- We have chicken pox, hurray! - Oh, congratulations! Wait for us to visit! Chickenpox is one of those diseases that parents preschool rejoice at. How much, of course, you can enjoy the disease. And they don’t bother too much: except for decorating a child “under a crocodile” and knocking him down the temperature. But is it so simple and harmless? And is everyone saying that about her, right? The most popular judgments of parents for us were commented by a pediatrician, teacher of the department of propedeutics of children's diseases with the course of child care Nikolay Komov.1. Chickenpox is a “seasonal” disease, with a peak in May
Seasonality is inherent in other diseases, such asflu. There you can clearly say: yes, the peak of diseases occurs in the winter months. Chickenpox sick throughout the year, there is no obvious seasonality. This disease has nothing to do with the weather. If there is a source, then it constantly circulates, moving from one children's institution to another.
Photo: GettyImages2. Chickenpox passes without complications.Definitely not true. Indeed, most often the disease is mild or moderate. Especially when compared with the same measles. But still there is a risk of complications. For example, chickenpox encephalitis, quite a serious disease. But we cannot predict and prescribe a therapy that would prevent these complications.3. No need to treat, we will wait, and everything will passYou should always assess the severitydiseases. Most often, symptomatic treatment is prescribed: treatment of the bubbles so that bacteria do not get there, drinking plenty of fluids to avoid intoxication of the body, knocking down high temperatures. But such treatment is usually viewed by parents as a lack of treatment. 4. Chickenpox is a viral disease, so you need to drink antiviral drugsI'm sure: there is no drug, the effectiveness of which in chickenpox is proven. The group of stimulants of immunity, interferon is the position of our school of Soviet pediatrics. Opinion of the international scientific community: no drugs are needed.5. Rash process only brilliant greenShe is really good. But just like a marker. All other solutions, ointments are quickly washed away. Let me remind you that one of the criteria for recovery is the absence of a rash on the fifth day of illness. But if the bubbles somehow do not "mark", it is difficult to understand which of them are long and which are fresh. And so, in principle, you can use any other solution with antiseptic properties.
Photo: GettyImages6. It is impossible to bathe a childActually you can. If the baby walks a week dirty, it will be worse. So take a shower if there is no strong fever. The main thing - do not use loofah, do not rub with a towel. The sooner chickenpox the betterIn fact, it is very early to get sick - up to a year -too bad. The disease is most easily tolerated by children of preschool age. If the child has not had chickenpox in kindergarten, then it will be more difficult for him to transfer it. Therefore, in this case, before school, I recommend getting vaccinated against chickenpox. It is not yet included in the National Calendar (but it is included in some regional ones), but it has become very popular with parents. 8. A doctor is not needed, chickenpox is visible to the "naked eye"The doctor must be called. This is not just a quarantine question. A rash is a rather non-specific symptom, it accompanies many diseases. Chickenpox rash can be confused with enterovirus, so false diagnoses are often made in July-August. It looks like mononucleosis. Clearly the diagnosis can only specialist.9. Chickenpox can perebolet several timesIf someone says they've had chickenpox twice,or even three times, then either the doctors were mistaken, or he himself diagnosed himself. Chickenpox is sick once. But the virus remains in the body. And when immunity is weakened, it comes out in the form of shingles. That is, the pathogen is the same, but the diseases are different. 10. If one child in the team is ill, then everyone will get sick.Chickenpox has a really high index.contagiousness: about 80−90 percent. Compare, for example, with the usual ORVI: it has only 20−30 percent. So, as a rule, if the quarantine is introduced in the same kindergarten group, it will soon be distributed to the entire garden. The highest level is measles: 99 percent. If a child is ill at neighbors in the stairwell, then at the slightest airborne contact, even through ventilation, in another apartment they can also get sick. It is impossible not to notice chickenpoxThere is always asymptomatic or any infection.hidden current. Maybe she even went without a rash, maybe there was one bubble somewhere in the hair that you didn't notice. It is very easy to check whether the child was sick or not, for example, if you want to be vaccinated. You need to donate blood for antibodies to chickenpox. Read on:
