Treatment of measles

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Measles, commonly known as "Sha Fu", is an acute exanthematous respiratory infectious disease caused by measles virus. It is one of the most common respiratory diseases in children. It is highly infectious, and the only way of transmission is the patient itself. Therefore, after measles, we have to isolate the patient until recovery. Its clinical symptoms include fever, cough, runny nose, conjunctival congestion, oral plaque, and so on The main symptom is pneumonia. At present, there is no specific drug for measles. Therefore, prevention and nursing are the most important. Now let's learn more about it.

Treatment of measles

The first is to vaccinate measles vaccine. Measles vaccine is a kind of vaccine that countries vaccinate free of charge. When we are eight months old, we should vaccinate once, and then vaccinate the second time after 18-24 months. Some studies have shown that effective vaccination of measles can almost protect us for life.

Second: if there is no sign of fever, cough, runny nose, tears, photophobia, etc., and the temperature continues to rise, the basic can reach 39 ~ 40 degrees, at this time, we have to go to the hospital fever clinic for examination, if it is measles, we should immediately isolate and treat as soon as possible.

Third: if it is a simple measles patients, no other complications, then we can use traditional Chinese medicine to treat, such as Gegen Shengma decoction, coriander Decoction and yinqiao powder, to maintain the air circulation in the isolation area, strengthen nutrition, then it generally takes about half a month from the beginning of diagnosis to the end of illness.

matters needing attention

Measles has a short-term incubation period of 7-14 days. If the patient has mild temperature rise and does not fall, he should seek medical treatment as soon as possible. When the outbreak occurs, he may have been infected to his family.