Hisyam B Chicken pox Chicken Pox is a red bumpy rash on parts of your body that can feel itchy can also cause you to have the flufever The disease is caused by the varicella zoster virus Contagious by spreading through the air ID: 148675
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Chicken Pox
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Chicken pox
Chicken Pox is a red bumpy rash on parts of your body that can feel
itchy, can also cause you to have the flu/fever. The disease is caused by the varicella zoster virus. Contagious by spreading through the air.Slide3
Signs and symptoms
Chickenpox infection usually lasts about 5 to 10 days. Loss of appetite
Headache
Once the chickenpox rash appears, it goes through three phases:
Raised pink or red
bumps,
which break out over several days
Fluid-filled
blisters,
forming from the raised bumps over about one day before breaking and leaking
Crusts and scabs, which cover the broken blisters and take several more days to heal Slide4
Prevent the pox
The best way to prevent chicken pox is to get dosesChildren
get the first dose of chickenpox vaccine at 12 through 15 months old and the second dose at age 4 through 6 years.
Kids who are 13
years of age and older who are not
immune to
chickenpox or have never had the disease should get two doses of chickenpox vaccine at least 28 days apart.Slide5
Test
Usually the symptoms of chicken pox are enough to determine the disease but if the signs are not straight forward. A lab uses specimens taken from the blister, fluid in the blister, or sometimes spinal fluid. They are sent to a
laboratory
where it takes 1 - 14 days to detect the virus in the preparation made from the
specimen.Slide6
Government policies
It is safe enough and effective enough to be recommended by the CDC as a standard vaccine for adults 60 and older. It is now one of components of preventive medicine, Except most of the problems for people is cost and coverage. The vaccine costs about $200 and most insurances do not cover it.
State
laws that require children entering childcare or public schools to have certain vaccinations. There is no federal law that requires thisSlide7
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