How to protect yourself from chickenpox

How to protect yourself from chickenpox
 Chickenpox is varicella-zoster virus, belonging to the large family of herpes viruses. The disease is transmitted by airborne droplets and through common household items. Sick, you can not only in childhood, but at any age. Protect yourself and your loved ones from chickenpox can be only one way - to put the vaccination.
 Varicella sick once in a lifetime, and then produced a strong immunity. If you, your children, or people close to you suffered the disease, no prevention methods you no longer need.

Patients who have never had chickenpox, preventive inoculations. Vaccinations begin to conduct, as soon as the child was 12 months. Following inoculation put in 4 months. Then make a break for 4-6 years. Dates between vaccination depends on the type of vaccine used. Next graft put in 12 years.

Any patient should know that even vaccination does not guarantee against infection with chickenpox. But after preventive vaccinations disease will be mild form and goes into malignant.

Malignant flow gives chickenpox threatening complications, because the virus has the ability to mutate, resulting in primary chicken pox pneumonia, encephalitis or bacterial complications, severe pustular inflammation in the skin, eyes and mucous membranes.

The disease is particularly dangerous during pregnancy. Fetus may get congenital malformations, freeze, leading to miscarriage. To protect herself and her unborn child from chickenpox, planning a pregnancy, put preventive vaccination. During pregnancy, avoid contact with sick people.

At the first sign of chickenpox, immediately consult a doctor to make a call on the phone. Do not expose healthy citizens danger exclude all contacts.

The disease begins to show skin rash in the form of red spots, gradually turning into bubbles, body temperature rises to 37, 5-38, 0 degrees. There are signs of general intoxication, decreased appetite, lost sleep, worried about itching.

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