Scarlet Fever Treatment

Scarlet fever treatment

• Without waiting the outcome, the following treatment is prescribed: Penicillin for ten days (amoxicillin are recommended). In case of allergy, use macrolides.
• School children during the first 48 hours must stay in bed.
• People who approached the patient must take precaution.

Scarlet fever allopathic treatment

        The treatment of scarlet fever is based on antibiotics usually penicillin or macrolides in case of allergy which works against streptococcus. The duration of antibiotic treatment will last 10 days and must be followed scrupulously to avoid serious complications and relapses.

The evolution of scarlet fever

        The establishment of early appropriate antibiotic therapy allows a favorable evolution of scarlet fever. The symptoms disappear in a week, pharyngeal symptoms between 2 and 3 weeks and exanthema in 1 month. Complications with antibiotics are very rare but the doctor will monitor as a precaution . The heart, kidneys, joints, and urine of patients are affected. A similar antibiotics (penicillin or macrolides) will be prescribed preventively, for 1 week, for people in contact with the affected child. There is no vaccine against scarlet fever, but when a topic is reached, it becomes immune for life. The most serious complications and often late are the rheumatic fever and heart attacks.

Scarlet fever doctor consultation

        2 days after the red angina occurs in a single thrust, a rash appears due to the spread throughout the body of the toxin . This begins and predominates exanthema folds bending members (groin, elbows, armpits) to the enterohepatic upper chest (the base of the neck) and the lower abdomen. The major feature of this rash is the fact that begins in the chest and then is spreading to the rest of the body (except palms of hands and soles of feet) in forty-eight hours. To the touch, the skin is dry, hot. There is a sign that persists despite treatment with penicillin and this is the language scarlatina. Language during this infectious disease, is first covered with a coating of whitish color and becomes red scarlet. The coating gradually disappears from the periphery to the center of the tongue. This is the sixth day the sign appeared well known to medical students: rasberry language, while the eruption itself has disappeared.

Scarlet fever medical tests

        The sampling is sometimes false negative due to the fact that the strep germ is fragile.

Medical examination

        Diagnosis is made from throat (which is not always necessary given the obvious clinical signs), which shows the presence of hemolytic streptococcus group A .

Evolution of the disease

        Fever fall and exanthema (rash) is replaced by small scales falling (desquamation) throughout the body, and large scales on the hands and feet. The crude form is more common than the classical forms. In this case, the temperature is lower and the early signs less abrupt. The rash is pink rather than red and more elusive as lasting just two to three days. The appearance of the tongue and throat remains the same.

Scarlet fever vaccine

        There is no vaccine against scarlet fever and one can contract the disease more than once in his life.