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If you are pregnant, should need to be wary if the sudden high fever accompanied spots such as small lepuhan on the skin. You most likely exposed to chickenpox. Means you have to have zooster varicella virus. If not treated quickly and precisely, this disease problems. Special to pregnant women, chickenpox can also cause death.
Pregnant women, especially during the first trimester, usually the conditions are weak. Understandably, at this time are usually nausea, vomiting and often do not want to eat that causes the body to decrease resistance. Now, at the time such as this is likely chickenpox can be attacked him.

Chickenpox (= chickenpox), usually attacks children that begins with fever and followed the emergence of juicy red nodule. Out in pimples this new will be lost for 17-24 days.

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Chickenpox virus is easily spread, and with the exception of pregnant women, through the channel napas: nasal fluid, sputum, saliva, and through touch. Even transmission to the fetus can also occur through Hampi. Since the virus to successfully infect someone symptoms arise (incubation period) the duration of 10-12 days and can infect other people around a week since the contract chickenpox virus.

If pregnant women contract chickenpox will increase the risk in the fetus: the death of the fetus or varicella syndrome kongenital form of deformity and nerve so that the baby had severe mental retardasi. It is also the baby was born premature. Even the mother may experience complications such as encephalitis or pneumonia.

Varicella virus is arising as varicella-zooster the nodule fleshy red nodule (in the entire body)

Features characteristic contract Smallpox Water
• fever, spun, headache, no appetite, sore throat accompanied by a dry cough

• appear out in pimples red fleshy, easily broken and spread throughout the body, to the genitals

• depending on the healing power of the body of people, but generally recover 17-24 days

What should be done?
• pregnant women should be examined before the imunitasnya status of pregnant or at least in the first trimester

• prevention with a VZIG injection (Varicella Zooster ImunoGlobulin) or if other antivirus drugs known maternal contact with people with chickenpox

• if it is to have mothers need treatment to prevent the occurrence of complications

• if the contract smallpox towards childbirth until after birth, the baby must immediately get VZIG injection or handling a maximum of doctors who handle the mother and baby

• giving vaccinations to pregnant mothers should be done with extra caution in order not to impact other harmful mother and fetus that dikandung

Unfortunately VZIG only effective vaccine to prevent chickenpox if disuntikkan within 96 hours after exposure to chicken pox cases.

For pregnant women, chickenpox can be dangerous to the health of the mother and fetus in the womb. About 20 percent of the fetus from the mother’s risk of chickenpox sufferer died within five to ten days after born.

If chickenpox attack pregnant women in the first trimester, the baby could be born with low weight or aberration fetus. For example aberration eyes, brain, legs, hands, lungs, bones and jaw off.

If occurred on the second and third trimester, chickenpox generally do not cause congenital aberration. However, the possibility of babies born premature or suffering out in pimples contain water after ten days was born. Prevention can only be done by vaccination.

Skin diseases, it is one of the skin disease that penularannya very quickly, and the emergence of a sudden. The disease most often occurs in children. However, adults can also be affected if the body resistance to decline. Normally, this disease chickenpox occurred during the 17-21 day.

In young people, before the stadium aberration appear on the skin is rarely found. But in children and the greater the likelihood of the emergence and spread of the infection level of chickenpox, which is found in countries that are baeriklim and tropical influenced by the nature of the virus vulnerable to the hot temperatures that high. Humidity in the air, which tends to be high-speed transmission of the virus.

Pregnant women is one of the adults in the group that is vulnerable to this disease, if at the time not read or have not been affected by this disease chickenpox. At the age of 1-3 months pregnancy complications can occur to the fetus a baby, such as miscarriage, stillbirth or even baby syndrome affected congenitial varicella infection in the fetus or the first month of dangerous good enough for the fetus and the mother is. However, prevelensi maternal chickenpox people who get this complication is still low.

In general, the symptoms of the disease is caused by the same disease in general. High heat followed by the emergence of the red-red and then lepuhan arise on the skin. Lepuhan typical form of this is like the dew drop. In small children may suffer fever, which is not too high, so often ignored by parents and considered only as an ordinary flu symptoms. In it, including one of the symptoms of chickenpox.

Other symptoms that accompany the disease chickenpox is the emergence of clear water containing the spot and then changed into a muddy brown, and within 24 hours. But the symptoms that arise in each individual is different. In infants, which is not even a year can be very high fever. The skin will be infected with the bacteria. They can only weep choosy.

Generally, children affected by the disease chickenpox aged 1-5 years. Usually experienced mild fever and can recover within a week. At school age, this disease can recover about 5-7hari.

First trimester pregnant women infected with chickenpox can transmit to the fetus. When the second trimester pregnant women, the virus can cause interference pregnancy. Meanwhile, pregnant women infected with chickenpox during the birth, can even cause death to the mother

Vaccination is the easiest way to prevent the occurrence chickenpox level of success that can be up to 90 percent. If before the age of 13 years children have to get vaccinations, he will not be exposed to chickenpox his lifetime. There is no specific therapy for penyembuhannya. If a fever, let alone medicine for fever.

I have never been exposed to chickenpox, then the resistance will decrease the body are also affected. But if time is small this disease, will be considered immune and do not need to divaksin again. The duration of protection from the vaccine can not be confirmed. But usually, vaccinations are given replay after 4-6 years.

Varicella, or chickenpox because of the herpes virus is easily spread. Classified acute disease caused by a virus varicela zooster. The disease can appear only once a lifetime if kekebalannya fully formed. The disease can descend anyone, male or female, adult or child and does not recognize the season.
Pregnant women groups, including adults, are vulnerable to this disease, when read at the time had not yet experienced it. For pregnant women with pregnancy age 1 to 3 months, it can happen to the fetus infant complications, such as miscarriage, stillbirth or the baby is exposed to congenital varicella syndrome (infection of the fetus in the first quarter of pregnancy), which is quite dangerous for both the fetus and the mother. Although the number of pregnant women and people with chickenpox currently be seen still low (around 2 100 cases).

Treatment and care:
No decisions can be tempted itching and want to scratch would greatly disrupt and not very comfortable Try to do the cold compress on the skin. Another way to spread kalamin liquids, or other antihistamin containing mentol or Phenol.

To reduce the risk of damage from scratch, you should:
* Skin as often as may be washed with soap and water to maintain the cleanliness of hands
* Nails cut short so that when there is no infection digaruk
* Clothes remain dry and clean
* Antibiotikan given medicine or if the case given the weight of the anti-viral drugs asiklovir