Windmill (or chickenpox) - Outdoor disease. It can be overcome in adulthood, and over the years it becomes harder to carry this disease. The wind inspi is sick just once, because after a person, a persistent immunity is produced in a person. Each mom in the case of infection of the child arises a lot of questions about how to treat chickenpox in children, but at first it is necessary to deal with the cause of the disease and how it applies.
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Ways of penetration of viruses of wind sieves and the symptoms of illness
The windshield is propagated by air-droplet, penetrates the body through the respiratory tract or through the mucous eye. Children in gardens and schools are often infected, where there is a long-term close contact. To treat the windmill in children you need at home, observing a strict quarantine, because it is not a simple ARVI.
For the day, when skin rashes appeared, the child becomes contagious, and quarantine needs to continue five days from the very appearance of the last rash on the skin of the child. The incubation period of illness lasts from one to three weeks. The child then rises to 39 degrees and above the temperature, and together with it - the first skin rashes (papulas). Weight, headache, etc. join these symptoms.
First, the rashes have the form of pink specks, flat and rarely located. But after a while (literally after a few hours), the rashes increase, become convex, liquid accumulates, they accumulate, to squeeze it is categorically impossible. The rashes are located not only on the skin, but also in the eyes, in the mouth, in the area of \u200b\u200bthe groin. They are very judging and thus worried a child. They cannot be combed - it is possible to affect the infection and complicate the disease. After a few days, skin rashes stop, the course of the disease weakens.
How to treat chickenpox in children
Treat the windmill in children with antibiotics makes no sense, as it is a viral infection. Antibiotics are prescribed if bacterial infection fell into bubbles on the skin.
In the question, how to treat the windmill in children, there are no pharmacological funds as such. All the diseases of the disease lay on the shoulders of the parents, as the child is treated at home. Bed regime is assigned, active children's games are canceled. Parents must minimize anxiety and discomfort caused by itching and rash, namely:
- more often change baby underwear;
- every day to change linens, and if necessary - and twice a day;
- process skin bubbles with green, eliminate their wet;
- do not allow the development of allergic reactions to any products.
It is possible in the quality of the disinfection effect to prepare a baby bath for a few minutes, adding a weak solution of manganese into water. The feet must drink a lot, as the high temperature leads to the dehydration of the body. Appetite during the disease usually disappears, so the lack of vitamins and nutrients must be replenished.
Medications against temperature should be given in doses corresponding to the age and weight of the child. As a rule, these are preparations based on paracetamol, which simultaneously reduce the temperature, and are anti-inflammatory.
To get rid of the unpleasant itching, antihistamines are applied to the appointment of the doctor, and if there are rashes on the eye shell - antiviral specialized gel. You can process the wounds as both the "famous" green and weak mortar of manganese. Alcohol in this case is contraindicated.
A chickenpox is sick once in his life, a man remains lifelong immunity. But the virus itself also remains in the body, and it should be remembered that in elderly can cause another disease - listened.