Chickenpox in children: reasons and signs

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  • Pathogenesis
    Windmills
  • Windmill: Symptoms
  • Complications

  • Chickenpox in children: reasons and signs
    Windmate
    OSAP refers to anthroponous infections. Chickenpox virus or simpler, windmills, capable
    live and multiply only in the human body, hitting the epithelium
    Skin cover, mucous, causing the appearance of a characteristic rash and symptoms
    Inxication. In the external environment, he quickly dies, but therefore existence
    infections are supported by its special contagious and high people susceptibility.

    Sick with windmill mostly children after transferred
    Diseases are formed persistent life immunity. It is believed that
    15 years 70-90% of people do not be acquainted with signs of windmills. Adults face S
    manifestations of infection extremely rarely, so the windmill refer to children
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    children of the first months of life — Also rarity. Kids get immune
    Factors of protection against this infection during intrauterine development and with milk
    Mother with breastfeeding.

    Pathogenesis
    Windmills

    The source of a chickenpox virus is a sick person,
    considered infectious in the last 10 days of the incubation period of infection and
    First week after the appearance of rashes on the skin.

    Path of transmission pathogen — Air-drip. Virus
    It is contained in the patient's saliva, spreads when coughing, sneezing, conversation and threads
    air can be transferred over long distances, for example, in the next
    room or another floor building. Get a windmill through objects and things
    almost impossible.

    Hitting the child's body through the respiratory tract, the virus
    Windmills is fixed on the epithelium of the mucous membrane accumulates and from here is entered in
    Regional lymphatic nodes. This period of illness is called incubation, proceeds
    hidden and lasts 1-3 weeks. As soon as the causative agent enters the blood,
    The child appears the first external signs of the windmill.

    The virus is distributed throughout the body of the kid, «favorite»
    Cells of skin and mucous membranes are becoming a place of habitat. In them
    The causative agent breeds him «activity» leads to vakolization, dystrophy
    And the death of the epithelium. In the formed single-chamber cavities accumulate
    Serous fluid — Typical bubbles are formed, which are revealed,
    empty and replaced with crusts. On mucous shell bubbles
    turn into small erosion. After healing on the site of bubbles and erosions
    Sometimes temporary pigmentation remains.

    Windmill: Symptoms


    Odrom

    Usually a chickenpox in a child begins with easy malaise,
    plasticity, increased excitability, decline in appetite. Rarely already in the very
    The beginning of the disease marked hyperthermia, headache, nausea and vomiting. IN
    Most cases, the clinical picture of windmills and symptoms typical for
    Her, unfold with the appearance of rashes on the body of the kid. From now on
    The body temperature rises, and the phenomena of general intoxication occur.


    Rash

    The rash with windmill passes in its development several
    Stadium. First, a reddish spot appears on the skin, after a few hours
    It turns into a tubercle, then into the bubble. After opening the bubble on his
    Spot is formed crust.

    Rash with windmill can capture the whole body of the baby, it is not
    Only on the palms and the plantar surface of the stop. Since the appearance
    rash elements and their transformation occurs simultaneously on the skin of the child
    There are also stains, and tubercles, and bubbles, and crusts. Each new «Plug»
    elements are accompanied by an increase in temperature, this period of the disease
    It continues on average from 3 to 8 days. As soon as the child stops sculp,
    Symptoms of intoxication go to the decline: the body temperature is normalized, improves
    Overall health, appetite appears.

    Complications

    Weak children in the absence of proper chickenproof care
    Can be complicated by pyodermia. Windmill bubbles catch up and turn
    in gunnock. Child condition worsens, body temperature is growing. After
    Opening of guns and healing wound on the body of the kid remain scars,
    Reminders of Ospina.

    And yet more often chickenpox in children is favorable,
    Often, even in an erased form, without increasing the temperature and with scarce
    rash. Bullous, hemorrhagic, gangrenous form of the disease in children
    Practical are not found. Such complications as stomatitis, conjunctivitis,
    Parotitis, keratitis, encephalitis and meningoencephalitis are only in severe
    The flow of infection in adult patients.

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