What are the symptoms of small pox?

Answer 1

Signs and Symptoms of Chicken Pox

Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease that spreads from person to person by direct contact or through the air from an infected person's coughing or sneezing. Touching the fluid from a chickenpox blister can also spread the disease. A person with chickenpox is contagious from 1-2 days before the rash appears until all blisters have formed scabs. This may take 5-10 days. It takes from 10-21 days after contact with an infected person for someone to develop chickenpox.

The chickenpox lesions (blisters) start as a 2-4 mm red papule which develops an irregular outline (rose petal). A thin-walled, clear vesicle (dew drop) develops on top of the area of redness. This "dew drop on a rose petal" lesion is very characteristic for chickenpox. After about 8-12 hours the fluid in the vesicle gets cloudy and the vesicle breaks leaving a crust. The fluid is highly contagious, but once the lesion crusts over, it is not considered contagious. The crust usually falls off after 7 days sometimes leaving a crater-like scar. Although one lesion goes through this complete cycle in about 7 days, another hallmark of chickenpox is the fact that new lesions crop up every day for several days. Therefore, it may take about a week until new lesions stop appearing and existing lesions crust over. Children are not to be sent back to school until all lesions have crusted over. Second infections with chickenpox occur in immunocompetent individuals, but are uncommon. Such second infections are rarely severe. A soundly-based conjecture being carefully assessed in countries with low prevalence of chickenpox due to immunisation, low birth rates, and increased separation is that immunity has been reinforced by subclinical challenges and this is now less common. This is more dangerous with shingles. There have been reported cases of repeat infections. Chickenpox is highly contagious and is spread through the air when infected people cough or sneeze, or through physical contact with fluid from lesions on the skin. Zoster, also known as shingles, is a reactivation of chickenpox and may also be a source of the virus for susceptible children and adults. It is not necessary to have physical contact with the infected person for the disease to spread. Those infected can spread chickenpox before they know they have the disease - even before any rash develops. In fact, people with chickenpox can infect others from about 2 days before the rash develops until all the sores have crusted over, usually 4-5 days after the rash starts.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_pox
Very itchy, fever, not very hungry and very uncountable.
Tiredness, loss of appetite, fever, nausea, headache. The most obvious symptom are the pox marks on the skin.

Answer 2

Chicken pox has an incubation period of 10-21 days. This means that you wont have symptoms less than 10 days after exposure nor more than 21 days. Additionally, contagion of chicken pox stops once the actual "breakout" begins. Symptoms vary greatly. Some may experience no symptoms, even being unaware they have or have had chicken pox. Others may experience a general fatigue, cold symptoms, flu-like symptoms, fever, nausea etc.

Children generally experience milder symptoms than adults. If you are an adult and unsure whether you've had chicken pox, have been exposed and are experiencing any of the above symptoms, see your doctor. The effects of chicken pox in adults can have a much more serious impact including pneumonia.

Answer 3

The best-known signs of chickenpox are:

• A red, itchy rash that initially may look like insect bites
• Small, liquid-filled blisters that break open and crust over

The chickenpox rash occurs in three stages. First, there are raised pink or red bumps (papules). These bumps will turn into fluid-filled blisters (vesicles). And, finally, the vesicles will crust over and scab. It's possible that all three of these stages may occur at once.

The rash may be preceded by or accompanied by:

• Fever
• Abdominal pain or loss of appetite
• Mild headache
• General feeling of unease and discomfort (malaise) or irritability
• A dry cough
• Headache

Common sites for the rash include the face, scalp, chest and back. The rash can also spread across your entire body, even into your throat, eyes and vagina. New spots continue to appear for several days. In healthy children, the disease is generally mild.

Answer 4

Fever is generally the first symptoms with the rash starting on the face a day or two later.

Early symptoms - often preceding the rash symptoms

• Aching
• Tiredness
• Headache
• Fever
• Sore throat
• Malaise

  Little red bumps

Symptoms are usually more severe in adults than in children. Expect to have a few uncomfortable days.

Answer 5

1. Is that you keep getting red dots all over you body 2. Is that you have fever 3. If you have itchiness

Answer 6

well you don't feel good and you have lack of energy

Answer 7

probably itchiness

Answer 8

A rash.