when chicken pox symptoms are identified in kid and take care until blisters gets crusted.
Medicines & Prescriptions of chicken pox which are available are given below:
- Swarnamakshika Bhasma - With the decoction of Kanchnar tree bark patient should take nearly about 120 mg of the Swarnamaksnika Bhasma at the morning and exening.
- Eladyarishta - 20 ml of Eladyarishta is to be taken with the water after taking the meal.
- In the second week, patient may get 125mg of the Indukala vati in morning and evening with the water.
