Treatment of chickenpox

As treatment is recommended bed rest, to give the body the ability to cope with the disease. Oatmeal bath with warm (not hot) water can help relieve itching and soften the crust on the skin. In addition, anti-itch help oral antihistamines and lotions for spot application. To avoid secondary infections and skin lesions, it is recommended before their application as short as possible to shave off the nails.

Now there are antiviral drugs that effectively help to cope with chickenpox, but they usually do not allow children. These drugs are sometimes prescribed to adults and teenagers who have chicken pox runs hard and there is a risk of more severe symptoms than the majority of patients with this diagnosis.

Some doctors recommend taking antiviral drugs for people living in the same house with the patient. The probability of contracting them is very high; moreover, they tend to chickenpox be severe.

Do not take aspirin to relieve the symptoms of chickenpox Symptoms of chickenpox - characteristics . It can cause dangerous complications such as Reye's syndrome. Ibuprofen increases the risk of secondary infections. Safe for most patients with chickenpox acetaminophen.

And would not like to say - why did suffer a little, it is better to have been ill adults - far from it. Chickenpox is a "childish" disease - and they are extremely difficult to carry adults.

Severe chickenpox

Severe chickenpox can develop at any age, but most often it still occurs in adolescents and adults. Men suffer heavier than women, why - is not currently installed.

Severe chickenpox begins abruptly, with a very high fever, headache, joint pain Joint pain - how to understand what is going on?   and muscles. After 2-3 days on the skin rashes occur in stages. The same rash may appear on the mucous membranes, including in the area of ​​the larynx and vocal cords, which can cause respiratory failure - varicella cereals.

Cough chickenpox is one of the signs of the virus (chicken pox) pneumonia, which can develop in the first days of the eruption period. The condition of patients is often complicated by additional bacterial infection, while patients hold high fever, dyspnea, and cough with bloody sputum. If such a patient is not provided timely aid, he may die.

Atypical chickenpox

Chickenpox can be uncharacteristic (atypical) within. First of all - it is asymptomatic and low-symptom forms of chickenpox, when the skin looks healthy baby emerges from one to several elements of the rash, which may not be noticed by adults. Sometimes a rash does not happen at all, however, immune to chickenpox formed.

There are atypical forms of chickenpox rash The rash of chickenpox - characteristic bubbles with clear content   - Gangrenous and haemorrhagic. These forms are called malignant, as they are hard to occur. Gangrenous form develops in patients with reduced immunity Immunity - types and characteristics in children in adults   accession bacterial infection: the bubbles appear on the site areas of necrosis with subsequent formation of nonhealing ulcers.

If the child received glucocorticoid hormones, it can develop hemorrhagic form of chickenpox with bleeding and bloody vomiting. Help patients with these forms of chickenpox can be only in a hospital.

Immunity after chickenpox

It is believed that lifelong immunity after chickenpox. This non-sterile immunity, because the chickenpox virus after the disease is not destroyed or removed from the body and goes into an inactive state, and "hiding" in the nerve ganglia (clusters of nerve cells and their appendages). Varicella zoster viruses are activated when lowered immunity (for example, by supercooling). They descend on twigs nerves to the surface layers of the skin, multiply in epithelial cells and produce characteristic blisters on the skin in the projection of the passage of nerves involved. This disease called shingles (herpes zoster.). For people without a history of chickenpox. It is no less contagious than the children's infection.

How many times suffer from chickenpox? Usually only once. But in recent years, cases of recurrent disease, which is associated with one hand with impaired immunity, and the other - with a change (mutation) of the pathogen.

Effective prevention of chickenpox can be only in the form of vaccination.

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What you need to know about antibiotics

The child should drink a full course of antibiotics, ie, throughout the period referred to a doctor, or until there are no more of a tablet or powder for suspension. In most cases, improvement comes a few days after you start taking antibiotics. But in order to antibiotic acted and completely destroyed the bacteria, it takes time. If you stop taking antibiotics prematurely, the remaining bacteria can begin to multiply again, which will lead to an aggravation of the infection. Furthermore, in case of interruption of treatment there is a risk of development of bacterial resistance to the antibiotic Antibiotics - whether they will help you in the foreseeable future? Which means that in the future it will be ineffective and will have to choose another drug for treatment.

Often, the use of antibiotics in children can cause nausea Nausea - there may be problems with the nervous system , Vomiting and diarrhea. To make up for lost fluids, let your child drink plenty of liquids. For this purpose it may also be used for oral rehydration solution.

Do not give your child medicine to stop diarrhea Diarrhea (diarrhea) - a familiar nuisance Without the express instructions of the doctor - it could worsen his condition.

Try to give the medicine at the same time, and carefully measure and add the necessary dose if you are using a suspension.

Never leave the remains of the drug "for the future." Unused powder or tablets should be discarded.

Give antibiotics only child, whom he appointed. Do not give antibiotics to other children, even if they have similar infection - it may harm them.

Antibiotics kill the bacteria, viruses are not. This means that antibiotics are ineffective against colds, group, and other viral infections.

What else you need to know about Amoksiklava?

Amoxiclav contains amoxicillin - the substance penicillin group, so the drug is not recommended for children who have been allergic to penicillin.

Where should amoksiklav?

Keep it in the closet, in a dark, cool and out of reach of children, protected from direct sunlight and moisture. Optional amoksiklav stored in the refrigerator.

Keep amoksiklav Amoxiclav - an effective tool against infections   should be in its original packaging.