Chickenpox- HELP!!!!!!?
Question:
Does anyone know what the symptoms are when you are coming down with them?? At the moment i have been feeling slightly ill- and have really swollen glands. Thanks : )
Answers:
Chicken pox generally begins with an elevation of temperature, and a general feeling of blahh, which degenerates into a fatigue with muscle/joint aches and a fever. Shortly after you will notice a rash begin on the stomach and chest, becoming little spots of red that turn into blisters. The rash gradually spreads out to the back and down the legs, arms and up to the face and scalp. Usually within a day, you will have the first crop of chicken pox blisters you can recognize. If your brother began breaking out a week ago, you are well in the time frame for your first crop to break. You have already been exposed, and there is nothing you can do to prevent it if you have caught it. There are usually three crops of pox, appearing over 3-4 days time, and the second crop is generally the worst. At this point, the only thing you can do is take acetominaphen (Tylenol, or paracetimol), drink loads and wait. If it's going to happen, it's going to happen. At the sign of the first pox, you might as well cut your fingernails and prepare to itch.
look for the itchy red dots! but dont scratch they scar easily!
sounds like your getting it. it's worse for women though..
as long as its not the second time, shingles are far worse..
(chicken pox v2)
i had chicken pox hhmm almost 20 years ago, sorry for not remembering the symptoms
i remember u get like spots on ya skin and skin is itchy and its a bit like a cold, the symptoms
Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease that spreads from person to person by direct contact or through the air from an infected person's coughing or sneezing. Touching the fluid from a chickenpox blister can also spread the disease. A person with chickenpox is contagious from 1-2 days before the rash appears until all blisters have formed scabs. This may take 5-10 days. It takes from 10-21 days after contact with an infected person for someone to develop chickenpox.
The chickenpox lesions (blisters) start as a 2–4 mm red papule which develops an irregular outline (rose petal). A thin-walled, clear vesicle (dew drop) develops on top of the area of redness. This "dew drop on a rose petal" lesion is very characteristic for chickenpox. After about 8–12 hours the fluid in the vesicle gets cloudy and the vesicle breaks leaving a crust. The fluid is highly contagious, but once the lesion crusts over, it is not considered contagious. The crust usually falls off after 7 days sometimes leaving a crater-like scar. Although one lesion goes through this complete cycle in about 7 days, another hallmark of chickenpox is the fact that new lesions crop up every day for several days. Therefore, it may take about a week until new lesions stop appearing and existing lesions crust over. Children are not to be sent back to school until all lesions have crusted over.
Second infections with chickenpox occur in immunocompetent individuals, but are uncommon. Such second infections are rarely severe. A soundly-based conjecture being carefully assessed in countries with low prevalence of chickenpox due to immunisation, low birth rates, and increased separation is that immunity has been reinforced by subclinical challenges and this is now less common. This is more dangerous with shingles. There have been reported cases of repeat infections. Chickenpox is highly contagious and is spread through the air when infected people cough or sneeze, or through physical contact with fluid from lesions on the skin. Zoster, also known as shingles, is a reactivation of chickenpox and may also be a source of the virus for susceptible children and adults. It is not necessary to have physical contact with the infected person for the disease to spread. Those infected can spread chickenpox before they know they have the disease - even before any rash develops. In fact, people with chickenpox can infect others from about 2 days before the rash develops until all the sores have crusted over, usually 4-5 days after the rash starts.
i know how you feel,i had them late in life age 21.doctors told my mother i was very lucky to be alive and it all started with small spot on top of my head.now i am worried as i have been told measles are about and i have never ever had measles so god help me.
That sounds about right. I got it when I was 22. I had one weird spot, then I felt a bit weak, then my glands went up on my neck, then all the other spots came. Take some time out of your life to lie in bed, read books and drink lots of water, and don't scratch the spots!
Some people get a cough or cold before spots appear. You may get them but you may not get then. It usually takes two weeks before spots appear so you will find out in a weeks time.
see a doctor and get the vaccine!!
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