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Chicken pox fact sheet
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Chicken pox is generally known as the children' s disease. Adults can catch chicken pox as well, but only the ones that have not head chicken pox when they were children. Doctors refer to chicken pox as varicella, which is a very contagious medical condition. If you have contact with a person that has chicken pox, it...
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What could chicken pox lead to?
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Chicken pox is a contagious disease that can affect people of any age. It is a benign infection with the virus called varicella, but it can lead to serious complications. Depending especially on the age of its patients, chicken pox can mean a serious health problem for the people that acquire it.
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Chicken-pox and pregnancy
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Many of the pregnant women can be at a certain moment exposed to a person infected with chicken-pox. Although the thought of the bad consequences it might have on the child is frightening, the actual problems do not seem to be so serious at all. About 80-90 % of the pregnant ladies are protected from the virus due to...
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Symptoms for the infections with varicella-zoster virus
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The virus varicella-zoster is known to produce more infecto-contagious conditions such as chicken-pox, shingles and herpes. The incubation period for the virus varies from 10 to 21 days before the actual characteristic rash appears. The main symptoms of the infection are fever, headaches, swollen lymph nodes and...
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Chicken-pox and corticosteroids
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Chicken-pox is known as a mild childhood infection and people often pay no great attention on its importance. Today, all children are vaccinated against the virus causing it due to the serious complications it can produce and due to the high fever and general weakness it causes to the person infected. The condition is...
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