What is Chicken Pox

Chickenpox – A Highly Contagious Virus

By Health Team at 20 January, 2009, 10:40 pm

Chickenpox is a mild illness in most of the cases. A virus is responsible of it and there is a vaccine against it. It is a highly contagious children disease. Chickenpox is highly contagious; the virus is transmitted in the air from one person to another since the incubation period (the child is already infected [...]

Keep Children Away From Chicken Pox

By Health Team at 20 January, 2009, 10:38 pm

One of the most notorious disease among children for being contagious is chicken pox. Varicella-zoster, also known simply as Varicella, is the virus that causes chicken pox infection. There are many ways by which the virus get transmitted from one person to another. They include airborne transmission, direct contact or droplet transmission. Persons infected with [...]

Chickenpox and Natural Help to Heal

By Health Team at 20 January, 2009, 10:37 pm

Most children contract this childhood disease before age nine. It is caused by a virus and manifests itself as a fever and headache, usually starting between seven to twenty one days after exposure to the virus. Twenty-four to thirty-six hours later, small round “pimples” appear on the face and body. They are filled with fluid [...]

What Causes Chickenpox

By Health Team at 20 January, 2009, 10:36 pm

Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease, caused by a virus which belongs to the herpes family. This virus is known as varicella-zoster virus and also as the Herpes Zoster virus. Not only chickenpox is produced by it but shingles is too. Chickenpox occurs mostly during the end of the winter and the beginning of [...]

What is Chicken Pox?

By Health Team at 20 January, 2009, 10:34 pm

This is a question that many parents need to know the answer of. What is chicken pox? It is something that is life threatening to your child? How do you know what to do when you think your child may have chicken pox? The questions can be numerous because all good parents want to protect [...]