Chicken Pox

Chicken Pox Disease

Chickenpox or chicken pox is not a chicken diseases, but chicken pox is a disease that cause by infection of varicella zoster virus (VZV). It generally starts with a vesicular skin rash, person who get this diseases will feel itchy raw pockmarks, small open sores.

This diseases can spread through people to people by direct contact or by air because coughing or sneezing, also can spread from contact to secretions. Following primary infection there is usually lifelong protective immunity from further episodes of chickenpox. Chickenpox has an incubation period of 10 to 21 days, but rarely fatal and generally more severe in adult people than in children. The most dangerous if chicken pox disease is infected to pregnant women and those with a suppressed immune system are at highest risk of serious complication. Further effect of this disease if late to be treated can cause late complication of chicken pox is shingles.

Avoid from this viruses infection are always give to a pregnancy treat by immunization or vaccination. Women who are immune then will not infected by these viruses. If infection happen during the first of 28 week of gestation, this can cause of fetal varicella syndrome. Further effect to the baby can be underdeveloped toes and fingers and can cause severe anal and bladder malformation. The other effect to the baby that infected by this virus as follows:

• Damage to brain, such as encephalitis, microcephaly, hydrocephaly, aplasia and others.
• Damage of eye, cause of many eye disease such as optic stalk, optic cap, and lens vesicles.
• Damage to body, such as hypoplasia of upper/lower extremities and bladder sphincter dysfunction
• Skin Disorders and skin lesions.