2.1 Identify the Signs and Symptoms of Common Childhood Illnessess

One or two days after, sores or blisters start to appear in or on the mouth and on the hands, feet and buttocks. In some cases, a skin rash’s appearance happens before the blisters do. The blisters may break open and crust over.

When the herpes simplex virus infection becomes active again, symptoms such as burning or stinging pain at the affected site is common, followed by pink bumps and small blisters. The blisters dry quickly and crust over, and the areas heal within a few days. Repeated attacks occur in roughly the same place each time.

Child feels generally unwell but should have no on-going symptoms. Teenagers/adults may experience painful swelling of testicles. Secondary infection of the membranes of the brain and hearing loss

You have trouble breathing. Both adults and children can have tight, uncomfortable lungs and chest during a cold. A cough that won't go away could be postnasal drip, but it could also be a sign of asthma or acid reflux. Talk to your doctor about it. If there’s a barking (it actually sounds like a small dog), wheezing or whooping sound along with the cough, there could be an infection called pertussis that can be treated.

It is not a serious health issue to healthy children and adults. It can cause problems for pregnant women, newborns, teens, adults, and people who have immune system problems. Chickenpox is spread easily. It can be spread by an infected person when they sneeze, cough, or you share food or drink with them. It can also be contracted by coming in contact with the liquid from a chickenpox blister. If you live with someone who has chickenpox, you have a much higher chance of contracting them. The first symptoms occur fourteen to sixteen days after a person is infected with the virus. Infected person usually feels sick and runs a fever; they have a loss of appetite, headache, cough, and sore throat. The rash appears a day or two after the other symptoms begin. After the rash appears, it takes a day or two for the spots to go through all of its stages. These stages include: blistering, bursting, drying, and crusting over. New spots will continue to appear for five to seven days. Ten days after the first symptoms is when all of the spots usually will have crusted over and it is okay to be around other

Whooping cough-Cold and cough symptoms. Cough will gradually get worse and after around 2 weeks the coughing bouts start. These will make it difficult for the child to breathe. The child may choke or vomit and may also get a whooping sound after coughing.

others notice as early as 3 days. The main indication of infection is a circular rash

The reddish-purple rash usually appears 3–5 days after the first symptoms begin. The rash often starts on the wrists and ankles. It may then spread to the palms, the soles of the feet, the legs, and the trunk.

When I get sick with the cold or flu, there are a few ways that I prefer to remedy my illness. For starters, having a fever is really uncomfortable to me, so I always will take some sort of fever reducer to help this. Usually this would be one or two Advil Liquid Gels, depending on the severity of my fever. If I start to feel my fever coming back later in the day, I will take another dosage of the Advil Liquid Gels. If I have a cough with mucus present, I will take one Mucinex to decongest myself. These effects will last most of the day, however a second dosage may be required I feel the mucus coming back. The final drug I take to keep my symptoms under control is NyQuil, which effects many symptoms associated with the cold and flu. These includes

Normal childhood infections and injuries are fairly simple to diagnose in childhood. It is simple to take a throat swab to find out if the teenager has strep throat or not. Unfortunately, some children have symptoms that are harder to diagnose. They may report symptoms like problems sleeping, fatigue, pain and achiness. While these could be symptoms of a variety of illnesses, it is possible that these symptoms could be caused by fibromyalgia. Known for causing pain in soft tissues and muscles around the joints, fibromyalgia is harder to diagnose in children than adults.

Itchy rash, and sports all over the body. Very uncomfortable. Scratchy, headache. Flu-like symptoms, muscle aches, fever and irritable. Aches and pains, stomach ache, appetite loss. Skin rash. and blisters, headache, muscle pain and red eye.

Once a person had been infected hough it is more unlikely for them to experience future infections through this virus (2).

a reddish bump known as Koplik's spots(Carson-DeWitt). Shortly after, the throat will become red, swollen, and sore(Carson-DeWitt). A couple of days after Koplik’s spots appear the actual measles rash begins, which progresses from the head, to the face and neck and to the trunk, and abdomen, next along the arms and legs(Carson-DeWitt). The rash appears to be flat, red patches, but eventually develops raised bumps. Once the rash starts to appear, the fever usually starts to climb higher reaching as high of 105 degrees fahrenheit(Carson-DeWitt). There may be vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, and swollen lymph nodes. Around this time the patient would be feeling awful. After 5 days the rash begins to fade, turns brown and starts to

Usually a person doesn’t start to get symptoms of measles until they have been infected with the virus for 7-11 days. The symptoms are:

Most adults suffer between 2–4 colds and flus each year. A person is contagious from the day before the illness breaks out until 1–3 days after they feel better. A cold usually lasts only a few days, while the flu can last several weeks to a month. The symptoms of a cold can include a general feeling of discomfort, a headache, nasal dryness and/or runny nose, and congestion of the upper respiratory tract.