Chicken Pox Essay, Research Paper

Everybody knows what the chicken pox are, they are

when you get bumps all over your body. The cause of the

chicken pox is the virus varicella. Males and females are

both able to get the virus, but children ages five to six are

the most likely to be infected.Like I said chicken pox is caused by the virus

varicella. Chicken pox is very contagious and unless you

got it at birth one attack carries lifelong immunity. The

chain infection is only present if a group of people come in

contact with an infected person or anything the infected

person has come in contact with. It is usually received in

the cooler months of the year and goes away by itself in

two to three weeks. The symptoms of chicken pox is a rash that appears

after about three days. In order it starts at the trunk (the

legs), spreads to the face, and then to the extremities. The

infected person will get to temperatures of one hundred and

two degrees Fahrenheit and that will last throughout the

breakout. The rash is quite itchy and becomes dry, crusted,

and falls off in a week. More bumps will come about every

three days. Scars will be present if they get infected, badly

scratched or removed. A physician is not usually not needed to make a

diagnosis but after the symptoms appear it is still best to

make sure it is the chicken pox and not something much

worse. The physician can easily make a diagnosis by

checking the basic symptoms. Chicken pox is controlled by keeping the infected

person and anything the infected person has come in

contact with away from any people who have never

become infected. There is not really a treatment, just

medicine so that the rash does not itch. The disease blows

over by itself.The disease cannot really be prevented because almost

everybody gets it. The only precautions a person can take

is to stay out of contact with people that are currently

infected and anything they have in contact with.The outcome is usually that the rash and fever go away and the person will come back to normal. Unless the

person got the disease when they were newborn they will

never get the disease again. If they scratched the scabs or

they let them get infected then there will be scars. Besides

that the person will be fine.