When is scarlet fever OK

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Scarlet fever is a common disease in children, and it is a very serious skin disease. Let's talk about the recovery time of scarlet fever.

When is scarlet fever OK

First, scarlet fever is an acute respiratory infectious disease caused by group a hemolytic streptococcus infection. The clinical features were fever, angina, diffuse bright red skin rash and obvious desquamation. A small number of patients have heart, kidney and joint damage due to allergic reaction. The disease is seasonal, but the incidence rate is highest in spring and winter, especially for children. Most of them are 5-15 years old.

Then the incubation period was 2-5 days, as little as 1 day and as much as 7 days. Acute onset, sudden high fever, headache, sore throat, nausea, vomiting, etc. If the bacteria invade from the pharynx, the tonsil will be red and swollen, there may be grayish white easily wiped out exudative membrane, congestion of soft palate mucosa, punctate erythema and scattered petechiae.

Finally, in the early stage of the disease, swelling and hypertrophy of the tongue papilla can be seen before the eruption, protruding from the white tongue coating, which is called "white bayberry tongue". Three to four days later, the white tongue coating fell off, the color of the tongue was bright red, and the tongue papilla was red and swollen. It looked like red bayberry, which was called "red bayberry tongue", accompanied by submandibular lymph node enlargement.

matters needing attention

People with scarlet fever should not eat stimulating food in life, but drink more water and keep good sleep habits. They should eat light diet and liquid food with high calorie and protein. Patients with angina may have pain when eating, so it is necessary to take soft food or liquid diet.