Quite often young parents panic, having found chickenpox in the kid. This disease at newborns can proceed with complications because immunity at them still unripe. The main thing at this moment is to be able to control a situation.
Forms of course of chickenpox
Most often chickenpox at children, especially aged about half a year, proceeds easily. On skin of the baby there are single rashes, and then heat-spots roll "waves". They are followed by high temperature, and indicators of the thermometer depend on quantity of the appeared elements.
Rash represents at first small red spots. They turn into the bubbles filled with transparent liquid. Further, later couple of days, crusts appear. On mucous appearance of rashes is also possible, but they quickly will become superficial erosion.
The baby, as a rule, hard has a disease because the constant itch disturbs. At the child the appetite vanishes, he sleeps badly, refuses a breast, is capricious and sleeps badly.
If you nurse the child, then it is very good. Put the kid to it according to his first requirement. The kid who is on artificial feeding does not need to be fed violently. Just you give to drink to him as often as possible water, compote or juice for children of the corresponding age. The severe form of chickenpox meets, unfortunately, rather often. The disease begins with emergence of high temperature. At the child the appetite vanishes, it becomes uneasy. Then there is rash. In certain cases it happens much, and temperature can rise to forty degrees. When there passes the first wave, the condition of the kid improves, but at manifestation of the second he will badly feel again. Rashes which affect mucous membranes are dangerous. For example, if they appeared in a throat, then the kid can have symptoms of a false croup or suffocation. In this case it is necessary to call the ambulance urgently.
Treatment of chickenpox
Treatment of chickenpox at children about one year, as a rule, symptomatic. If it has a high temperature, then give febrifugal, the naggers is removed allergy medicine. Heat-spots and bubbles need to be greased with solution of potassium permanganate or diamond greens. Medicine needs to be taken only with the permission of the doctor. It is very important to remember that small children should not give aspirin at all. It can provoke a so-called symptom of Ray. It represents damage of a brain and liver. Given diseases does not constitute special danger, but here complications which can arise, are very heavy. Children with low immunity can have an encephalitis, pneumonia and also damage of internals. Therefore such kids need to be hospitalized and treated under observation of doctors.