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Chicken Pox

July 13, 2007

Chicken pox is a very common disease among children, usually effects a child who is twelve years or younger, so if you have a child within this age range, and the child is showing signs of chicken pox then you are going to want to take the to a doctor, to get some recommended treatment. When you are experiencing chicken pox then you will get a itchy rash that can spread across your whole body, chicken pox also is know to also sometimes come with some often flu related symptoms. Chicken pox symptoms usually do not need treatment for the disease to leave an infected person’s body. Sometimes to remember though that chicken pox is very contagious, any child that is infected with chicken pox should not be attending school, until all of the chicken pox symptoms are gone from your child, you need to keep your child home so that they do not spread chicken pox throughout there school. Ever had a child with chicken pox? If so tell us how you dealt with the symptoms, and how long it took for you child or self to lose the chicken pox symptoms.

                                           Chicken Pox

The virus that is the sole cause for chicken pox is (VZV) which  is also know medically as varicella-zoster virus. If you would like to protect your child or self from the chicken pox disease, you can get the chickenpox vaccine, which will usually help you never to get the chicken pox disease ever, even if you have already had it at one time or another. A medical group called the CDC urges people that are thirteen years or possibly older, who have never had any type of chicken pox signs, or symptoms to receive this VZV vaccine, and the CDC urges you to get this done twice, but make sure to have the vaccines at least twenty eight days between each treatment. So make sure if you are over this age, and have not had chicken pox to get the vaccine so that you can stay healthy, and never have to deal with the painful disease known as chicken pox.

 

In many cases, people only ever get the chicken pox disease once in there life, but VZU can often just lie dormant in your body, and cause other types of harmful disease to yourself, the disease this can called either “Herpes Zoster” or “Shingles”, this is why it is urged to get the vaccine because not only will you be able to avoid getting chicken pox, you could also dodge another disease shingles. By making surer the VZU in your body is not active. Ever gone to get your chicken pox shot? Let us know how long it take, and how it worked out for your self, by just leaving us a comment.

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