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Introduction: Chickenpox

Chickenpox: Common viral infection. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Chickenpox is available below.

Symptoms of Chickenpox

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Medical Textbooks Online about Chickenpox

Medical Books Excerpts
  • "Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition)"
  • "Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition)"
  • "Handbook of Diseases"
  • "Handbook of Diseases"

Book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Wrongly Diagnosed with Chickenpox?

Misdiagnosis and Chickenpox

Mild worm infections undiagnosed in children: Human worm infestations, esp. threadworm, can be overlooked in some cases, because it may cause only mild or even absent symptoms. Although the most common symptoms are anal itch (or ...read more »

Mesenteric adenitis misdiagnosed as appendicitis in children: Because appendicitis is one of the more feared conditions for a child with abdominal pain, it can be over-diagnosed (it...read more »

Blood pressure cuffs misdiagnose hypertension in children: One known misdiagnosis issue with hyperension, arises in relation to the simple equipment used to test blood pressure. The "cuff"...read more »

Children with migraine often misdiagnosed: A migraine often fails to be correctly diagnosed in pediatric patients. These patients are not the typical migraine sufferers, but migraines can also occur in children. See misdiagnosis of...read more »

Pruritus subjective symptom: Pruritus is one of the most important dermatological symptoms and is usually a symptom of primary skin disease. Since it is a subjective disease diagnostic difficulties arise especially when...read more »

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Causes of Chickenpox

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Treatments for Chickenpox

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Videos for Chickenpox

How Sick Is Your Child

How Sick Is Your ChildIt's inevitable that at some point in your child's life he or she will suffer vomiting and diarrhea. Most often they are nothing to get...

 
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Patient Surveys for Chickenpox

Prognosis for Chickenpox

Prognosis for Chickenpox: While chickenpox is a mild disease for children, adults usually get much sicker. (Source: excerpt from Shots for Safety - Age Page - Health Information: NIA)

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Reseach about Chickenpox

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Clinical Trials for Chickenpox

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Chickenpox include:

See full list of 34 Clinical Trials for Chickenpox

Prevention of Chickenpox

Prevention information for Chickenpox has been compiled from various data sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete. None of these methods guarantee prevention of Chickenpox.

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Statistics for Chickenpox

Types of Chickenpox

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Definitions of Chickenpox:

Highly contagious infectious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus (Herpesvirus 3); usually affects children, is spread by direct contact or respiratory route via droplet nuclei, and is characterized by the appearance on the skin and mucous membranes of successive crops of typical pruritic vesicular lesions that are easily broken and become scabbed; chickenpox is relatively benign in children, but may be complicated by pneumonia and encephalitis in adults. - (Source - Diseases Database)

An acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body - (Source - WordNet 2.1)


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