Symptoms and treatment of measles in children?
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Measles is an acute respiratory infectious disease, which is caused by measles virus and can occur all year round. In China, children under 5 years old are the most common measles patients. Tell you about me.
Symptoms and treatment of measles in children?
Prodromal phase: this phase generally lasts three or four days. The symptoms were fever, cough, sneezing, runny nose, sore throat, throat congestion and other catarrhal symptoms similar to common cold. Eyes will also appear conjunctival congestion, photophobia, tears and other performance. The most obvious feature is that there are 0.5-1 mm white dots on the buccal mucosa near the first molar on both sides of the oral cavity, and there is a red halo around the dots. This is coprink spot, which has certain clinical significance for the early diagnosis of measles.
Rash stage: as the name suggests, at this stage, rashes will appear one after another, usually on the fourth day of fever, lasting for three or five days. The rash first appeared behind the ears and hairline, then gradually spread to the face and neck, then spread from top to bottom to the chest, abdomen, back, limbs, and finally reached the palms and soles of the feet. In addition to the rash, in the peak period of rash, children will have a high fever, serious lung disease, mild hepatosplenomegaly.
Convalescence: measles is a self limiting disease, when the rash three or five days later, the body temperature will slowly drop, other symptoms of the body also began to reduce. According to the previous rash order, the rash subsided in turn, but will leave a light brown spot, at the same time there will be peeling performance. This phase lasts about one to two weeks.
matters needing attention
Measles virus can survive for a day in a closed room, but once exposed to the circulating air, it is easy to lose vitality. Therefore, children in the room should keep fresh air, good ventilation, but pay attention not to let children directly blow, so as not to catch cold.
