Adults have symptoms of scarlet fever

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I think scarlet fever is not a strange word for us, because we will hear people talk about it intentionally or unintentionally. Experts say that scarlet fever has been a high incidence in the past few years, and countless children have suffered from the disease. So, how much do you know about the symptoms of the disease? Let's talk about it now.

Adults have symptoms of scarlet fever

Most of them have sudden chills and fever. In severe cases, their body temperature can rise to 39-40 ℃, accompanied by headache, sore throat, loss of appetite, general discomfort, nausea and vomiting. Infants may have delirium and convulsions. Pharynx is red and swollen, and punctate or flaky secretions can be seen on tonsil. The soft palate is congested and edematous, and there may be red macular or bleeding spots large in grains of rice, that is, intramucosal rash, which usually appears before skin rash.

Skin rash is one of the most important symptoms of scarlet fever. Most of them appeared from the first day to the second day. Occasionally, the rash appeared later than the fifth day. It starts from behind the ear, at the bottom of neck and upper chest, spreads to the chest, back and upper limbs within one day, and finally to the lower limbs. A few of them need several days to spread to the whole body. The typical skin rash is a needle cap sized, dense and uniform spot like congestive red rash scattered on the basis of whole body skin congestion and redness. The hand pressure subsides completely and reappears after decompression. Occasionally "chicken skin" papules, severe poisoning can have bleeding rash, patients often feel itching.

Desquamation began within one week after the eruption, and the sequence of desquamation sites was consistent with that of eruption. The trunk is mostly furfural peeling, the palms and soles are thick with large membranous peeling, and the nail end chapped peeling is a typical manifestation. Desquamation lasts for 2-4 weeks, and temporary alopecia may occur in severe cases.

matters needing attention

For the treatment of scarlet fever, in addition to active and timely medication, the correctness of nursing must also be followed, such as maintaining good indoor air quality, changing and washing more clothes of patients, etc. In addition, the treatment of scarlet fever is more important, that is, we must be optimistic.