What does measles look like

summary

Measles is an infectious disease of respiratory tract, mainly occurs in children, with fever, upper respiratory tract inflammation. Let's see what measles looks like.

What does measles look like

First of all: mild measles virulence reduction type measles virus infection, more common in the incubation period received gamma globulin injection, or less than 8 months of the body still have maternal antibody infants. Fever was low and upper respiratory symptoms were mild. The mucosal spot of measles is not obvious, and the rash is sparse. The course of disease was about 1 week without complications.

Second: severe measles fever up to 40 ℃, severe poisoning symptoms, with convulsions, coma. Rash fusion was purple blue, often mucosal bleeding, such as epistaxis, hematemesis, hemoptysis, hematuria, thrombocytopenia, known as black measles. The rash is few, the color is dim, often for the circulation bad performance. This type of children with high mortality, need timely treatment after the disease, to avoid the most serious situation.

Finally, no typical mucosal spots and rashes were found in the patients who had been injected with live attenuated measles vaccine. The clinical diagnosis of this type is difficult, only depending on the precursor symptoms and the increase of measles antibody titer in serum.

matters needing attention

Stay in bed, keep proper temperature and humidity in the room, keep ventilation and fresh air. Give easy to digest nutritious food, add enough water; to keep children's skin clean, usually can use salt water gargle, gargle several times a day.