Answers about chicken pox

One of the most frequently asked questions about chicken pox is the way that it can be treated at home. As we know chicken pox is a contagious infection of the body that causes very itchy blisters. If it’s treated well this disease will lead to no complications. The few symptoms caused by chicken pox are fever but especially itching skin.

If the patients won’t try to stop scratching the blisters may lead to other infections. That’s why doctors recommend calamine lotion or even natural remedies such as oatmeal baths to reveal the itching. Against fever doctors prescribe medicine such as paracetamol. It is not indicated, especially for children to take aspirin to relieve fever because the liver or the brain may be affected.

A treatment for chicken pox is not always necessary. If the patient is isolated in a cold room this infection may disappear within a week. Warm places can cause an even harder to take itchiness. If the infection develops into a more serious one treatment is highly recommended. Doctors are able to prescribe it, and they usually prescribe acyclovir, the specific treatment for this kind of infection. This treatment is supposed to be administrated within a day before the chicken pox rash. Read more

Hepatitis A – How You Get it and What it Does to Your Body

Definition of Hepatitis

Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver, which is caused by viruses, medications and toxic agents. Currently, at least five (5) forms of viral hepatitis are recognized which in this article we will learn about Hepatitis A, how it spreads and how to prevent infection.

How hepatitis spreads

Hepatitis A (HAV) is spread primarily by oral contact with feces of an infected person (oral-fecal contact), including contaminated food or water sources, and any sexual contact, especially oral-anal sex.

Hepatitis A easily spreads among young children in kindergartens and day cares as many cannot wash their own hands and are in diapers and since children normally have no symptoms, no one may know that they might be infected.

On rare occasions hepatitis A has been spread through blood transfusion, using blood products or sharing personal tools and equipments specially sharing needles or other injecting equipment which is contaminated with hepatitis A infected blood.

Transmission by blood rarely happens because the virus cannot stay present for long. As it enters the blood onset of infection occurs. Read more