Chickenpox

It would be better to avoid the use of cleansers with acids while you have chickenpox. Use a gentle cleanser and pat dry instead.

Chickenpox can't be prevented with homeopathy.

Any person suffering from a virus such as chicken pox should be isolated.

If you are caring for a person with chicken pox you will not pass on the virus to another person who has already suffered a form of the disease; they will be immune.

When visiting or caring for a person with any illness, especially an infectious disease, good hygiene is essential. The most important aspect of good hygiene is hand-washing; you should wash your hands thoroughly, in hot water if possible, and dry them well before and after contact with the ill person.

This is hugely important because if you are caring for or visiting an ill person, you could not only carry their infection to others, but could easily transmit an infection to them, picked up from hand contact or by contact with objects such as telephones, door handles, light switches, elevator buttons, and so on.

A person who is already ill is at greater risk of contracting an infection. Very many infections are transmitted by contact with someone either suffering from the infection or someone who has had contact with an infected person and failed to observe proper hygiene procedures.

If you touched someone with chickenpox the day before, you are not likely to carry chickenpox to another child unless you yourself are infected. If you don't have immunity and got infected as a result of your contact, you could infect others.

Technically, there is no cure for chickenpox. Once you get the virus, it stays in your body for life. However, the acute illness of chickenpox usually goes away within a few weeks without treatment. For those with serious illness or at high risk for complications, antiviral medication may be used to decrease the severity. Otherwise, usually it's treated symptomatically with medicine or home remedies to decrease itching, fever, or aches.

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All children with chickenpox should avoid aspirin. If a child can safely take acetaminophen, s/he can do so when s/he has chickenpox.

Since only about 5% will have recurring outbreaks, it may not be worth getting the vaccine (unless you are one of the 5%).

This is just possible theoretically. But it should be very rare in practice to have such patient.

Current exposure to chickenpox does not increase the risk of shingles. A past history of chickenpox is the necessary condition for getting shingles. It's not something you catch from someone; it's reactivation of previous chickenpox infection.

Chickenpox is caused by varicella zoster virus, a member of the herpes family. And chickenpox can affect the mucous membranes near the eye. However, chickenpox does not cause the kind of vision-threatening infection usually associated with herpes simplex or herpes zoster infection of the eye.

Today, the only small pox cultures that exist are those in very secure labs in Russia and the United States. It is impossible for a baby to get the small pox in this day and age.

However, if the Small Pox virus did happen to get on a baby, the baby can get it.

There are no dietary restrictions when you have chickenpox. You can eat what you like.

Chickenpox is not usually fatal, but is more likely to kill teenagers and adults than it is to kill infants and children (see related link). Deaths and hospitalizations from chickenpox have dropped 90% in the US since introduction of chickenpox vaccine in 1995.

Calamine lotion doesn't actually treat the chickenpox virus. It does, however, help relieve the itching that is associated with the spots. It contains an anti-itching agent to relieve itching.

Yes, the name chickenpox was actually called varicella but they changed it after they found out what it originally came to be and how it works.

Generally, animals do not get chickenpox. It affects humans and a few other primates, such as gorillas. It does not affect cats, dogs, and other typical pets.

No, but you can get chicken pox if you haven't had it before. Most at risk are young children and pregnant women. Other than that, most people have had chicken pox. Shingles is only contagious while the blisters are forming.

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Scratching chicken pox sores can make the sores spread. Fingernails can also scratch the skin, creating tears in the skin which could allow bacteria to enter (in which case you'd have chicken pox plus an infected skin wound).

When people speak of a "carrier" of an infectious disease, they normally are referring to someone who is carrying the germ, can infect others, but has no symptoms. The period between getting the virus and getting symptoms is called the "incubation period" of an infection. The incubation period of chickenpox is 10-21 days, but is typically about two weeks.

However, chickenpox is a virus in the herpes family that goes into remission after the patient recovers from chickenpox. The virus stays in your body. It is the same virus that causes shingles in some in later years. However, in this period of remission, the patient is not contagious and isn't, technically, a "carrier."

Immediate chickenpox immunization clinics, strict handwashing, cough hygiene, and restricting return of sick school community members until all lesions are scabbed can stop the spread of chickenpox within a school.

People who have chickenpox normally develop immunity that lasts throughout their life, and they are unlikely to get chickenpox a second time. It is possible for a person who had chickenpox earlier to get shingles, a related disease that affects between one fifth and one third of those who had chickenpox earlier.

Yes, the number of chickenpox cases in the US declined after the introduction of chickenpox vaccine in 1995.