What are the symptoms of scarlet fever

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Scarlet fever is a kind of disease that can attack all year round. It has certain infectivity. Therefore, in our life, we should understand the symptoms of scarlet fever in advance. This article will introduce the symptoms of scarlet fever to you.

What are the symptoms of scarlet fever

Symptom 1: prodromal phase. Most of them have sudden chills and fever. In severe cases, the body temperature can rise to 39 ℃ - 40 ℃. The patient will have headache, loss of appetite and general discomfort. In infants, they will have delirium and convulsion symptoms. The pharynx is red and swollen, and the tonsil can be seen with punctate or flaky secretions. The soft palate is congested and edematous, and there may be red macular or bleeding spots large in grains of rice, that is, intramucosal rash, which usually appears before skin rash.

Symptom 2: rash stage. Skin rash is one of the most important symptoms of scarlet fever. Most of them appeared from the first day to the second day. Occasionally, the rash appeared later than the fifth day. It starts from behind the ear, at the bottom of neck and upper chest, spreads to the chest, back and upper limbs within one day, and finally to the lower limbs. A few of them need several days to spread to the whole body.

Symptom 3: recovery period. Desquamation began within one week after the eruption, and the sequence of desquamation sites was consistent with that of eruption. The trunk is mostly furfural peeling, the palms and soles are thick with large membranous peeling, and the nail end chapped peeling is a typical manifestation. Desquamation lasted for 2-4 weeks without pigmentation.

matters needing attention

After having a certain understanding of the symptoms of scarlet fever, people should pay attention to avoid crowded public places, especially children, during the epidemic period of scarlet fever, so as to avoid infection and suffering from this disease.