Chicken Pox - Symptom, Causes, Home Remedies for Chicken Pox
What is Chicken Pox ?
Chickenpox is an acute contagious disease, common to children, particularly between the ages of one 'to ten years. Though it has a superficial resemblance to smallpox, it is entirely a different disease and less severe.
Causes and Symptoms of Chicken Pox
Caused by a virus, the disease starts with slight feverishness, and pain in the back and legs. There may be a feeling of chill, and with twenty-four hours of its onset, small red pappules appear on the back and chest, and, sometimes, on the forehead too. The pimples turn into vesicles (filled with a clear liquid), but within a day or two, they either suppurate or shrivel up with a brown crust appearing on them. The eruptions last several days.
Medicines & Prescriptions for Chicken Pox
Even without medication, chickenpox will pass off without any ill effects in about a week. In adults, however, though the disease strikes infrequently, it may cause extreme weakness and prostration.
Diet and Other Regimen - Home Remedies for Chicken Pox
The patient may be kept on a normal diet depending upon his appetite which is affected in some cases of fever. Hard-to digest-foods should be avoided.
Purgatives should be avoided
Other Fevers Types
Typoid Fever
Meningitis
Chicken Pox
Measles
Malaria
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