Everybody knows what chicken pox is. It is when you get bumps all over your body. The cause of chicken pox is the varicella virus.
Males and females are both able to get the virus, but children ages five to six are the most likely to be infected. Chicken pox is caused by the virus varicella. It is very contagious and unless you got it at birth, one attack carries lifelong immunity. The chain infection is only present if a group of people come in contact with an infected person or anything the infected person has come in contact with. It is usually received in the cooler months of the year and goes away by itself in two to three weeks. The symptoms of chicken pox are a rash that appears after about three days.
It starts at the trunk (the legs), spreads to the face, and then to the extremities. The infected person will have a temperature of one hundred and two degrees Fahrenheit, which will last throughout the breakout. The rash is quite itchy and becomes dry, crusted, and falls off in a week. More bumps will appear every three days. Scars will be present if they become infected, badly scratched, or removed.
A physician is usually not needed to make a diagnosis, but after the symptoms appear, it is still best to make sure it is chickenpox and not something much worse. The physician can easily make a diagnosis by checking the basic symptoms. Chickenpox is controlled by keeping the infected person and anything the infected person has come in contact with away from people who have never been infected. There is not really a treatment, just medicine to prevent itching from the rash.
The disease blows over by itself. It cannot really be prevented because almost everybody gets it. The only precaution a person can take is to stay out of contact with currently infected people and anything they have touched. The outcome is usually that the rash and fever go away, and the person returns to normal. Unless the person got the disease as a newborn, they will never get it again.
If they scratch the scabs or let them get infected, there will be scars. Besides that, the person will be fine.
