The disease of chickenpox can also be regarded as the memory of a generation.
Perhaps many people in our mother group have been tricked.
Usually in film and television dramas, you can often see clips of children suffering from chicken pox, and the deepest impression of the fungus is Dong'er in "Huan Zhu GeGe".
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Acne all over the face, itching all over the body... It's so torturous to watch.
The incidence of chickenpox in recent years has really not been high, so most of the time, it is only in our memory.
But this year, especially recently, chickenpox has begun to linger in many areas again.
Recently, some kindergartens, primary and secondary schools in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, found cases of chickenpox, and then many regional centers for disease control and prevention have also issued reminders: be sure to be vigilant against chickenpox!
It should be known that chickenpox is a highly contagious disease, known as "meeting transmission", which is mainly transmitted through respiratory droplets and direct contact.
People are generally susceptible to chickenpox and can occur at any age, especially in infants, preschool and school-age children.
Therefore, it is extremely important to do a good job in prevention!
The most important thing to deal with chickenpox is
vaccine! vaccine! vaccine!
Vaccination against chickenpox is the best way to prevent chickenpox, and children over 1 year old can get better preventive results after vaccination.
Currently, the varicella vaccine is a voluntary self-administered vaccine in most parts of the continent.
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In general, two doses are given, between 1 year old and 4 to 6 years (or 4 to 8 weeks apart).
13 years of age and older, 2 injections at intervals of 4 to 8 weeks.
However, vaccination is not recommended for the following categories of people:
● Those who are known to be allergic to any of the ingredients contained in the vaccine, including excipients and antibiotics;
● Patients with acute illness, severe chronic disease, acute onset of chronic disease and fever;
● Immunodeficiency, immunocompromised or receiving immunosuppressive therapy;
● Patients with encephalopathy, uncontrolled epilepsy, and other progressive neurological disorders.
Many mothers leave messages saying, why do children get vaccinated or get chickenpox, so what is the significance of this vaccination? Can you not vaccinate, is this not a waste of money?
The chickenpox vaccine does not guarantee 100% non-morbidity, that's for sure.
However, this does not mean that vaccination is meaningless, according to WHO recommendations, after two doses of chickenpox vaccine, the protective effect can reach more than 95%.
And people who have been vaccinated, even if they are re-infected with chickenpox, the symptoms are usually mild and the recovery is faster.
Therefore, it is still recommended to vaccinate children, kindergartens, schools, etc. are places with high incidence, and children's daily contact is very frequent.
Without vaccination, the child has no strength to protect against the virus!
Think about other people's children wearing armor, their own children are just ordinary clothes, who is weak and who is strong in front of the virus is not clear at a glance?
Another point is that if the child was first exposed to a child with chickenpox yesterday, it is too late to get vaccinated.
After exposure to chickenpox patients, vaccination within 3 days can prevent the onset of the disease, and vaccination within 5 days can reduce the severity of the disease.
Symptoms can range from mild to severe
Don't be careless!
It is estimated that everyone is most impressed by chickenpox: there are blisters everywhere on the body.
But in fact, chickenpox patients will first have fever, headache, sore throat, cough and other symptoms of upper respiratory tract infections in the early stage of the disease.
After about 1 to 2 days, a rash appears from the trunk, then to the head, face, and limbs.
The rash begins as a macule rash followed by small oval water droplet-like blisters surrounded by a red halo.
After 1 to 2 days, the herpes begins to dry up from the center, scabs, and redness disappears, and the scab skin will fall off and heal in about 1 week.
During this process, the rash appears in batches, so that during the peak of the disease, macules, papules, herpes, and scabs coexist.
1 to 2 days before the onset of the disease, until all herpes scabs, are contagious, so for children with chickenpox must be isolated until all the rash scabs.
And the most torturous thing about chickenpox is that herpes can be very itchy!!!
Children can't help but scratch with their fingers, if the skin and blisters scratch, it is easy to cause skin infection.
So, at this stage, home care is very important!
It is best to cut your child's nails short and round or bring gloves to avoid scratches on the skin.
Avoid being in a hot and stuffy environment for a long time and keep your skin clean.
For children's skin itching, parents can use appropriate medication to relieve itching and pain under the guidance of a doctor.
In the diet, pay attention to giving children digestible foods and pay attention to hydration.
Children are sick, parents should do a good job of protection, sick baby towels, bedding, toys, tableware can be boiled or sunburned and other methods of disinfection.
Chickenpox is a self-limiting disease, usually about 10 days will heal itself, so parents do not need to be too anxious, under the guidance of a doctor to deal with the symptoms.
However, if the baby has the following symptoms, be sure to go to the hospital in time for an interview.
Persistent high fever, poor mental state, irritability, drowsiness, etc.;
Herpes is very dense, and even bullous, hemorrhagic herpes and so on appear.
Chickenpox, the most typical symptom is that the body is full of dense rashes.
And the rash is very itchy, and in the process, the child is very, very guilty.
Winter and spring are the high incidence of chickenpox season, coupled with kindergartens, schools and other places are too dense, children are easily infected!
Therefore, the bacteria still adhere to this point of view: if there are conditions, we must vaccinate our children!