April 6th, 2010 by Stand Team

• Characteristics:
You can occur at any age, but the group is the most affected children between 5 and 10 years, so that the field more supportive of transmission is the school. It is highly contagious, so if someone who had not had chickenpox is near a sick, it is very likely to be attacked by the varicella-zoster virus. Spread by contact with the secretions from the skin but, as well as affects and respiratory, small drops of saliva, which are expelled the Haber can carry the virus.

While this disease is not reproduced the virus may remain in the body for the rest of life, housed in the nodes nervous. It may be that at the time when the defenses are low occurs, which is a rash concentrated in any part of the body.

• How develops:
The incubation period is about two weeks. The contagion is, from a day before in which appear the blisters, until the same are covered with scabs, which is around 5 to 7 days after the eruption. The vesicles generally appear in the trunk and spread to the extremities, in a centrifugal movement. Do not appear all at the same time but first there is a peak of fever and then an outbreak of blisters, the day after another peak fever
And another outbreak of blisters and the next day equal. The cycle is characterized by a macula pink on the then appears the gallbladder. This after breaks is covered with the scab yellowish and when the scab falls is a scar that usually disappears over time. Read the rest of this entry »