Paediatric erythema multiforme: not every bullous rash is chickenpox

Lança, Ana; Bernardo, Miguel; Pinto, Sara

doi:10.1136/bcr-2021-246520

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“…Chickenpox can be defined as an extremely contagious disease; which happens as a result of varicella-zoster virus primary infection. 1,2 The chickenpox infection disease course can rarely be more severe than anticipated and spread to involve different organs and causes severe complications. 3 In healthy individuals chickenpox infection can be often a mild, self-limiting illness, described by fever, malaise, and a generalized itchy, and vesicular rash.…”

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Case Report: Account of chickenpox progression over 10 days

Bereda

2022

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Chickenpox is an extremely contagious disease; caused by the varicella-zoster virus primary infection. A 27-year-old adult Black African male health care worker presented with severe headache, intermittent weakness and inability to walk, intermittent nausea, fever, nocturnal polydipsia, shortness of breath, itching, pruritus (intensely pruritic erythematous macules), lesions with pus on the skin, sleep disturbances, and nightmares for two days. The most commonly occurring symptom of chickenpox is a vesicular rash that appears on the scalp, back and front of the neck, face and scapulae, and then disseminates distally to the limbs. In this case report, the patient face, neck and scapulae were the most infected areas of the body and the rest of the body except the legs, hands, genital areas and buttocks, were also highly infected. Acyclovir 800 mg orally, five times a day was given for ten days to cure chickenpox infection because acyclovir inhibits the replication of the varicella zoster virus, and has the ability to eradicate varicella zoster virus and relieve the symptoms more readily.

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Case Report: Account of chickenpox progression over 10 days

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2022

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Paediatric erythema multiforme: not every bullous rash is chickenpox

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Case Report: Account of chickenpox progression over 10 days

Case Report: Account of chickenpox progression over 10 days

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