What are the causes and symptoms of childhood rash?

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Adults infected with the virus, can not show symptoms, but will excrete the virus from saliva, transmitted to children, this is the source of infection of the disease. In cold winter, children spend a long time indoors. For the sake of keeping warm, the time of indoor ventilation is relatively short, and the indoor air circulation is not smooth. The chance of children suffering from respiratory diseases will be greatly increased, and children's rash is only one of them. In winter, we should also frequently open windows for ventilation to keep the air in the room fresh. We should take children to crowded and dense public places as little as possible to avoid respiratory tract infection? Let's talk about it.

What are the causes and symptoms of childhood rash?

The incubation period of children's rash is about 7-17 days, and children often have no obvious abnormality and discomfort before fever. The onset of the disease is acute, children often suddenly appear sharp temperature rise, mostly 39-41 degrees, fever, although the child's temperature is very high, but in a good mood, and can laugh, different from the general high fever children, at the same time can be mixed with pharyngeal congestion. Fever, the child's poor appetite, and diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, but these symptoms will improve with the drop in body temperature. Severe children sometimes have convulsions.

The rash often appears after the body temperature drops, a few appear when the fever will subside, and all subside within 1-3 days. After the rash subsides, there is often no trace, no pigmentation, and no peeling phenomenon. In the early stage of the disease, blood routine examination was conducted 24-36 hours, and the total number of white blood cells could be increased, and it could be reduced to normal level 3-4 days later. In general, there is no re infection of the disease. After recovery, the patient can be immunized for life.

For a child with a sudden fever, parents should closely observe the child's mental state and other accompanying abnormal manifestations, such as runny nose, cough, refusal to milk, diarrhea, vomiting, etc., and frequently take temperature. Once the child's temperature exceeds 38. 5 degrees, should give the child to eat antipyretic medicine in time, at the same time can take physical cooling method, such as cold water towel on the forehead, warm towel (or alcohol) wipe bilateral neck, armpit and thigh root.

matters needing attention

If the body temperature has dropped to normal, rash, generally do not need special drug treatment, at this time parents should care for the child's skin, pay attention to the change of the rash, rash subsided, the disease is cured. After 10 days of illness should pay attention to isolation, do not send children to nurseries, in order to avoid cross infection!!