Similar Burnt Cigarettes, Perhaps Fire Pox

If your child's skin appears reddish spots like burnt cigarettes, maybe it was smallpox fire. Smallpox fire (impetigo) was not as popular as chicken pox. Some call it monkey pox. Smallpox is caused by germs or bacteria and can come suddenly. Personal hygiene is very important factor in the smallpox outbreak of fire.

Although a person exposed to smallpox ever before, according to Dr. Ratna Komala Dewi MKes GDSS, there might be exposed to chickenpox again with smallpox type of fire. Actually if a good body resistance and no excessive amount of germs, skin safe because the skin and natural holes, like the mouth, nose, and rectum, there are various types of germs that live and multiply (multiplication), known as colonization.

"In certain circumstances, eg, decreased endurance, such as in infants, especially premature, this colonization can lead to disease and infection occurs," said Dr. Ratna. Smallpox is caused by fire Staphlyllococcus gram-positive bacteria, especially Staphlycoccus aureus and Streptococcus.

Predisposing factors which facilitate the emergence of smallpox or the fire is less hygiene, immune deficiencies, such as chronic illness, malnutrition, or are there other diseases in the skin that causes disturbed function of skin protection.

"The disease smallpox fire occurred only on layers of skin hides," he said. Usually not accompanied by symptoms of infection in the human body, such as fever, pain, and lethargic.

As with cigarettes burnt

Chickenpox has a characteristic of the fire, which appeared reddish in skin and skin-like bubbles that tersundut cigarettes. Maybe this explains why the fire is called chickenpox. These bubbles on the skin filled with fluid or pus yellowish white and fragile.

Besides easily broken, the fire also smallpox is contagious. Unlike the smallpox transmission of water through the respiratory tract. If the child is exposed to smallpox and then fire cacarnya scratching scratching other body parts healthy, fast parts of the body will be infected.

Hence, children who had chickenpox fire forbidden scratching the infected body part. Carded earlier parts of the body will be injured. If the wound is not treated, will make the skin become infected and rot.

"If it occurs in newborns, the infection can spread throughout the body via the bloodstream. The disorder accompanied by fever and cause serious infection," said a specialist in skin and venereal Hospital Haji Pondok Gede this.

Because of different causes, treatment of chickenpox and smallpox fire is also different. However, there are also similarities between the two, which cause scars if broken. Chickenpox is more severe type of scar.

Given smallpox fire caused by bacteria, handling with antibiotics. Noteworthy is also continuing to maintain hygiene self or herself with good hygiene to avoid contracting smallpox fire.