Chiken Pox - Can some help?

Question

I am m 36 who has been infecated with chiken pox. Can you please guide how to mage this situation. Do we have any good tratement or just rest ?

Answer 1

Rest, tylenol for the pain, benadry/caladry for the itching and dont scratch. It will leave big scars all over you. Good luck! Stay out of the sun, will make the breakout worse. Aveeno baths help also. I thought it was bad when I got them at the age of 12.

Answer 2

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Chiken Pox - Can some help?
I am m 36 who has been infecated with chiken pox. Can you please guide how to mage this situation. Do we have any good tratement or just rest ?

Answer 3

Unfortunately there isnt any way to get rid of them. Your best bet is to put calamine lotion on the sores for itching and DO NOT SCRATCH. They can and will spread. Other than that it is plenty of fluids and rest and relaxation. Luckily,at the most, this thing lasts for about two weeks. I hope you feel better soon.

Answer 4

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

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.

Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), also known as human herpes virus 3 (HHV-3), one of the eight herpes viruses known to affect humans. 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.

Chickenpox is highly infectious and spreads from person to person by direct contact or through the air from an infected person’s coughing or sneezing. Touching the fluid from a chickenpox blister can also spread the disease. A person with chickenpox is contagious 1-2 days before the rash appears and until all blisters have formed scabs. This may take between 5-10 days.[1] It takes from 10-21 days after contact with an infected person for someone to develop chickenpox.

The chickenpox lesions (blisters) start as a 2-4 mm red papule which develops an irregular outline (rose petal). A thin-walled, clear vesicle (dew drop) develops on top of the area of redness. This "dew drop on a rose petal" lesion is very characteristic for chickenpox. After about 8-12 hours the fluid in the vesicle gets cloudy and the vesicle breaks leaving a crust. The fluid is highly contagious, but once the lesion crusts over, it is not considered contagious. The crust usually falls off after 7 days sometimes leaving a craterlike scar. Although one lesion goes through this complete cycle in about 7 days, another hallmark of chickenpox is the fact that new lesions crop up every day for several days. Therefore, it may take about a week until new lesions stop appearing and existing lesions crust over. Children are not sent back to school until all lesions have crusted over.

The contagious period for chickenpox begins about 2 days before the rash appears and lasts until all the blisters are crusted over. A child with chickenpox should be kept out of school until all of the blisters have dried, which is usually about 1 week, but you don't have to wait until all the scabs fall off to let your child get back to a normal schedule.

Second infections with chickenpox occur in immunocompetent individuals, but are uncommon. Such second infections are rarely severe. A soundly-based conjecture being carefully assessed in countries with low prevalence of chickenpox due to immunisation, low birth rates, and increased separation is that immunity has been reinforced by sub-clinical challenges and this is now less common. This is more dangerous with shingles. There have been reported cases of repeat infections.

http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/001972.htm

A prescription drug called acyclovir has been approved by the FDA for use in treating the symptoms of chickenpox in people older than 2 years. The drug should help reduce the severity of chickenpox symptoms, especially in older children and teenagers, if taken within 24 hours of the rash's first appearance.

This drug is generally only used in severe cases of chickenpox and in patients who are immunosuppressed, such as cancer patients and transplant recipients.

Answer 5

From what I remember, you should stay out of sunlight as much as possible, and above all, DON'T SCRATCH THE SORES! You can put something on them to help, like calladryll or callamine, but it's best to let them get dry and go away.

Answer 6

Chicken Pox can be very serious at 36 years old. Please speak to your doctor about other symptoms to watch for so that you can prevent the illness from really hurting you. Other than that, relax and don't pick!!

Answer 7

maybe a cool bath or a anti itch/pain relieving cream from a DR., but mostly relax & try not to scratch, maybe a good pain killer to knock ya out:} (just kiddin') an aloe bath maybe, u should ask ur DR before trying anything over the counter, ya dont wanna make it worse...good luck

Answer 8

Don't scratch the spots, stay hydrated, have some chicken soup and rest. You might want to get some kind of lotion to ease the itchiness, and iff you get a sore throat, congestion, etc. , get something from your pharmacy. (Or have a family member get it for you.)

Answer 9

As for children Pintarsol in the bath and antihystimine to take the edge of the itch and rest....you poor thing

Answer 10

Do not feel bad i had the same case as yours the magic lies on calamine lotion it keep you from itching and remember to take antibiotics in my case the doc recommended amoxyl. good luck