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During a time of outbreak, cool compresses of Burow's solution can remove crusts and ease pain. Oral anti-viral agents should be initiated within 48 hours of rash. There are several choices in this category, including (Lexi-Comp, Inc, 2016)

The medicine is applied from the neck, all the way down and must be left on for at least eight hours. You can also kill the mites from using oral medications. Some medicines are Permethrin cream, Lindane lotion, Crotamiton also know as Eurax, and Ivermectin also known as Stromectol. Crotamiton is available as a cream or a lotion and it's applied once a day for two days. As for Ivermectin, doctors usually prescribe this oral medication for people who have altered immune systems, or for the people who don't get results from the prescription lotions and

Shingles, herpes zoster, is a very contagious and painful rash, or blister that appears on the skin. These rashes most commonly appear on the sides of the body in stripes. The stripes are made up of many very painful blisters caused by a certain type of virus. The varicella zoster, most commonly known as the chicken pox virus attacks the nerve roots in that area. The herpes zoster virus is in the herpes family, including HSV, herpes simple virus, which causes cold sores, fever blisters, and genital herpes. (WebMD, 2011) Most people are required to get the chicken pox shot when they are children although some do not. The chicken pox shot helps to keep out the virus by keeping it dormant in the nerves. The varicella zoster virus stays in a

Patient will be instructed to shower/bathe at home and educated not to use any perfume and/or lotion after.

There is also a vaccine recommended to anyone 50 and older to help prevent the outbreak of shingles.

○ An epinephrine injection helps to manage life-threatening allergic reactions, but you still need to go to the emergency room even if epinephrine seems to work. This is important because anaphylaxis may happen again within 72 hours (rebound anaphylaxis).

Anaphylactic shock is also an emergency condition. Treatment can include intubation to open the airway and assist in breathing, epinephrine shot, CPR, and antihistamine (Dugdale, 2012).

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

Shingles is a skin disease that causes large rashes and blisters. The shingles virus normally comes after you have had the chicken pox. Once you have gotten the chicken pox the shingles virus is already inside of you. This doesn’t exactly mean that you will get shingles if you have had the chicken pox it just means you are more likely to get it. The correct name of the virus that gives shingles is varicella zoster virus this virus is the same for chicken pox. The shingle virus can stay dormant inside of someone for years but when it comes awake it will travel up nerves and whatever those nerves control is what will be affected. According to (The british skin foundation) “About 20% of people who have had chickenpox will have an attack of shingles

Chickenpox’s history has various contributors. Several corpses have been found with chickenpox as the apparent cause of death. In the 1500s, an Italian physician Giovanni Filippo gave the first description of varicella in literature and clearly distinguished it from scarlet fever; he is also known for other several important contributions to medicine, anatomy, and virology. In the late 1600s, English physician Richard Morton gave the name chickenpox to what he thought was a milder form of smallpox. Another English physician, William Heberden, undertook the first independent study of the disease in 1767, and he proved that chickenpox was actually different from smallpox. Since then much more information has been learned about chickenpox.

Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV) causes the infection of chickenpox, but you are more likely to get infected by touching someone that already has the disease. The disease can spread by: saliva, coughing, sneezing, and contact with the fluid from the blisters.

People who have had chickenpox are at risk for shingles. Infection is more common in people who:

Soak her to the skin, lather, then rinse thoroughly to prevent dull, sticky coat and dry skin.

Nature has a soothing and healing affect. There is poison ivy which will irritate your skin, but growing near it in the surrounding area, is jewelweed, a natural cure for the itch. There is the

Before vaccines were introduced, varicella was endemic in the United States, and virtually all persons acquired varicella at some point before adulthood (cdc.gov, 2006). It is reported that 4 million cases of chickenpox were recorded in the U.S. each year before the vaccine was introduced. Although some states reported cases of varicella to the CDC, it was eliminated from the list of nationally notifiable conditions in 1981. Children under 10 years of age make up between 75 – 90 % of chickenpox cases. In 1995, due to the availability of the vaccine in the U.S., hospitalizations due to chickenpox has declined by nearly 90% (Hambleton, & Gershon, 2005).