Scarlet fever in children?

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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. Now let's talk about the scarlet fever symptoms of children.

Scarlet fever in children?

The first is the common type. More than 95% of the patients belong to this type. The course of disease is about one week. The clinical manifestations are fever, systemic toxic symptoms, and non suppurative inflammation of submandibular and cervical lymph nodes due to laryngitis and typical rash.

The second type is surgical type or puerperal type, with mild poisoning symptoms and good prognosis. Pathogenic bacteria invade the human body from the wound or birth canal and cause human disease. The rash first appears around the wound or birth canal and spreads to the whole body.

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. The fourth is sepsis, which is rare. It is characterized by severe suppurative inflammation of the pharynx, and more exudates. 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

Thus, 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.