Early symptoms of chickenpox

Chickenpox is a contagious disease that commonly occurs in children and spreads very quickly. Many parents find that their children have inexplicable red spots or blisters on their bodies, and the children scratch from time to time. When the parents take their children to the hospital for examination, they find out that their children have chickenpox. At this time, many parents will ask, what are the early symptoms of chickenpox in children? How do you know if your child is going to get chickenpox? Let's find out below.

I guess everyone has experienced the impression of having chickenpox when they were a child. Not only did our parents not let us go out, they also made us wear a lot of clothes and bought us a lot of sour hawthorns to eat. These are the scenes of treating chickenpox in our childhood memories. In fact, chickenpox is not what we imagined. Let’s take a closer look at it below.

Varicella is a type of herpes zoster virus. Clinically, varicella is generally divided into an incubation period, early symptoms, and an rash period. The incubation period is about 12 to 21 days, with an average of 14 days. Early symptoms: Infants and young children often have no early symptoms. Older children or adults may have

Fever, headache, general malaise, poor appetite and upper respiratory tract symptoms, with rash appearing 1 to 2 days later. A prodromal rash may occasionally occur; rash period: rash appears at the same time as fever or 1 to 2 days later. The eruption phase has the following characteristics:

According to the clinical characteristics of the patient, varicella can be divided into the following types:

1. Common type: accounts for the vast majority of chickenpox patients, and the systemic symptoms are relatively mild. The disease lasts about 1 week and then heals on its own. Adults and infants often have more severe rashes and the disease may last for several weeks.

2. Progressive disseminated varicella: People who suffer from malignant tumors such as leukemia and lymphoma, or who have been using various immunosuppressants and cortical hormones for a long time and have reduced resistance due to various reasons, are prone to develop progressive disseminated varicella after infection.

The symptoms are prolonged duration of viremia, high fever and systemic poisoning symptoms, multiple and dense rashes all over the body, and new rashes constantly appearing. The herpes is large and may fuse together to form bullae, or appear as hemorrhagic herpes that are not easy to scab over, and even large areas of necrosis may occur in the local skin and subcutaneous tissue of the rash. Petechiae and ecchymoses can sometimes be seen on normal skin.

3. Primary varicella pneumonia: Most patients are adults. Primary varicella pneumonia occurs from the first to the sixth day of the disease, but the severity of the disease varies. Mild cases have no obvious symptoms; severe cases may have high fever, cough, chest pain, hemoptysis, dyspnea and cyanosis. Chest signs were unremarkable. The pathological process of varicella pneumonia is generally synchronized with the rash and often improves as the rash subsides.

4. Varicella encephalitis: It is rare. Clinical manifestations of encephalitis occur 3 to 8 days after the onset of the rash. In rare cases, it occurs 2 weeks before to 3 weeks after the onset of the rash. They are generally children aged 5 to 7 years old, with more boys than girls. Clinical features and CSF examination characteristics are similar to those of other viral encephalitis. The onset varies in severity. In the early stage, there may be no fever or signs of meningeal irritation. Headache, vomiting and paresthesia are common, or accompanied by cerebellar symptoms such as ataxia, nystagmus, dizziness and language disorders. In severe cases, there may be convulsions, paralysis, drowsiness or coma. The disease may cause sequelae such as mental abnormalities, mental retardation and epileptic seizures.

What are the early symptoms of chickenpox? Friends, do you understand after reading the above introduction? Chickenpox does not only occur in children, it can also occur in adults. After getting chickenpox, the body will have fever, headache, and general discomfort. Therefore, once chickenpox occurs, it must not be ignored and you must go to the hospital in time to take appropriate measures for treatment.

It is better to check and find out the real cause of the disease and provide targeted treatment. As long as you actively cooperate with the hospital for treatment, it can be cured.