RUBELLA
Disease information
RUBELLA
Rubeola.
It is an epidemic viral
disease
(that produces an eruption) of the
childhood
that can cause in the fetus serious
congenital
malformations if the
mother
suffers it during the
pregnancy
.
For the boy or adult it does not have gravity.
Causes.
Infection
by the virus of the rubeola.
Signs and symptoms.
The
disease
in the boy or adult appears like
a
gripal
syndrome
: general malaise, febrícula or painful fever of little intensity, ganglia to the sides of the neck.
After one to two days it appears an eruption:
spots
red
pale.
little intense.
small.
three days last about.
one begins in the head and it progresses towards the feet, being more intense in the trunk.
it is clarified without descamación.
It does not produce special picor nor annoyances.
The
congenital
defects that can appear and that they conform the
congenital
syndrome
of rubeola, are:
Defects of the eye, with pérdidad of the vision and blindness.
Defects in the oidos ones, with loss of hearing.
Defects of the heart.
Cerebral
defects late mental and sometimes
cerebral
paralysis.
The
children
learn very slow to walk and to make tasks simple.
They can have low
weight
when being born, diarrea,
neumonía
or
meningitis
.
Sometimes they appear spots
red
-
purple
in face and body.
Factors of risk.
Situations that they facilitate I
infect
of the gestantes:
Agglomerations.
Work with
children
.
Prevention.
The active immunization or vaccination before the
pregnancy
is totally effective. As minimum it must take place three months before the
pregnancy
, to be able to assure his effectiveness.
At the moment it is including in the scholastic vacunales calendars, administering
itself
to the
children
before menarquía (the first
menstruation
, on the 12 to 14 years, according to independent community)
The vaccination is made by means of virus alive attenuated, reason why it is recommended that in the following week to the same one the
contact
with pregnant women is avoided, like added measurement of security.
Diagnosis and treatment.
The clinical diagnosis is difficult by the little intensity and duration of the eruption. It is possible to be known if
a
person or
has
undergone it, and therefore is immune or no, by means of
a
blood analysis.
Effective treatment does not exist. The treatment of the
Congenital
Syndrome
of the Rubeola will be the one of its complications.
Complications.
I
infect
of the fetus with the consequent
Congenital
Syndrome
of the Rubeola.
Prognosis.
The rubeola cures without
problems
in four days.
The
Congenital
Syndrome
of the Rubeola is definitive.
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