Chickenpox is a common acute infectious disease caused by varicella-zoster virus.
Chickenpox can occur all year round, especially in winter and spring. Chickenpox is highly contagious, and patients are the only source of infection, mainly through saliva droplets, but also through contact with clothes, toys, utensils and so on contaminated by chickenpox virus.
Most of the patients are infants, and collective children are also susceptible groups. Nurseries, kindergartens and primary schools are prone to local epidemics.
Chickenpox is a common skin disease in infants.
1). Once a child is diagnosed with chickenpox, he should be isolated at home immediately until all chickenpox scabs.
2). Children who go to school or kindergarten can generally be isolated at home. If there are other children in the family who have never had chickenpox, they should choose another place to live, or don't share a room with the patient.
3). Isolation should continue until all herpes is dry and crusted.
Open the window regularly.
1). Air circulation can also kill viruses in the air. But pay attention to prevent children from catching cold when the room is ventilated.
2) Get as much sunshine as possible in the room and open the glass window (glass can block the ultraviolet rays that kill the virus).
3. Disinfection and cleaning
1). Clothes, bedding, towels, dressings, toys and tableware that come into contact with chickenpox and herpes fluid should be washed, dried in the sun, scalded, boiled and burned respectively, and should not be used with healthy people.
2). At the same time, change clothes and quilts frequently to keep your skin clean.
4. Avoid baby scratching acne by hand.
1). Pay special attention not to scratch the acne on your face to avoid getting herpes. If the depth of the lesion is damaged, it may leave a scar. To prevent this, children should cut their nails short and keep their hands clean.
2) You can sew a pair of gloves with outward burrs, or wrap his hands with gauze.
3). You can apply 1% purple liquid when herpes is broken, and antibiotic ointment when suppurated.
Stop itching
For a recovering child, it is most comfortable for him to find a way to help him stop itching.
1). Clothes should not be too thick or too tight. Sweating too hot will make the rash itchy. Put 4 tablespoons of sodium bicarbonate soda powder in the bath water and help him take a bath every three to four hours.
2) Put some dried oats in old socks or pillowcases and soak them in the bathtub. Bathing the baby with this water after ten minutes can have a good antipruritic effect.
3). After cleaning the skin, apply it locally with Luganshi lotion containing 0.25% borneol in the place where chicken pox grows. Oral antiallergic drugs such as cisplatin also have antipruritic effects.
6. Pay attention to the change of illness
1). Individual chickenpox infants may be complicated with pneumonia and encephalitis. If you find persistent high fever, cough, vomiting, headache, irritability or lethargy after the eruption, you should be sent to the hospital in time.
2) Let sick children rest when they have a fever, eat a nutritious and digestible diet, and drink more boiled water and juice.
Chickenpox, parents worry, baby is thin. Therefore, I am committed to the prevention of chickenpox.
Prevention of chickenpox:
1) to help children develop good hygiene habits, wash their hands frequently and avoid cross-infection of infectious diseases.
2), the school classroom should always open the window for ventilation, and keep the indoor environment clean and tidy.
3), the school should do a good job of daily morning check-up and report to children with chickenpox in time. These children must receive isolation treatment at home until they recover (about 3 weeks from onset) before returning to school.
4) Vaccinate children with varicella vaccine.
People are only infected once in their lives, and generally don't get infected twice. In fact, almost everyone has been infected, but some are recessive infections, thus gaining immunity.