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Vaccination introduces weakened viral particles to the immune system so that it can mount a strong response when it comes in contact with stronger virulent particles.

Varicella vaccine is usually given to toddlers between ages of 12-15 months

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Focus on ways to boost your immune system to naturally preventing chickenpox.

Getting more sleep, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, cutting down refined sugars

Reduce alcohol consumption, quit cigarette smoking, practice good hygiene and light exercise

Dietary supplements intake such as vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc

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3. Avoid other children and adults with chickenpox.

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3. Avoid other children and adults with chickenpox.

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Avoiding people who are infected is a good strategy to help prevent contracting chickenpox as it is highly contagious.

Isolate them in their room to prevent the infection from spreading

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Disinfecting your house as a form of prevention if a child or other household member is infected because chickenpox is so contagious.

Make sure clothes, bed sheets and towels of infected person washed thoroughly

Do not rub your eyes or put fingers in the mouth after touching someone with chickenpox

Wash hands multiple times daily with regular soap

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Letting it run its course is the best way of gaining natural immunity to the varicella zoster virus which will prevent future infections.

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6. Talk to your doctor about antiviral drugs.

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6. Talk to your doctor about antiviral drugs.

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Drugs called antivirals are recommended for people who have a high risk of complications from chickenpox as they are able to kill viruses or prevent them from reproduce in the body.

Valacyclovir and famciclovir are only for adults

Natural antiviral compounds that can be taken as supplements include vitamin C, olive leaf extract, garlic and oregano oil

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Chickenpox is caused by Human Herpes Virus 3 which also known as Varicella Zoster Virus. It commonly infecting children, teenager and young adult. When a person is healed from the symptoms of chickenpox, the virus will stay in the body and can be reactivated back in adulthood. Once it is reactivated, it is no called as chickenpox but, shingles.

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It is an antiviral therapy in which help to treat the viral infection and reduce the symptoms.

This medication should be taken orally and it is best to start taking acyclovir as soon as possible after the first sign of the chickenpox rash (72hrs on early onset)

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2. Varicella zoster immune globulin (VZIG) 

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2. Varicella zoster immune globulin (VZIG) 

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Contain high level of IgG antibodies to help against the varicella-zoster virus. It is given to individual who having high risk to get complication of chickenpox (e.g. infant, pregnant women, immunodeficient patient)

This medication is given through either intramuscular injection or intravenous injection.

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It is also recommend for chickenpox patient to get daily bath with warm water for helping in reduce itch.

Clipping nail also recommend to avoid from secondary bacterial infection.

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It is also called as physical examination where the doctor will observed and test any clinical symptoms to the patient. In this method, doctor generally diagnosed based on rash.

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The Tzank Test is one of the rapid test to determining chickenpox. This test required blister sample from patient

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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Varicella Zoster Virus: Procedures for Collecting Varicella Skin Lesions and Blood Specimens

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3. Direct Fluorescent Antibody (DFA) Test

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3. Direct Fluorescent Antibody (DFA) Test

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It is a qualitative detection of Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) in cell cultures by immunofluorescence method.

In this method, the VZN-antigen are observed under fluorescence microscope

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It is a most sensitive method for confirming a diagnosis of varicella
from scabs, vesicular fluid, or cells samples.

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5. Complete Blood count & Liver Test Function

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5. Complete Blood count & Liver Test Function

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If the patient is suspected to receive complication from chickenpox (e.g. streptococcal infections, pneumonia, liver failure, Reye's syndrome), the doctor will conduct further investigation through complete blood count and liver test function.

**Complete blood count: measures several components of blood such as rbc, wbc, platelet

** Liver function test: measures the state of patient' liver.

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Similar to previous procedure, this CSF analysis is conducted to patient that been suspected to receive complication from chickenpox (e.g. encephalitis, cerebellar ataxia), the doctor will conduct further investigation through observing content on cerobrospinal fluid.

