Smallpox Disease

Smallpox Disease - Smallpox is a bacterial infection that causes sore that quickly spread and accompanied by crust (crusta) yellow and shiny.Monkey pox is common in children's faces, especially around the mouth.

The disease is easily transmitted to others through wounds or through your fingers dirty.

A. Treatment:

A. Wash the affected part with soap and boiled water, wet and gently clean the crust

2. Apply gentian violet or antibiotic ointment such as tetracycline polyporin or on the wound, if you have any of these drugs

3. If the infection has spread and cause widespread or elevated body temperature, give penicillin tablets. This was done with the supervision of health workers.

B. Prevention:

A. Follow the instructions on Personal Hygiene. To familiarize themselves with the private health care, elder brother expected impact will be reduced.

2. Always wash hands with soap after waking in the morning, or after defecation and before eating.

3. Familiarize barefoot, also for children.

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4. Bathe the kids every day and they saving of bedbugs and the bites of flying insects that bite. If a child is suffering from scabies, Treat as soon as possible

5. Do not let a child suffering from smallpox allowed to sleep or play with other children. Begin to treat it as the first signs of smallpox appear.

C. Chicken Pox / shell / Varicella

Mild viral infection that began to occur 2 to 3 weeks after a child is infected by another child who had chickenpox.

Incubation period: 2-3 weeks

D. Signs of Chicken Pox:

First of all spots of the many small, red, and itchy. These spots later turned into a slight bump (papilla) or blisters (vesicula) is small, broken, and eventually form a scab (crusta). These spots usually begin to appear on the body, then spread on the face, arms, and legs. There may be spots, blisters and scabs while at the same time.

E. Prevention of Chicken Pox

A. Vaccination 7

2. Varicella Zoster Immunoglobulin (VZIG) .3

Treatment:

This infection will last for one week. Bathe the child daily with soap and warm water. To relieve itching, attach a piece of cloth soaked with a liquid derived from grain and water that has been boiled and filtered. Trim your fingernails short people. If keropengnya infections, apply gentian violet or antibiotic ointment on the scab.

F. The facts about chickenpox:

A. Chickenpox disease commonly encountered in children and 90% were younger than 9 years. While at the age of 15 years, the percentage of people who had chicken pox already reached 90%.

2. Smallpox is caused by primary infection (first) Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV).

3. After being cured, VZV does not necessarily disappear from the body. This virus will persist in certain parts of the nerve and then activated again to herpes zoster (chickenpox or shingles snake)

4. Herpes zoster usually occurs at the age of 60 years.

5. Death rates from chickenpox of about 1.4: 100,000

6. In some groups, chickenpox may cause serious complications of chickenpox are like the weight of the body, pneumonia, and hepatitis

G. Vulnerable groups of measles:

A. Infants under the age of 28 days

2. People with weak immune system (e.g. patients with HIV, organ transplant recipients, receiving chemotherapy, patients with leukemia)