What is chickenpox?What are the symptoms of chickenpox?

Answer 1

Chickenpox is a highly contagious illness that is common in children. It causes an itching skin rash with blisters. The disease is caused by the varicella-zoster virus and usually runs its course without problems.
The symptoms are:
# A rash that usually begins on the body and face and later often spreads to the scalp and limbs.

# It may also spread to the mucous membranes especially in the mouth and on the genitals.

# The rash is often itchy.

# It begins as small red spots which develop into blisters in a couple of hours.

# After one or two days, the blisters turn into scabs.

# New blisters may appear after three to six days.

# The number of blisters differs greatly from one person to another.

# The infected person may run a temperature.

# These symptoms are mild in young children.

# Chickenpox lasts 7 to 10 days in children and longer in adults.

# Adults can feel very ill and take longer to recover. They are also more likely than children to suffer complications.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Chickenpox, also spelled chicken pox, is the common name for Varicella simplex, classically one of the childhood infectious diseases caught and survived by most children.

It starts with conjunctival and catarrhal symptoms, moderate fever and then characteristic spots appearing in two or three waves, mainly on the body and head rather than the hands and becoming itchy raw pox (pocks), small open sores which heal mostly without scarring.

Answer 4

The first thing I found when my kids had chickenpox was a welt that looked like a cigarette burn. I thought my child was being abused when I was at work and took her to the hospital where they told me she had chickenpox. Sure enough, that night, she was covered in spots and I had to run to Wegmans at 3 am to get calamine lotion.

Answer 5

Chicken pox is a contagious disease . When your body become very heated up , you are bound to get chicken pox .
It usually starts with a high fever , body ache and small pimple kind on different parts of the body , like neck , forehead , hands , once you find such pimple kind all over body , then it is chicken pox , sometimes those become very big too.
During those time , you have to take care like you should never
take hot food items , spicy items ,
Only cold water , butter milk , oinions , fruits , etc , no mangoes or pineapple .

it will take 20 days to get cured completely.

Answer 6

If you have chicken pox, what ever you do, dont scratch that scab. You will have scars from one end of your body to the other end of your body.It's a virus thats in small children, usually passed around in day care centers, these little red bumps that do look like a pimple, spreads through out the body and has been known to be in the mouth area. Ran by high fevers,make sure you have alot of antibacteria cream in handy, due to the itching.

Answer 7

As some of your answers state, it is very DANGEROUS in adults. I had it when I was a child, and again as an adult. The chicken pox knocked out my kidneys and now I am on dialysis. Keep yourself safe.

Answer 8

I guess it is Smallpox for Chickens, Since you are not a chicken,
there is no thing to worry about.!! Just Kidding!
See your Doctor honey.

Answer 9

Check out the following website for more information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Pox

Good luck! Hope it helps.

Answer 10

Please see the webpage for more details on Chickenpox.