When children, toddlers, your pain must have been worried about your feelings, in case you are husband and spouse were alone, away from parents or in-laws. In case you recognize the signs of pain experienced gelaja the kid, perhaps this will make you be a small quieter, at least you can take steps with a speedy and exact handling.
Endurance that are still vulnerable and diverse environmental conditions play a kid can be the reason for infectious disease. Pain can not be avoided by somebody.
There's several types of diseases assault only five times, after the kid is ill and recovered, then they will be immune to penyaakit earlier, such as red cheek syndrome. Each time the kid is sick, his immune process will get stronger, so you need not worry.
However, it is excellent in case you read the right advice to help your kid face the bad times, when they contracted the disease. Hopefully this can help you identify common signs of diseases that are often faced by children - and help him recover as well, of work.
Infantum Roseola is a contagious viral disease in children or children are young, which causes rashes and high fever. Roseola usually affects children aged 6 months - four years.
one. Roseola infatum
Cause:
The cause is herpes virus type 6 and 7. The virus is spread through saliva splashes sufferers. The incubation period (time from infection to onset of signs began) is about 5-15 days. This disease usually lasts for one week.
Signs:
Fever arise suddenly, reaching 39.4 to 40.6 ° Celsius and lasts for 3-5 days. Despite high fever, but the kid remained conscious and active. At the beginning of high body temperature, 5-10% of patients experienced febrile seizures (seizures caused by high fever).
It could happen swollen lymph nodes in the back of the head, neck next to the side and behind the ears. Also slightly enlarged spleen. On the fourth day, fever usually begins to fall.
About 30% of children have a rash (redness in the skin), which leveled off and stand out, in the chest and abdomen and sometimes spreads to the face, legs and arms. The rash is not itchy and lasts for several hours to five days.
Treatment:
Keep the children lots of rest. Lower the special child fever with paracetamol (check the recommended age on the packaging).
Complications:
When the kid's body temperature is high, they may experience a febrile seizure (an assault can occur when a viral infection accompanied by high fever).
Parvovirus B19 is a virus that usually, and only on men. About half the adults must have been exposed as feasible in the work of childhood or adolescence.
five. Red Cheek Syndrome (Parvovirus B19)
Signs:
It starts with fever and respiratory distress. Rashes, such as punch, appeared on both cheeks. After to days, the rash spreads to the body line, legs and arms. For several days before the rash appears, the disease is contagious. The kid is usually not painful and the pain will improve within 7-10 days.
Treatment:
Give a special child paracetamol (check the recommended age on the packaging) to reduce fever, or treat the itch. After the kid recovers from parvovirus infection, they usually has immunity and subsequently shielded from infection at a later date.
Prevention:
Complications:
This disease can be problematic when chronic, it can lead to acute anemia. Avoid contact with children infected with parvovirus pregnant females because it may cause miscarriage.
* There is no vaccine or medicine that prevents parvovirus B19 infection.
* Frequent hand washing has been recommended as a practical and lovely to reduce the spread of parvovirus.
* Keep the affected persons from the workplace, kid care, schools or other centers do not tend to prevent the spread of parvovirus B19, because the sufferer can infect before gelegatanya arise.
* Pregnant females need not be told to stay away from the workplace are exposed to Fifth Disease outbreak in connection with the foregoing. Whether in this case must stay away from first place of work is her own decision after mempertimbangkanya with families, physicians and employers.
four. Impetigo
Impetigo consists of types, namely:
Impetigo is a skin infection that often occurs in children, often called pyoderma. Impetigo usually affects children aged 2-5 years. The cause is Staphylococcus aureus or hemolytic Streptococcus as well.
Impetigo krustosa / kontagiosa (its lay terms, honey chicken pox) is a disorder that occurs around the nostrils and mouth. Characteristics, ie skin redness and blisters that quickly break down, leaving a thick yellow scab like honey. When the scab is released, looks abrasion underneath.
Bullous impetigo / vesico bullous (monkey pox or measles fire) that often occurs in the armpits, chest, and back. Characteristics of redness in the skin and the bubbles (such as skin tersundut cigarette until the fire is named smallpox), pus-filled fragile. Smallpox is contagious fire and move from part to another part of the skin. If it occurs in newborns, the infection can spread throughout the body by the bloodstream. This disorder can be accompanied by fever and cause serious infections.
