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Scareltina is an entirely different illness

Scarlatina is a term that is interchangeable with Scarlet Fever. Often it indicates a less sever form of scarlet fever. But they are the same.

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If the patient is treated promptly with antibiotics, full recovery can be expected. Patients who have had scarlet fever develop immunity to the disease and cannot be infected again.

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Antibiotics

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Scarlet fever is not caused by a virus, but by a bacterium in the Streptococcus family. It is a contagious disease, and it can live in saliva.

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Very few

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3,668

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children

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No i think a scalet fever make a healthy and balanced person faint

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Scarlet fever is one step higher then a strep throat it can even kill you some of the problems you may have are

- chills

-neck swollen of a fever that goes up to 101, Scarlet fever produces poisons toxins in your body and that is when it turns into Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome and that puts toxic gas into your system and that is how you die of scarlet fever

Scarlet fever gives you all of the above, and also it can produce a generalized rash that involves even the palms and the soles. A serious complication of Scarlet fever is Post streptococcal glomerulonephritis, an acute kidney disease causing blood in the urine, increase blood pressure and generalized swelling, especially the face. This kidney problem appears 10 to 14 days after the skin infection.

Scarlet Fever is a communicable disease that is highly contagious. It is much more serious than strep throat. Persons with Scarlet Fever may experience high fever, chills, severe ear aches, and rash. Death may occur. Often while recovering the skin may peal.

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Scarlet fever is also known as scarlatina

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YES

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If a child truly has Scarlet Fever, the child needs to be kept at home during treatment, unless otherwise directed by a physician.

School exams can always wait and be re-scheduled.

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scarlet fever without a fever is not scarlet fever

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bacteria called erythrogenic exotoxin invade your body through breathing in air-borne droplets from an infected person's sneeze, direct contact with an infected person, or by touching something that an infected person has touched.

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no

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I believe so and i think it can be transmitted from animal to person as well

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The rash goes away in like 3 weeks

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Scarlet fever is essentially a strept throat with a distinct, rough-sand-paper like rash. Since it is a bacterial infection, an antibiotic is needed to improve symptoms - improvement that should occur over a 48 hour period. However, the rash may last up to 7 days.

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650,000

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scarlatina

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5,000-7,800 people in the US per year

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yes it is

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Scarlet Fever is named such because of it's most visible symptom, a distinctive red rash which begins on the neck and chest, then spreads to other areas on the body. Although other symptoms, such as fever, sore throat, and swollen tongues, also accompany the infection, the rash is the most noticeable.