Difference between rubella and hives

Most skin diseases now manifest themselves in similar ways. Although the causes of the diseases are different, the symptoms are similar. Many friends, when they suffer from rubella, often mistakenly treat rubella as urticaria because they are not familiar with this type of disease. The consequence of this will only make the skin disease more and more serious. When you suffer from skin diseases, you must distinguish them clearly in order to get effective treatment.

Rubella and urticaria are very similar, but in fact their causes, symptoms, and treatments are different. Therefore, learning to correctly distinguish between rubella and urticaria will help us quickly understand the child's condition and take correct treatment measures and care methods. So what is the difference between rubella and urticaria?

Difference between urticaria and hives. Urticaria is commonly known as hives, so many people mistakenly think that hives are rubella when they see doctors talking about hives. In fact, rubella and wheals are two completely different diseases. Rubella is a contagious disease caused by a viral infection. Usually, there may be low fever, cough and sore throat before the onset of the disease. It is mainly related to the rubella virus infection. After active treatment, the rash can completely disappear within a few days, and the rash of rubella is also relatively small. Urticaria is an allergic disease. The cause of urticaria is relatively complicated, but its clinical manifestation is wheal, while urticaria is manifested as macules. Urticaria will cause obvious itching, and the rash will appear and disappear intermittently. So urticaria and rubella are two completely different diseases, one is a viral disease and the other is an allergic disease.

1. Different causes: Rubella is mainly caused by upper respiratory tract infection with rubella virus; while urticaria is a rash symptom caused by children's contact with allergens.

2. Different rash symptoms: When rubella occurs, the rash generally appears as light red dots, while the rash of urticaria looks like small red bumps that appear after being bitten by mosquitoes.

3. Different treatments: The treatment of rubella usually aims to eliminate the virus, improve inflammation, and isolate the patient in bed to achieve the goal of recovery, while the treatment of urticaria aims to reduce the symptoms and frequency of the disease by finding and controlling allergens.

4. Infectivity: Rubella is slightly contagious and can usually be spread through saliva and air, while urticaria is not contagious and people can go out normally without isolation.

5. About lifelong immunity: Children who have recovered from rubella will generally not suffer from the disease again throughout their lives, but urticaria is different. Urticaria can only be avoided by controlling contact with allergens.