Signs:
You'll discover a pimple, small blisters around the nose and mouth or your kid's ears, which will break up and harden to form a yellow-brown scab. This disease can be contagious when the blisters are crusted discharge and, until days after treatment begins.
Treatment:
Oral antibiotics or antibiotic cream that my doctor prescribed.
Complications:
Side effects are rare, but because the disease is contagious, this situation needs to be addressed immediately.
four. Chickenpox
Is a common disease in children. Chicken pox or chicken pox caused by Varicella zoster virus. This virus assaults the skin by forming sores (lesions) that contains liquid. Infection with this virus usually affects children aged 9 months and older.
Signs:
Chickenpox begins with an uncomfortable condition of the body, a rash and sometimes slightly increased body temperature (above 37 ° Celsius). After a day or, appeared spots - red in color and become blisters filled with water. Usually began to appear in the body, then spreads and dries in to crust, which finally dried up and peeling. Infected kid starts since or days before the rash appears, until all the spots dry up and flake off.
Treatment:
Usually you do not need to bring the kid to the doctor, unless you are uncertain if your kid had chicken pox or not, or your kid is uncomfortable and fussy. Give it lots of fluids and paracetamol special child (check the recommended age on the packaging), to lower his body temperature. Bathing in lukewarm water with a small bicarbonate of soda may help relieve itching.
Or, wipe the spots with calamine lotion; when they awoke at night because of itching, antihistamines can also relieve signs (both obtainable at pharmacies). Wear it loose clothing made of cotton and to temporarily remove her diaper to relieve itching.
Strive not to toddlers infected with other diseases, leading to complications. For example, do not let toddlers play outside with friends and keep him from anything that can make a nodule-bintilnya rupture. If the rash broke out, the chance of bacterial infection to be greater. In case you have this, toddlers ought to be given antibiotics even sometimes necessary inpatient in hospital.
Complications:
In rare cases, chickenpox can lead to encephalitis (brain inflammation). If your kid has chickenpox, make definite they was not close to pregnant females in the first half of pregnancy, and seldom had chickenpox before. Pregnant females who create chickenpox may present a risk of miscarriage or birth defects. Females who do not have immunity and will soon give birth are also in danger, because it could have the child born with chickenpox.
Vaccinations usually diberkan at the age of year upwards. Because at this age children no longer have immunity from their father. Power protection this vaccine can mancapai 97% and can be repeated at 5-year-old child.
Prevention
Prevented by vaccination. To prevent the chance of contracting chicken pox exposure or vaccination can be given. Even if exposed after vaccination, usually not to extreme.
The disease is also called the 100-day cough is of the diseases are highly contagious respiratory infection. The disease is more often affects children, under five years elderly. Whooping cough can also occur in adults, but not dangerous. Become more dangerous if it occurs in children, toddlers, and elderly people.
five. Whooping cough
Signs:
The early signs of whooping cough, flu-like, and after weeks they had began to cough. They could also choke or vomit, and sometimes his breathing sounds when breathing or after coughing. It took weeks until the coughing subsided. This bacterial infection of the air holes clog with mucus and can last about weeks after coughing starts. If your kid is coughing constantly and in a long time, see your doctor, to receive a diagnosis and prevent it from infecting others.
The disease is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis sometimes by. Transmitted through coughing or sneezing of infected patients.
Provide nourishing foods that are basically digested piecemeal. Avoid foods that contain lots of sugar, artificial sweeteners, and fried foods.
Treatment:
Give your kid foods that are simple to swallow and give lots of drinking. Help him to remove phlegm to lay him on your lap and pat his back. The doctor will also prescribe antibiotics.
6. Rubella (Italian Measles)
Complications:
In extreme cases, children may be admitted to hospital for oxygen therapy and rehydration treatment. Sometimes a extreme coughing assault may cause inflammation in the lungs and makes children vulnerable to lung infections. Secondary infections, although rare, can trigger pneumonia and bronchitis. Avoid contact with other children in danger of complications.
Signs:
Rubella begins with the flu followed by a rash with spots, which appear within a day or - initially in the face, then the remainder of the body. Glands at the back of the neck to swell. Rubella virus began to assault before the rash appears, until at least days after the rash disappeared. In recent years, the disease is rare because the kid usually has to get injections against measles, mumps, rubella, at the age of about 12-15 months.
