Scarlet Fever: Symptoms and treatment
March 30th, 2010 by Stand Team
• Characteristics:
Differs from the rest for several reasons, the main is that it is the only eruptive of bacterial origin.
• How develops:
The causes a micro-organism that is called streptococcus betahemolític that is a normal inhabitant of the skin and the throat and often produces pharyngitis. In some cases produces a kind of toxin that is distributed throughout the body and causes high fever with spots in the skin. The characteristic of the eruption of scarlet fever is covering large surfaces. There are swollen glands but only in the neck and high fever.
• Treatment:
Since it was a bacterium, medical with antibiotics, but in reality the medication does not change many developments because when the eruption, the bacteria is already being eliminated by the agency itself.
At present has become a disease less frequent.
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