Chickenpox easily attacks young children in the cold season

Like many viral diseases, chickenpox usually breaks out at the end of the year. This is also the period of skyrocketing cases of chickenpox, mainly in children.

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Chickenpox (chickenpox) is a systemic disease caused by varicella zoster virus. The disease can be seen in all people, but mostly children 5-9 years old. Severe forms are common in older adults and children under 5 years old.

The disease occurs most from the end of the calendar year until April 3-4, because this is the time of the Winter-Spring season. Cold weather, drizzle, high air humidity are favorable for viruses to proliferate. This is also the time when human resistance, especially young children, is low. In addition, families often have a need to travel, visit and interact with many people at the end of the year, so if someone has chickenpox, the possibility of widespread spread is even higher.

Infected children easily spread disease to friends during the process of living, playing, eating and sharing a nap at daycare, kindergartens, semi-boarding schools. There are many cases of healthy children but suddenly have a fever, tiny blisters on the face after only one day of school. Worried to take me to the hospital, the parents of the new parents knew I had chickenpox.

Chickenpox usually breaks out in young children during the winter-spring delivery period.

Dangerous and contagious, but many parents still believe chickenpox is a common disease or mistaken for typhus in children. Subjective psychology, disregard early vaccination for children, self-treatment at home, adults do not need to get chickenpox vaccine . still exists. Some parents even believe that the more immunized the vaccination is, the better the child will be protected. Only when seeing neighbors children with chickenpox, parents will panic bring their children to vaccination.

The effective and safe way to prevent chickenpox is to vaccinate children at least one month before the season , because the chickenpox vaccine needs 2-3 weeks to work. Children can still get chickenpox before the vaccine can work. In addition, early vaccination also helps parents avoid scarcity of vaccines and crowding at epidemiological centers. Taking the measles epidemic alone in the last week of April 2014, Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute receives more than 700 immunizations each day, while the previous week was only about 120 times a week.

The chickenpox vaccine is given as a dose for children from 12 months to 12 years, 2 doses 4-8 weeks apart for children over 13 years of age or adults.

In addition, parents, grandparents, babysitters also need to prevent themselves from becoming an intermediate source of infection for their children. Common preventive principles are not to hug, hold, or babysit children when they return home from work but have not changed; Do not allow children to eat when they have not cleaned their hands and feet . The family should keep the living environment clean, open the door to keep the air clear and remind children to wash their hands often with soap.