Is similar but distinct measles virus that causes it, assault five times in a lifetime. Although viruses cause different, but rubella and measles (rubeola) have some similarities. Rubella and measles is an infection that causes redness on the sufferer. Rubella are serious diseases that could potentially be a deadly disease that may cause disability and death.
Complications:
Although including a light infection in children, keep the kid from the woman months pregnant at the top or females who are trying to conceive. When your kid to be around pregnant females before you find out the disease, tell him to be able to consult a doctor as soon as feasible. It is necessary to know whether they has had an immune process, because these infections may cause birth defects child.
Treatment:
Give your kid a chilled drink, wear narrow clothes and give it a special child paracetamol (check the recommended age on the packaging) to reduce body temperature.
Prevention
For children under, at the age of 15 months or 12 months (if they does not get immunized against measles), mumps-measles vaccination-rubella (MMR), to prevent high risk of harm to health.
7. Mumps (mumps)
Mumps is an acute viral infectious disease of the salivary glands ( the parotid). Patients can transmit the disease from ± 7 days before the onset of signs until the disease ± 9 days after. Transmission can occur through: saliva spray (droplet infection), cutlery and drink shared. The disease is common in children of primary school age (between 5-9 years). The reason is the mumps virus from the relatives Paramyxoviridae.
Signs:
Obvious signs of mumps, which is swollen and tender glands under the ears and under chin. Your kid will also suffer from fever, headache, dry mouth, difficulty chewing and swallowing. Diseases caused by viruses are usually harmless; infection started in a few days before the glands swell until mengempes back. Lately mumps are rare, because usually children are getting an injection of MMR at the age of about 12-15 months.
Treatment:
Compress the kid with lukewarm water to reduce fever, or provide special child paracetamol (check the recommended age on the packaging) and / or special ibuprofen child (when she is over four months - check the recommended age on the packaging). Give lots of drinking but not fruit juice, since fruit juice can produce saliva, which may cause pain. No need to see a doctor unless your kid complains of stomach aches, pain, or rash multiply.
Complications:
Although rare, mumps can lead to meningitis or encephalitis (brain inflammation). In addition mumps are also in danger (although small) disrupt testicular function in boys.
* Avoid contact with patients.
* Increase endurance.
* Immunization (usually in the kind of MMR immunization).
Prevention
8. Measles (Rubeola, 9-day measles, measles)
Penyakir is contagious in children who are present all year long without a summer. Although infected only five times, do not anticipate that children up to experience complications. Measles or more often called tampek basically transmitted. The virus can live and spread through the air. Measles, which in terms of foreign-called measles, is caused by the measles virus or measles virus or morbili (MV) of the paramyxovirus relatives. Measles disease attacked only five times in a lifetime, when a small time a kid has been exposed to measles then after that they usually won't be hit again.
The disease usually lasts about a week. Measles is highly contagious and potentially serious viral disease, but usually rare because in most cases the kid had received an injection of MMR at age 12-15 months. This highly contagious disease since a few days before the rash appears until days after the rash disappears.
Signs:
Signs of measles begins with a bad chilled, harsh cough, and watery eyes. White patches in the mouth (Koplik spots) is the first sign. Your kid feel uncomfortable, high fever, and it is difficult to see the light. The rash appears on the third or fourth day, usually behind the ear, and then spread to other body parts. The spots will be flushed and the more, but not itchy.
Treatment:
See a doctor. No need to bring the kid to the doctor because it could potentially infect other children. Give lots to drink (warm water can relieve cough) and give a special child paracetamol (check the recommended age on the packaging) to reduce body temperature. Vaseline will protect the skin around the lips. Rinse the crust on the fringe of the eye, and darken the room when the light bothered him. Because the disease is derived from a virus, treatable with antibiotics, but your doctor may give to a secondary infection.
Complications:
Ear infections and lungs, vomiting and diarrhea can occur days after the rash appears. The disease is as well as a small risk of causing pneumonia or ensefasilitis, disorders of the lung or ear.
Prevention
Do measles immunization in children. It is not guaranteed to be 100%, but if to have contracted measles virus, then the condition is not extreme. Immunization can be completed one time. First 9 months of age, this age was selected because the antibodies from the mother's child through the placenta has been declining so take additional antibodies through immunization. In order to better the kid's immune process then repeated measles vaccination at age 15 months with immunization MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella).
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