Chicken pox (chicken pox) - high contagious infectious disease of mainly children's age characterised bubble by an eruption.

The originator - a virus from family herpesvirus, in an environment is unstable and perishes in some minutes.

Chicken pox source - the sick person. Infectious it becomes for 48 h before occurrence of an eruption and keeps this ability to drying crusts. The chicken pox can catch from the patient the surrounding it is deprived, as the originator of these diseases same.

The chicken pox air-drop by is transferred. Infection through the third parties and the subjects which were in the use at the patient, is practically excluded in view of small firmness of a virus in an environment.

Susceptibility to a chicken pox the high. The chicken pox is transferred basically at children's age.

Disease by a chicken pox of the pregnant woman on early durations of gestation leads to development of developmental anomaly of a foetus, shortly before the pregnancy termination - to disease of the newborn.

After a chicken pox proof immunity develops. Recurrent diseases a chicken pox happen extremely seldom.

The incubation interval proceeds from 10 till 23 days.

The beginning of a chicken pox the acute. There is a delicacy, the body temperature to 38 With and on a skin of any site of a body including a pilar part of a head, the eruption is found out raises. In the beginning it is specks which soon start to tower a little over level of a skin, pink or red colour with accurate to contours of the roundish form. In some hours on them transparent brilliant blisters from 1 to 5 mm diameter similar to drops of water and surrounded narrow rose-red rim are formed. In 2-3 days blisters dry up and give flat superficial yellow or light brown crusts which later 6-8 days disappear, as a rule, not leaving after itself cicatrixes.

Daily there are new elements of an eruption between old which undergo the same changes. Their general number is enlarged. As a result on a body of the patient simultaneously there are specks, blisters, crusts.

The fever, enanthesis and mucosas proceeds within 5-10 days. Falling away crusts and full purification of a skin from the eruption rests is tightened for some days.