What are the symptoms of chickenpox

Update Date: 2024-07-06 Source: Network

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For a long time, the most common infectious disease in children is chickenpox. The discovery of the disease by parents is first detected from its symptoms. Therefore, let's introduce the problem of what the symptoms of chickenpox are.

What are the symptoms of chickenpox

Symptom 1: clinical skin and mucosa in groups with macular papules, blisters and scab, and the presence of skin rash at the same time for the characteristics. The disease is a self limiting disease, which can be immunized for life after the disease, and can also be infected and relapsed after many years.

Symptom 2: mostly seen in children aged 1-10 years old, with an incubation period of 2-3 weeks. The onset is more acute, may have fever, headache, systemic fatigue and other precursor symptoms. Within 24 hours after the onset of the disease, the rash turned into a round tension blister with the size of rice to pea, with obvious red halo around, and the central part of the blister was umbilical fossa. After 2-3 days, the blister dried up and formed scab. The lesions were centripetal, first in the anterior face, then in the trunk and limbs. The number may vary from trunk to face, head, limbs and palms. The mucous membrane is often invaded, such as oral cavity, pharynx, conjunctiva, vulva and anus.

Symptom 3: skin lesions often occur in batches, so papules, blisters and scabs often exist at the same time, the course of disease after 2 to 3 weeks. If the child's resistance is low, the skin lesions may spread throughout the body, forming disseminated varicella. The clinical manifestations of varicella include bullous varicella, hemorrhagic varicella, neonatal varicella and adult varicella. In addition, if chickenpox infection during pregnancy, can cause fetal malformation, premature birth or stillbirth.

matters needing attention

After the occurrence of chickenpox, in addition to understanding the symptoms of chickenpox, we should also take isolation measures for patients with chickenpox, and clean their skin lesions.