Scarlet Fever
Disease information
Scarlet Fever
These microorganisms mainly live in regions with climates temperings and the months on
winter
and
spring
.
The bacterium penetrates to the organism by the
respiratory
tract, nose or mouth and is located in the
pharynx
from where it invades regional weaves and lymphatic ganglia.
The
disease
is contagious and lasts approximately 7 days. I
infect
can occur from
a
day before appearing some symptom and to two or three weeks after the spots disappear, mainly if is some complication, as they can be slight
infections
of the ear and the paranasales sines.
When exantema, is to say the reddening of the skin begins to yield, appears
a
fine descamación in the skin, on
each
one of pápulas.
It produces three types of toxins, the one of ellases person in
charge
of the manifestations and annoyances and this also it causes that the
disease
can be repeated until in several occasions. If it is not controlled on time, the toxin propagates quickly by all the organism.
If
a
boy been
has
exposed to this type of
infection
to have been in
contact
with other carrying or ill members of the
family
or near friends of
scarlet
fever, it is necessary to carry out the culture of secretions of the throat, although the symptoms not yet have appeared.
IMPORTANT the content of this note is informative and it does not replace the medical diagnosis, reason why we do not become people in
charge
by the use of the information.
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