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Tips on How to Prevent Chicken Pox From Spreading

Posted on | May 7, 2010 | 2 Comments

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Chicken pox is usually spread by breathing in droplets coughed, sneezed, or breathed out by an infected person. Between exposure to the disease and the appearance of symptoms, there is an incubation period begins about 10 to 21 days. Usually a person develops the symptoms 14 to 16 days after exposure.

A person can spread the disease to others before he or she even has any symptoms of chicken pox. The contagious period begins about 2 days before the rash appears and continues until new sores stop appearing. Once all the sores have turned to scabs, the contagious period is over.

If you’ve been exposed to the said disease, there is nothing you can do during the incubation period to prevent the disease if you aren’t already immune to it. Pregnant women and high-risk people may be candidates for a shot to prevent or lessen its severity.

It is rare for a person to have more than once case of such viral disease in a lifetime. But, although a case of the pox causes immunity to the virus, the virus may lay quiet and later reactivated in some adults. This rash, called shingles or herpes zoster, is more common in people over 60 years old. It also happens to people with weakened immune system. Shingles rarely occurs from direct exposure to a person with chicken pox.

Now here are some tips on how to prevent chicken pox from further spreading to others:

1. Avoid contact with others during the contagious period – until the sores have turned into scabs. That means anyone with the disease should not be at work, school or day care while contagious. If other people may have been exposed to it, be sure to call and tell them to watch for spots about 2 weeks from the date of exposure.

2. It’s nearly impossible to prevent the spread of chicken pox within a household. Some studies find that nine times out of ten siblings of a chicken pox patient will get the disease.

3. If you need to take the patient to the doctor’s office, call ahead and tell the staff that you suspect chicken pox so arrangements can be made to avoid spreading the disease to other clinic patients. In most cases, patients don’t need to come to the clinic. The condition can be successfully handled at home, with calls to the doctor’s office for advice.

Call your doctor if you get infected during pregnancy. Pregnant women are more at risk for a type of pneumonia.

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