Chicken pox. The cause of the chicken pox is the virus varicella. Males and females are both able to get the virus, but children ages five to six are the most likely to be infected.

 after about three days. In order it starts at the trunk (the

 legs), spreads to the face, and then to the extremities. The

 infected person will get to temperatures of one hundred and

 two degrees Fahrenheit and that will last throughout the

 breakout.

The rash is quite itchy and becomes dry, crusted,

 and falls off in a week.   More bumps will come about every

 three days. Scars will be present if they get infected, badly

 scratched or removed. A physician is not usually not needed to make a

 diagnosis but after the symptoms appear it is still best to

 make sure it is the chicken pox and not something much

 worse. The physician can easily make a diagnosis by

 checking the basic symptoms. Chicken pox is controlled by keeping the infected

 person and anything the infected person has come in

 contact with away from any people who have never

 become infected. There is not really a treatment, just

 medicine so that the rash does not itch. The disease blows

 over by itself.The disease cannot really be prevented because almost

 everybody gets it. The only precautions a person can take

 is to stay out of contact with people that are currently

 infected and anything they have in contact with.The outcome is usually that...

Children have many chances of becoming sick or infected with different diseases. Chicken pox, at one time, was probably one of the main problems of child illness. Child illnesses are a big deal in the United States, yet chicken pox is not a very big problem today.

 Varicella-Zoster virus, VZV, otherwise known as the common childhood virus chicken pox is a highly contagious virus that once inhaled it enters the lungs and is then carried through the bloodstream to the skin where it causes the typical rash associated with the chicken. Most children will have contacted the virus by the age of fifteen. The majority of those that contract chicken pox will be between age of five and nine, although it is not very common in adults, if contracted their case is usually more severe. Chicken pox is highly contagious and can be spread by airborne particles or droplets that are in exhaled air, and fluid from

blisters or sores.

 The symptoms of chicken pox usually appear within fourteen to sixteen days of exposure of the virus. The symptoms usually consist of flu like symptoms such as fever of up to 102 degrees, weakness, and a rash that will usually appear on the abdomen back or face. The rash is blister like bumps that form over a three to five day period are very itchy and will eventually spread over everywhere on the body. The blister like bumps will begin to burst and the fluid, which if touched can spread the virus, will begin to seep out and eventually the sore dry up and become crusty, this process will often take from seven to ten days.

 There are few treatment plans for the chicken pox virus. In most patients

Although chicken pox is not often life threatening, but with like all viruses, there are sometimes complications that can occur with the chicken pox. The most