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Chickenpox vaccine lessens likelihood of pediatric shingles

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Chickenpox vaccine lessens likelihood of pediatric shingles

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A 97-year old woman has died from complications related to chickenpox, despite having previously suffered from the infection.

The unnamed pensioner died of a heart attack after a delay treating the disease, according to a report in the journal BMJ Case Reports.

She is thought to be the oldest person to suffer and die from the disease in the UK.

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Chickenpox is an "ageless disease" and should not be automatically ruled out in older people, the report's authors warned. Early diagnosis and treatment are "essential" to avoid complications, they added.

The woman was first taken to the emergency department of London's Princess Royal University Hospital, after suffering from fever and vomiting.

She developed the characteristic rash associated with chickenpox four days earlier.

Doctors initially failed to diagnose the disease which they ruled out because of her age and initially thought she was suffering cellulitis and a rare, blister-causing condition, pemphigus, as possible causes.

Otherwise healthy and living alone independently, the pensioner was started on a steroid treatment for pemphigus. This was later determined to be "inappropriate".

Chickenpox is caused by a virus, varicella zoster. It is most common in children and usually clears up on its own, although it can be dangerous in pregnant women, newborn babies and people with a weakened immune system.

Catching the disease twice is extremely rare because an initial infection means life-long immunity.

However the paper notes: "There are five distinct genotypes of the virus and multiple strains. Therefore, acquiring chickenpox from one strain may not always confer protection from infection by another strain."

After two days of acute care the patients was moved to a geriatric ward where they reassessed her symptoms and came to the conclusion that chicken pox was the most likely candidate.

Although she was started on a new treatment and reported feeling better, she developed atrial fibrillation and suffered a heart attack (myocardial infarction).

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"Despite attempts to control her heart failure, she deteriorated and passed away 16 days into her admission," the team wrote. "To our knowledge, we present the oldest reported case of primary varicella zoster infection in an immunocompetent patient.

"Due to the age of the patient, the condition was incorrectly diagnosed as pemphigus leading to inappropriate steroid administration."

It says the lessons for future doctors, included not ruling out chickenpox on age alone and identifying and treating it early because "varicella zoster is associated with significant disease, including strokes and varicella pneumonitis."

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Woman catches chickenpox and dies - after already having it as a child

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A 97-year old woman has died from complications related to chickenpox, despite having previously suffered from the infection. The unnamed pensioner died of a heart attack after a delay treating the disease, according to a report in the journal BMJ Case Reports.

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Chickenpox | Varicella Zoster Virus | Pathogenesis, Signs and Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment

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The most commonly reported signs and symptoms of chickenpox described here.
SIGNS

Vesicular rash appears on the scalp, face and trunk, then spreads distally to limbs

Vesicles on mucous membranes

Reduced urine output

Dehydration

Spots turns into itchy blister

SYMPTOMS

Nausea

Muscle aches

Loss of appetite

Headache

Sore throat

Fatigue

Pruritus

Fever

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 A timeline to illustrate the typical sequence of events following infection with Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV)

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 A timeline to illustrate the typical sequence of events following infection with Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV)

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Chickenpox usually follows a mild, self limiting course in otherwise healthy children.

Following exposure to VZV, patients typically experience generalised systemic upset, such as nausea, myalgia, fever and reduced appetite, before the appearance of skin lesions which is the the incubation period up to 21 days.

The infectious period is typically 8-10 days. The virus is highly contagious in the 2-3 days preceding the appearance of the rash and persists until all the vesicles have crusted over. This is clinically important when considering the spread of infection to vulnerable groups, such as immunocompromised children, pregnant women or neonates, who may benefit from administration of Varicella Zoster immunoglobulin following exposure.

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Rapidly progressive polymorphic eruption 

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Rapidly progressive polymorphic eruption 

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The distinctive features of chickenpox are a rapidly progressive polymorphic eruption from rose-coloured macules to papules, vesicles, pustules and crusts.

