What should I do if my baby has chickenpox? What should I do if my baby has chickenpox?

My baby is now more than a year old and one day suddenly noticed that he had a small transparent blister in his palm with water in it. I was worried about hand, foot and mouth disease, and I was very uneasy. Later, when I took it to the hospital for vaccination, I asked the doctor, and the doctor said that we couldn't get a vaccination with small blisters, and asked us to go to the ** department to have a look.

**After seeing it, the doctor said that it was fine, it was not very serious, don't let the baby play with the water with his hands, and he will be fine after a while. Later, when my baby was playing with other babies, I saw that other babies also had small transparent blisters on their hands, and his mother said that mosquitoes would become transparent blisters after biting the baby, because the baby** was too tender. That's when I was reassured.

If this happens, don't worry.

If the baby does not have a fever and the overall symptoms are not serious, it can usually be treated without medication and will heal on its own. If you have a fever, you can take fever-reducing medications. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children with chickenpox use acetaminophen (i.e., Tylenolin) to reduce fever and reduce the discomfort of rashes, and ibuprofen (i.e., Motrin) is not recommended.

Healthy children younger than 12 years of age generally do not need routine antivirals** because complications are rare, and when they do occur, they are mild.

Pay attention to help your baby relieve itching. Babies generally have itchy whole body when chickenpox, and you can use appropriate anti-itch drugs under the guidance of a doctor to avoid babies scratching herpes on their bodies with their hands. If the baby is very small, you can put cotton gloves on the baby to prevent scratching the rash and causing **infection.

Drink plenty of water and isolate from other children. Dress your child in soft and breathable clothes, and choose a quilt that is breathable, light and soft. Cut short and round your child's nails to avoid scratches.

If it has been scratched, antibiotic ointment can be applied. Avoid prolonged exposure to hot and humid environments. Bathe your child in warm water and use less alkaline body wash.

Use a body lotion in time after bathing to moisturize, because dryness can aggravate the itching sensation.

Avoid scratching the rash by your baby. Older babies, if it is difficult to control the baby to scratch the rash, you can also cut the baby's nails appropriately shorter, in short, you must try to avoid the baby scratching the herpes to avoid infection.

When chickenpox comes out, the wound will become very itchy, in order to avoid the baby from scratching the blisters due to unbearable itching, to prevent infection of other ** parts. Baby's supplies should be dedicated. Keep it clean and dry, and you should change your baby's clothes frequently.

The baby's clothes and bedding should be dried frequently. It is necessary to closely observe the condition and find out whether there are complications as soon as possible, such as finding that the baby has a high fever that does not go away, vomiting, headache, irritability or drowsiness, or should find a doctor for diagnosis and treatment in time.

First of all, the baby should be isolated, and then go to the hospital to consult the doctor to use relevant drugs**, antibiotics can be used, or intravenous drips, and the baby should be fed during chickenpox, pay attention to light food.

It is necessary to keep the child at home and isolate, and it is also necessary to apply ointment to the child, and it is also necessary to give the child a light diet and do not let the child scratch it with his hands.

At this time, try to give your child some food to clear away the heat and reduce the fire, and secondly, you should also pay attention to your child's hands and do not let your child touch chickenpox.

Chickenpox is more common in preschool children aged 2-6 years, so mothers should know what to do if their children have chickenpox, so as to care for the healthy growth of children. Chickenpox is an acute infectious disease caused by varicella-zoster virus infection, so children should pay attention to antiviral** in chickenpox**, and at the same time isolate** to avoid infection.

What to do if your child has chickenpox

What to do if your child has chickenpoxChickenpox does not necessarily require hospitalization**, and if the condition is not very severe, mothers can take care of it at home. If you have a high fever, you can take antipyretics for children. However, if the child's condition is serious, take the child to the hospital immediately.

In addition, parents should pay attention to the following four aspects when taking care of their children with chickenpox.

1. Isolation to avoid infection: Because chickenpox is a highly contagious acute infectious disease, the main transmission routes are respiratory tract and direct contact. When the baby is diagnosed with chickenpox, if it is a kindergarten child, mothers should take the baby home for isolation** to avoid infecting other children.

Isolation should continue until all herpes is dry and crusted over.

2. Open windows to promote air circulation: Air circulation also has the effect of killing viruses in the air. Of course, mothers should also pay attention to the temperature in the room should not be too low to avoid the baby getting cold and illness, and pay attention to keeping warm. In addition, the room is irradiated by sunlight and can use ultraviolet rays to kill viruses.

3. Children's daily necessities should be disinfected separately: clothes, bedding, towels, dressings, toys, and tableware that come into contact with chickenpox herpes liquid should be washed, sunned, scalded, boiled, and burned and disinfected according to the situation, and should not be shared with healthy adults. At the same time, it is necessary to change clothes and quilts frequently and keep them clean.

4. Avoid children from scratching acne rash with their hands: When children have chickenpox, the ** part will feel itchy, and the child will accidentally scratch the acne rash and aggravate the infection. Therefore, mothers should pay attention to asking their children not to scratch the acne rash on the face, hands, etc., so as not to cause the herpes to be scratched and suppurated, and if the lesion is deeply damaged, it may leave scars.

To prevent this from happening, cut your child's nails short and keep their hands clean. A pair of gloves with a raw edge outwards can be sewn, or gauze can be wrapped around his hands. When the itching of the child is severe, calamine lotion can be applied to the undamaged area.

**If the herpes breaks, apply 1% purple syrup, or antibiotic ointment if suppurated.

Oral acyclovir tablets, acyclovir ointment foam for chickenpox, it will be fine in about a week, pay attention not to let the baby scratch the chickenpox, otherwise it will leave a scar.

Don't use your hands to grab it, the habit in our hometown is to eat some hair products, such as dog meat, and let it come out.

If there is chickenpox, you must take good care of the child, because chickenpox is contagious and you can't see the wind;

1. Keep the room clean and dry.

2. Pay attention to whether the child has a fever and give the child more boiled water.

3. Avoid eating cold and hot food.

4. Children's utensils and towels must be kept clean.

5. Be careful not to go out to see the wind and rest at home.

6. If chickenpox does not come out and you have a fever, you have to go to the doctor, if it has come out, you don't need to see a doctor, you don't need to take medicine and injections, the general pathological period is seven days, and it will be good to scab after seven days;

7. Chickenpox will be a little itchy, remember not to let the child scratch, it will leave a scar after scratching;

Don't let him scratch it, that will leave a scar.

Go to the hospital and take more calcium tablets and VC to strengthen your immunity.