Scarlet Fever Pregnancy

Scarlet fever and pregnancy

        For pregnant women is still advisable to avoid as much as possible to be in contact with a person infected with scarlet fever.

Care and tips in scarlet fever pregnancy

• Encourage quiet activities. If it is not necessary for your child to stay in bed all day, he must rest.
• Give him often to drink: water, juice, soup. Avoid too acidic juice (orange, lemonade, grape), which exacerbate the sore throat.
• Give soft food (purees, yogurt, ice cream, etc..) in small quantities, 5 or 6 times a day.
• If the air is dry, moisten the air in his room. Use, preferably, a steam humidifier cold. Avoid humidifiers and vaporizers hot water because of the risk of burning. Clean the unit frequently to prevent its contamination by bacteria or fungi.
• Invite your child to gargle a few times a day with 2.5 ml salt dissolved in a glass of lukewarm water.
• To relieve his pain and fever, give acetaminophen or ibuprofen in accordance with you and within the recommended doses according to age. Do not give ibuprofen to babies under 6 months and never give acetylsalicylic acid to a child or adolescent.

        The incubation period for scarlet fever is 2 to 5 days. The fever that accompanies it often reaches 40 ° C. Scarlet fever is transmitted through droplets of saliva during the incubation periods and fever preceding the onset of symptoms. Highly contagious, the infection occurs mainly in winter, from a child already suffering from scarlet fever or sore throat bacteria.

Scarlet fever review

        Examination of the throat with red sore is associated with lymph node from the angle of the jaw. White at first, the language gradually becomes red. Examination of the skin exanthema with hot, dry and rough. The biological tests show no specific evidence for infection. For example, if in the levy throat, conducted before any antibiotics, Streptococcus is found its presence is not essential for diagnosis, nor sufficient (there are healthy carriers). You can find the removal streptococcus throat (optional). Blood level is increased in white blood cells.

        The danger of the disease comes mainly from the possibility of damaging heart valves (RAA) or kidneys (nephritis), hence the need for early antibiotic treatment (penicillin or macrolide) and research albumin in the urine 15 to 20 days after illness. Rest in bed 15 days, it is lawful to treat preventively entourage. In France the disease is notable . It is a relatively rare infection and it must not be confused with a viral rash (no increase in white blood cells or the removal streptococcus) or allergic (in this case there is no angina).

Scarlet fever pregnancy pictures

        Scarlet fever is also called second disease, because it is the second disease of childhood causing a child exanthema (rash).. Scarlet fever is a rash illness of children caused by a bacterium, streptococcus group A. Scarlet fever usually begins with a sore red, and for children aged 5 to 10 years. It is a disease in children over 3 years and under 12 years and is due to the toxin of a bacterium: Streptococcus A or C. Incubation is 3 to 5 days. The contagion is through droplets of saliva upon the floor for example.

        It is manifested by a sore red with difficult swallowing, fever in 39-40 °, chills, large glands in the neck, headaches, sometimes with abdominal pain and vomiting. It is mainly characterized by a rash on the skin , occurring 2 or 3 days after the onset of angina, starting with the chest, most marked in the folds (groin, elbow)and extending to the entire body except around the mouth. The skin is red, stinging, grainy feel. Towards the 7th day skin flaking into thin flakes, language turns red .