Essential Facts You Should Know about Baby Varicella or Chicken Pox
In the United States, nearly four million children are infected with varicella or chicken pox. This happens each year and more than four thousands hospitalization and nearly one hundred deaths each year. Varicella or Chicken Pox is a kind, self-limited, infection that mostly created by a varicella-zoster virus, a herpes virus. Mostly children are the victim of this disease aging three to six years old. So if you have a child at this very age, it is necessary to monitor you him regularly because it is not impossible for your child to have this kind of disease. However, it is also possible that babies aging 6 months to 2 years can be infected with chicken pox, too.
Primary viremia and secondary viremia are two things you have to remember if your child has chicken pox, together with this there are symptoms carried.
- Primary viremia—this is the first time that a person is infected with the varicella-zoster virus. Symptoms may occur such as Headache, anorexia, high fever, and general malaise.
- Secondary viremia—this can only occur if the viral particles are spreading and causing skin blisters due to this virus. Lesions may begin to be visible and start at the chest and spreading throughout the body parts; mostly in Legs, arms, and scalp. These skin lesions begin to appear few days after being infected. General malaise and fever may also emerge causing the lesion to become red maculae.
Children with chicken pox can experience those kinds of symptoms that are mentioned above. Blisters that are caused by this disease are not only appearing at the skin they can also occur inside the mouth, especially, in the throat and in tonsils.
Women who are pregnant with neonate chicken pox can be at risk. Because neonatal varicella can spread the virus across the placenta and it can be dangerous. It is caused by maternal virus infection, pregnant mothers with varicella can make a serious malformation to the fetus and sometimes it can lead to abnormalities.
If your baby has this disease he/she can be at high risk. As parents, make sure that your baby is vaccinated. And if any symptoms caused by the disease start to appear, like fever, do not use aspirin to lower the fever, because it can make it worse and cause Reyes Syndrome, use acetaminophen. Keep your baby hydrated and try to put cover in his/her hands and feet to avoid scratching the skin blisters.
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