Symptoms of scarlet fever

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Scarlet fever is an acute respiratory infection caused by a group of hemolytic streptococcus. It is called rotten throat Sha in traditional Chinese medicine. Its clinical manifestations are fever, pharyngitis, diffuse bright red rash and desquamation after rash. Scarlet fever can occur throughout the year, especially in winter and spring. Mainly through air infection, but also through the skin wound or birth canal infection.

Symptoms of scarlet fever

Common type, more than 95% of the patients belong to this type, the course of disease is about a week, clinical manifestations, fever, systemic poisoning symptoms, because of laryngitis and typical rash, submandibular and cervical lymph nodes show non suppurative inflammation.

In recent years, the proportion of patients has increased and the course of disease is short. The clinical manifestations were low fever, mild sore throat, rare rash, subsided quickly, no obvious desquamation, but allergic reaction could still occur.

Sepsis, relatively rare, manifested as severe suppurative inflammation of the pharynx, exudate more. If the bacteria spread to the surrounding tissue, it can cause sinusitis, suppurative otitis media, mastoiditis and other related diseases. It can also cause sepsis and migratory purulent lesions.

matters needing attention

Scarlet fever is a serious infectious disease. Therefore, we should pay more attention to the timely detection and prevention of scarlet fever. During the epidemic of scarlet fever, patients with scarlet fever should be treated in isolation, and suspicious patients should also be treated in isolation. During the scarlet fever epidemic, we should avoid activities in crowded public places.