Chickenpox

Chickenpox often come suddenly without perspective feather. Can be cured in spite of, do not belittle this disease because it can occur a number of complications.

The former contains bubble liquid can leave a pocky that can harass the appearance. Cost of treatment for chickenpox is cheap, but the skin care cost is expensive, isn’t it?

In addition to use of prescription drugs, some people claim
also operates a traditional way, such as apply a grated young corn on a liquid containing bubbles appear in the body during the treatment. The goal is that scar because chickenpox does not cause a holes or pocked.

Chickenpox Complications

Chickenpox disease is acute, contagious infection of the virus due to chickenpox.
This disease is different from the smallpox that has now stated be eradicated from the earth. Chickenpox generally only infects children. However, in tropical countries such as Indonesia, the disease was also much infects teenagers and adults.

This disease is caused by a varicella virus zooster (virus V-Z). This virus can be found in vesicle liquid, blood and mucous fluid, and may cause zoster herpes disease.

"Someone can be infected by this virus easily, if the body resistance is weak," said
dr Irawan Mangun Atmaja SpA (K) from the Faculty of Medicine, Children's Section, Indonesia University / Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital Jakarta.

Chickenpox spread through saliva spray or the sick through the liquid out when the bubbles in the skin broken. Infected people can infect this virus 24 hours before the difference in the skin arise until seven days later. "Because very easy to spread, patients have to be isolated until recovered, " Irawan said.

Mentioned in some literature, the disease incubation period ranged 11 to 12 days. At the initial stage (prodromal phase), 24 hours before symptoms develop on the skin aberration, the patient experienced fever, weakness, lazy, have no appetite, and sometimes accompanied by redness on the skin, such as prickly heat.

In the next phase (erupts phase), arises a small red spot that change to bubbles (vesicle) and reddish-colored base. Vesicle fluid changed so muddy after a few days. In three
up to four days this vesicle spread to the entire body, from the body and to face, shoulder, and a member movement.

Around 250-500 bumps will then arose and spread throughout the section, except not on the face, scalp, mouth, in part, eye, including the most intimate body parts. In less than week, these bubbles will dry up and tingle. Within one to three weeks, the dried up scars on the skin will be peeled.

Symptoms experienced by adults are generally more severe than in the people who are still a child. Patients who are usually adults suffer more severe fever and lasts longer with illness head and a more serious injury. Adult patients are also usually loss of appetite and felt shooting pain in the body.

If infect children, most complications form as a varicel infection on the skin. Meanwhile, the adults, especially smokers, possible complications occur as pneumonia (pneumonia) 10-25 times higher than in children. Complications are rare but can occur as encephalitis, bone marrow inflammation, failure liver, hepatitis, and the difference in the brain and heart.

Organ inflammation

Pneumonia is usually due to secondary infection and can be perfectly cured. Inflammation after organ recovery can leave residual symptoms, such as convulsions, mental retardation, and natural disturbances behavior. In children with normal immune systems, complications-complications are rarely found. "But there are also children who the strain due to the water exposed to smallpox, "said Irawan.

Although the disease is very common, people should not belittle this disease and immediately go to the doctor for observation to prevent complications. However, parents of chickenpox patient should refuse the treatment if given symptomatic, such as aspirin and a type of salicylic, because only effective for short-term and feared can causes Reye syndrome complications.

To prevent infection, patient of chickenpox should be isolated from the children or healthy people who have never had chickenpox until the bump that contain fluids become dried up and flake off. During this drying process, chickenpox spread easily to others. Clothing, towels, plates, and equipment belonging to other people also belong to a member separated from other families apart and cleaned.

So that the bubble is not broken, the anti-itchy powder usually given in affected skin. This powder also reduces the itchiness and speed desiccation injury. Fingernails should be cut short to prevent infection of the bacteria on the skin that itch. However, when there is bacterial infection, your doctor will give you the antibiotics. Patient are encouraged bathing, changing clothes, and bed sheet every day.

The chickenpox healing will be achieved quickly when the common patients are kept so that still well. Therefore, the quality and quantity of food for chickenpox patients need to be guarded. If the resistance continues to increase, the process of healing will be running quickly. "As a precaution, the vaccine can reduce the risk of water exposed to smallpox. Even if wrong, is not to severe, " Irawan said.