How did chickenpox occur?

Varicella is common in children 2~10sui, is a very strong onset acute and communicable infectious diseases. Varicella well in winter and spring quarters, often causing epidemic in kindergarten or small schools.

Chickenpox is the pathogen of varicella-zoster virus, exists in the patient\'s blood, in the slurry of herpes and oral secretions. Mainly through droplets of respiratory tract infection, exposure to virus-contaminated dust, clothes, appliances may also be transmitted. In other words if the health of children and children often play together, talk, suffering from chickenpox infection and onset of close contact. So once had chickenpox should pay attention to isolated, completely cured before should not go to kindergarten or school. Even if the child is to have contact with patients with varicella, should also be isolating observation of 2-3 week. Because the virus infection is not immediately attack, generally by the incubation period of 14-17 days, up to 3 weeks for the elderly.

Chickenpox contagious is so strong that patient is the only source, and hold about 90% disease of children. And from the prior day to all rash dried crust are infectious.

More urgent, may have systemic symptoms such as fever, malaise, anorexia, obvious in children than adults, General exanthematous within 1-2 days. First of all in the trunk, and gradually extend to the head and face and limbs, a concentric distribution, the trunk, face less limbs, palms, sole less. Beginning as a small red papule, after a few hours into a blister of mung bean size, around to dusky. Blister was clear at the beginning of water droplets, wall thin and easily broken, accompanied by itching. 2-3 days and dry crust, scab off and more in the future, without leaving scars. In the 3-5 days of onset, rash occurs gradually in batches, while visible and papular, vesicular, crusted lesions in different periods, course about 2-3 week.

Combining film, pharyngeal mouth, eyes, genital mutilation and other mucosal damage may also occur, often accompanied by pain form ulcers.

Rash is not out, the more the better, as long as they meet the general law of rash, more or less is normal. If blisters tear secondary bacterial infection, gangrene of the skin may occur, even causing sepsis. In addition, a few also can occur in patients with an outbreak of varicella pneumonia, encephalitis, myocarditis and Purpura and other complications.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the disease is exogenous pathogenic factors of heat-toxin, due to the stagnation of damp-heat from the skin.