Early symptoms of chickenpox

Chickenpox is a relatively common disease. Many people will suffer from this disease without knowing it. It can only be detected when the disease becomes more serious. At this time, the best time to treat the disease has been missed, and it will be very difficult to treat it. Therefore, patients should understand the symptoms of this disease in a timely manner, so that they can discover their condition early and it will be easier to treat. Especially for children, timely detection and treatment is very important, otherwise it will have a great impact on the baby's health.

Since many people are not very familiar with the early symptoms of chickenpox, they always wait until the disease becomes serious before seeking treatment. This is very bad. The following will introduce the early symptoms of the disease in detail so that everyone can have a systematic understanding.

1. Incubation period: The incubation period is about 12 to 21 days, with an average of 14 days;

2. 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, and the rash may appear 1 to 2 days later. A prodromal rash may occasionally occur.

3. Rash stage: Rash appears at the same time as fever or 1 to 2 days later, with the following characteristics:

(1) The number of rashes is large, ranging from hundreds to thousands.

(2) It first appears on the trunk and head, and then spreads to the whole body. Its distribution is centripetal, with more cases on the hairline, chest and back, less cases on the limbs and face, and occasionally on the palms and soles of feet. Rashes may also occur on the mucous membranes of the nose, pharynx, oral cavity, vulva, etc.

(3) The rash is often oval in shape, 3 to 5 mm in diameter, surrounded by a red halo. The blisters are superficial and easy to break. The rash develops rapidly, starting as erythema, which turns into papules within a few hours and then forms blisters. The skin feels itchy during herpes and then dries into scabs. This process sometimes only takes 6 to 8 hours. If there is no infection, the scabs will fall off after 1 to 2 weeks, and generally no scars will be left.

(4) The rash appears in batches, and macules, papules, vesicles and scabs may coexist in the same area.

(5) Atypical varicella often develops when there are causes such as immune deficiency, coagulation disorder and secondary infection. The rash is fused into bullous type, which can reach 2 to 7 cm in diameter and is prone to secondary Staphylococcus aureus infection and sepsis and death; the herpes is hemorrhagic, and the subcutaneous and mucous membrane ecchymoses are hemorrhagic type, which may be accompanied by bleeding in other parts of the body; large areas of skin necrosis and severe systemic poisoning symptoms are called necrotic type; the spread of lesions to involve internal organs is called disseminated type, which is more common in immunocompromised patients.

(6) Varicella infection during the first three months of pregnancy can cause congenital malformations in the fetus, which is called congenital varicella syndrome.

The above are some of the early symptoms of chickenpox introduced to you. I hope that those who don’t know about this will learn this knowledge carefully, so that you can go to a regular hospital for medical treatment as soon as the disease occurs and get rid of the torture of the disease as soon as possible. In addition, during the treatment period, everyone should not eat spicy or irritating foods.