How to do chickenpox care, four guidelines for chickenpox care

In this frequent chickenpox disease, parents need to pay attention, and they must do a good job of protection and care, so how to prevent chickenpox? How to care for chickenpox?

First of all, once chickenpox occurs, in addition to seeking medical attention in time, you should do a good job of isolation

Do not allow sick children to visit their homes or go to public places to avoid spreading the disease to each other.

It should be isolated until the child has no fresh rash and the rash is all crusted. Secondly, the room where the child lives should be well ventilated and the humidity should be appropriate.

Take good care of your child's diet

In the course of the disease, the gastrointestinal and digestive functions of children are weakened to varying degrees, so it is advisable to eat nutritious and easily digestible foods: such as milk, soybean milk, minced pork porridge, minced meat noodles, etc.

Dress appropriately and not too thickly to avoid sweating

If it is too thin, it is easy to catch a cold and cause a cold. Fifth, pay attention to skin cleanliness and hygiene. Underwear should be changed frequently, fingernails should be cut short, and gloves should be worn to prevent scratching and reduce secondary infection. When the skin is itchy, calamine lotion can be applied topically.

Chickenpox is more common in winter and spring, and it is the primary infection caused by the herpes zoster virus. The virus is present in the patient's blood, in the serous fluid of herpes and in oral secretions. If you have had chickenpox, you won't get it again because you already have antibodies in your body. What are the causes of chickenpox in my baby?

Chickenpox is caused by varicella-zoster virus, characterized by generalized, batched rashes, maculopapular rash-herpes-pustules-scabbing for the evolution process, after chickenpox heals, the virus continues to latent in the nerve cells of the posterior root of spinal nerves and the sensory ganglia of cranial nerves, once the virus is activated, it can cause herpes zoster.

Chickenpox mostly occurs in late winter and early spring, it is good to occur on the head and face, trunk, mucous membranes (oral cavity), there is no itching or slight itching, the rash is small papules, blisters (thin walls are easy to break), scabs, no wheals, in addition to the rash, fever and cough and other systemic symptoms can also appear, once chickenpox can be immunized for life, it is extremely infectious.

The cause of chickenpox in children is generally due to the child's low immunity and susceptibility to the virus, and most babies after 8 months of age are susceptible to this disease. Chickenpox is more prevalent and contagious in spring, and more susceptible in schools and nurseries. Some friends will also say that children will still have chickenpox after being injected with chickenpox vaccine, the reason is that the antibodies produced after the chickenpox vaccine injection are not lifelong, so it is possible that the antibodies disappear and become infected with the chickenpox virus and cause the disease.