Chickenpox - A Basic Overview, Causes and Remedies

Chickenpox is a highly contagious condition usually caused by an infection with the varicella-zoster virus. As a matter of fact, chickenpox is considered extremely dangerous, especially when contracted by adults. This disease is quite common for children under the age of 14. The good news is that anyone who had this disease once, he will be immune to it for the rest of his life. Chicken pox usually occurs in early spring and late winter. Since the chickenpox vaccine was introduced in 1995 in the United States (in Japan and Korea it was released in 1988), over 90% of all children didn’t contract the disease anymore.

Common Causes

The virus that causes chicken pox can spread through the air and may also appear at the skin level, when you enter in contact with the blisters of someone infected with chickenpox. Once you become infected, the virus incubates for 15 days until the first rash appears on the skin. During the incubation period, you won’t experience any symptoms. However, after two weeks, you will notice the first symptoms: mild headache, fatigue, fever, joint and muscle aches.

Chickenpox is rarely fatal, even if there are some cases of pregnant women and men with a suppressed immune system who experienced some serious complications or even death. The most common complication of this condition is herpes zoster (commonly known as shingles). Herpes zoster is a dangerous viral disease, especially because it can break out on the skin years or even decades after a chickenpox infection. In order to avoid these complications, it’s imperative to follow some home remedies for chickenpox.

Home Remedies

There are many things you can do in order to cure this disease. Firstly, drink a catnip tea sweetened with molasses. Secondly, you can make you own tea using herbs like ginger, burdock root, St. John’s wort, pau d’arco and Echinacea. Moreover, you should drink plenty of water, because dehydration will increase the effects of chickenpox.

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The following articles details the most common causes of chickenpox and contain more information about how to treat this condition.

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