What exactly is chickenpox?

What is chicken pox
Varicella is commonly found in 2 ~ 10-year-old children, is an incidence of acute and highly infectious diseases. Chickenpox occurs in winter and spring, often arising from kindergarten or primary school pop.

How chickenpox infection
Pathogens chickenpox is varicella - zoster virus, present in the blood of patients, herpes and oral secretions of serous. Mainly through respiratory droplets spread by contact with dust contaminated by viruses, clothing, appliances, etc. may also be transmitted. This means that if the health of children and children suffering from chicken pox often play together, talk, be in close contact and the incidence of infection. Therefore, once suffering from chicken pox should be isolated, should not be completely cured prior to kindergarten or school. Even if patients come into contact with chicken pox in children, should also be isolated for observation 2 to 3 weeks. Because the virus is not immediately after the incidence, there are generally 14 to 17 days after the incubation period, the elderly up to three weeks.
Highly contagious chicken pox, the patient is the only source of infection, children with access to about 90% of incidence. And from day to all prior to the onset of the dry skin rash are infectious scab.
Symptoms of chicken pox
More acute onset, may have fever, fatigue, systemic symptoms such as loss of appetite, adult children than clear that the general 1 to 2 days, eruptive. First of all fat in the trunk, and gradually extended to the first face and limbs, showing concentric distribution, that is multi-trunk, lower limbs, face, hand, foot less. The beginning of the small red papules, a few hours later turned into blisters the size of mung bean, Zhou around to flush. Early blister-like water was clear, thin-walled break, accompanied by itching. After 2 to 3 days and dry scab, after the scab off and more, without leaving any scars. In the incidence of 3 to 5 days, the rash occurred one after another in batches, it can be seen at the same time papules, blisters, crusted lesions, such as different periods, the course of about 2 to 3 weeks.
Mouth, eyes combination of film, pharynx, vulva, such as mucosal damage can occur even also often accompanied by pain and the formation of ulcers.
The rash is not the better, as long as the rash in line with the general laws, some are more or less normal. Scratch blisters if secondary bacterial infection, skin necrosis can occur, and even give rise to septicemia. In addition, there may also be a small number of patients with varicella pneumonia, encephalitis, myocarditis, and complications such as purpura fulminans.
Traditional Chinese Medicine that the disease is an evil exopathic Reduqing when, in the skin caused by heat Yu.