What should I do if I have chickenpox? What to do if you have chickenpox

Chickenpox is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by the chickenpox virus. It is mainly transmitted through the respiratory tract through sneezing and coughing droplets, and can also be caused by contact with toys, clothes, utensils, etc. contaminated with the virus. Chickenpox usually occurs in infants and young children between the ages of 1 and 4 years, and lifelong immunity can be acquired after the disease.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this disease is caused by the external infection of evil viruses and dampness and heat. The clinical manifestations are: history of contact with chickenpox within 2-3 weeks before the onset of the disease, mild symptoms before the rash, mild or severe fever, runny nose, cough, loss of appetite, etc., often on the day of onset or on the second day of rash, red macules or maculopapular rash, which evolves into small blisters within a few hours, and dries out and crusts after 1-3 days.

The rash will appear in batches over a period of 3-4 days, so you can see four different forms of rash at the same time, mainly on the trunk and head and face, and less on the extremities. The whole course of the disease is usually about 2 weeks.

Traditional Chinese medicine**Chickenpox can be added or subtracted with five-flavor disinfectant drink or stomach clearing and detoxification soup, and dietary therapy prescriptions can also be used

Mung bean kelp soup – cook the soup with mung beans and kelp, then add sugar to serve;

barley rice porridge or 60-120 grams of barley rice boiled water as tea;

Lentil porridge or smearing the affected area with lentil flour can play a role in detoxifying and building muscles.

If you notice that your child has chickenpox, isolate them until the rash has all crusted over. Let the child rest more, pay special attention to the cleanliness and hygiene of **, when the rash is very itchy, you can use calamine lotion or prickly heat water to apply to the rash to relieve itching. Also pay attention to cutting the nails short, wash hands frequently, try to avoid scratching the child**, if necessary, wrap the baby's hands with a cloth to avoid secondary infection after scratching**.

In terms of diet, you should eat more light and easily digestible food, drink more water, avoid cold and greasy food, do not eat spicy foods such as green onions, ginger, chili peppers, etc., and often drink mung bean soup to clear heat and detoxify.

Chickenpox is mainly transmitted by respiratory droplets and contact, which is airborne and highly contagious, and can be immunized for life after a single illness. The onset occurs after an incubation period of 10 to 24 days after infection with the virus. Sick children are contagious from 24 hours before the rash to 7 to 10 days after the rash, and try not to come into contact with the sick child during this time, otherwise they are very susceptible to infection.

Care for chickenpox:

Most of the children can recover quickly, and they can take traditional Chinese medicine appropriately, such as: Hua Toxin San, Banlan Root, etc., and when there is a secondary bacterial infection, antibiotics should be used. During the treatment, pay attention to the following:

1. Children should be isolated alone, the room should be ventilated, well-lit, and bed rest should be taken when they have a fever.

2. Drink more warm water, give easy to digest, vitamin-rich liquid or semi-liquid diet, and rest more when you have a fever.

3. The quilt should not be too thick or too much, because sweating too hot will make the rash itchy. Keep clothes and bedding clean to avoid secondary infection.

4. Cut the child's nails short and keep their hands clean to reduce the possibility of scratching chickenpox and causing infection. Infants and toddlers can wrap their hands in gauze or wear gloves. For chickenpox that has been scratched, apply 1% gentian purple potion. If suppuration is used, chlortetracycline and erythromycin ointment are applied.

5. Pay attention to the changes in the condition, if the rash persists after the high fever does not go away, accompanied by vomiting and convulsions, you should seek medical attention immediately.

If you go to school and infect other people, and the school won't let you go to school, half of it will be fine in about 10 days.

Be sure to pay attention to your diet before chickenpox scabs over, I'm having chickenpox right now.

Be sure to take a break for the first few days, because it's really hard.

Don't bask in the wind and sun (I've heard it will leave scars).

Do not eat spicy fishy fish (shallots, ginger, garlic, mustard, horseradish, seafood).

Do not eat all meat (beef, sheep, chicken, pig, etc.).

Do not eat hair (sprouts, mushrooms, bread containing hair, etc.).

Can't eat milk, eggs, wine, coriander, leeks, toon.

Cold things such as fruits are best boiled and eaten, cold and eat is not impossible, I sometimes eat cucumbers or something raw, but it is better to shout in the mouth for a longer time so that he is not too cold.

Remember that you should never use hot water, salt water rubbing, alcohol rubbing, using cosmetics, and hand grabbing.

Keep your body clean, change your clothes and sheets frequently, use hot water to iron your clothes, and don't make your clothes too tight or thick so as not to aggravate the itching.

The above is what the doctor told me, and here are some of the things I looked up online.

During the period when children suffer from chickenpox, they should avoid eating ginger, green onions, garlic, onions, leeks, chili peppers, peppers, mustard greens, coriander, shallots, shiitake mushrooms, pumpkin, toon, brassica, goose, hairtail, yellow croaker, lychee, longan meat, plums, apricots, jujubes, persimmons, pomegranates, cherries, chestnuts, as well as fried peanuts, fried broad beans, fried melon seeds, glutinous cakes, rice cakes, fatty meat, lard, fennel, curry, mustard, etc.

ps: These days, I drink rice porridge or millet porridge and soy milk in the morning, plus two corns.

When eating rice at noon, the dishes are sprinkled with salt over and over again, and the soup is also sprinkled with some salt and sesame oil with the same dish.

At night, because I eat fruit or something during the day, I am not too hungry and only drink porridge (fruits can eat papaya, apples, pears, this is what I have been eating recently), be sure to drink plenty of water.

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Oral administration of banlangen. Calamine lotion can be applied externally.

Do not eat meat, fish, shrimp. And eggs, don't eat them, just eat grains, don't take medicine.