Chickenpox - Causes - Treatment - Exercises

Chickenpox - Causes - Treatment - Exercises

The pathogen of chickenpox is the varicella zoster virus (VZV)

The chickenpox (varicella / varicella) is a disease caused by droplet infection caused by the varicella zoster virus. Other names for chickenpox are waterpox, pointed leaves, tip leaves, wild leaves, especially in Austria wet leaves, sheeps and sheep leaves. The name chickenpox comes from the high contagiousness of these viruses, which are also transmitted in the air over several meters. Chickenpox - Causes - Treatment - Exercises The chickenpox is to be distinguished from the smallpox (Variola), a dangerous infectious disease caused by viruses of the genus Orthopoxvirus.

The chickenpox affects predominantly children in the preschool age and lead to a lifelong immunity in the majority of the infected persons, which is why they are also one of the childhood diseases. Symptoms are mainly fever and a characteristic, itchy skin rash with water-clear blisters. Chickenpox - Causes - Treatment - Exercises There may be complications in the form of cerebral infections, pneumonia or bacterial superinfections of the skin.

Since it is a virus infection, the treatment is usually symptomatic. Chickenpox - Causes - Treatment - Exercises In special cases - for example in immunosuppressed patients - a virostatic agent can be used. After the symptoms have subsided, varicella viruses remain in the spinal or cerebral nerve ganglia and can be reactivated from here in the form of a girdle (herpes zoster).

For prophylaxis there is a vaccination, which has been generally recommended in Germany since July 2004. Chickenpox - Causes - Treatment - Exercises Since August 2006 also a multiple vaccine against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox is available. Postex positionsprophylaxis with passive vaccination or with virostatics is also possible.