The generalised itchy rash appears in crops, which typically first appear a few days after the onset of the prodromal fever and malaise.

The distribution of the rash is variable, but lesions usually appear centrally on the face and trunk before spreading to the limbs. As lesions begin to heal and scab over, new peripheral lesions develop. Complete resolution of the rash is expected within two weeks of the onset of signs and symptoms, and most lesions heal without scarring.

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Lets look at what is all about MPVPCS :

1) Macule - flat spots at least 1 cm in size

2) Papule - raised skin lesions less than 1 cm in size

3) Vesicle - which is small, fluid-filled sacs that form in about one day and then break and leak

4) Pustule - sometimes the vesicle consists of pus filled sacs.

5) Crust - which cover the broken blisters and take several days to heal

6) Scar -  inflammation of skin which is common in chickenpox lead to scar with sunken appearance

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The causes of chickenpox is the Varicella-zoster virus (VZV).

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Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease caused by the initial infection with varicella zoster virus. It is common in children, teens and young adults.

How did chickenpox gets its name?

One of the theories said that the blisters or red spots seen in chickenpox once thought to look like chickpeas.

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1. What is the scientific name for the chicken pox virus?
A Vaccinia virus
B HIV virus

CHuman papilloma virus

D Varicella zoster virus

2. What can mostly prevent chicken pox?
A. It can't be prevented.

B. A pill can prevent it.

C. It is prevented by a plant.

D. It can be prevented by a vaccine.

3. Which of the following are not symptoms of chicken pox?

A. chills

B. rash

C. runny nose

D. coughing

4. What is the usual outcome of chicken pox in children?
A. on-and-off sickness for a few weeks

B. recovering in about a month
C. recovering in a couple of days

D. recovery in a week or so

5. Which ages account for half of the victims of chicken pox?
A. 0-4

B. 32+

C. 10-31

D. 5-9

6. Chicken pox isn't contagious.

A. True

B. False

7. Does chicken pox usually last longer in children or adults?

A. Adults

B. Adults cannot get the disease.

C. Children

D. Both adults and children have it for the same amount of time.

8. Most people only get chicken pox once in their lifetime.

A. True

B. False

9. The virus that causes chicken pox is a part of what virus family?

A. retroviruses

B. coronaviruses

C. herpesviruses

D. poxviruses

10. The spots, which are symptoms of the chicken pox disease, start in which of the following places?

A. face and trunk

B. inside the body
C. hands and feet

D. knees and elbows

-QUESTION END-

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Did you know that this virus can be transmitted through airborne respiratory droplets like
-Coughing
-Sneezing
-Laughing

If you come across someone who has chickenpox, beware! The virus can be transmitted through direct contact with vesicle fluid from the blister of chickenpox patient. If you touch their clothes that has the vesicle fluid on it, you might also be infected with the virus!

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No, chickenpox is usually a milder disease compared to shingles even though they are caused by the same virus. Chickenpox is caused by the INITIAL INFECTION of varicella zoster virus whereas shingles results from REACTIVATION of the virus long after chickenpox has disappeared.

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1. The VZV transmission by airborne droplet. Can also occur by direct personal contact.
2. Once inside the body, virus accumulate in upper respiratory tract. T-cells mainly CD4+ and CD8+ attack the virus. The T-cells infected
3. Incubation period takes about 10-21 days. Viruses increase lead to viremia
4. The infected T-cells carry the viruses to the keratinocyte
5. Body immune mechanism like A-interferon produced to control the multiplication of viruses
6. The viruses overcome the body immune system & develop cutaneous lesions.
7. This is said to be secondary viremia. There are presence of small vesicles with pus.
8. The pus filled with infected cell particles on the skin surface
9. A person said to stop being infectious after all lesion crusted
10. When cured, this is said to be primary infection. the virus will dormant in dorsal root of ganglion
11. When the immunocompromised happen, viruses active again and form shingles.