What should people with chickenpox avoid to quickly recover from the disease?

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Chickenpox is a particularly dangerous infectious disease and causes many complications for the patient, so what should people with chickenpox eat and avoid?

1. Signs to recognize chickenpox

Chickenpox is a disease caused by the Varicella Zoster virus, which usually appears in late winter-spring and lasts into summer. Accordingly, patients with chickenpox have very clear symptoms, specifically as follows:
Fatigue Anorexia Fever Fever 24 - 48 hours after infection By the 3rd day of infection, on the patient started At first, the rash appears, the first stage is small burning acne, after a few hours, it can be burned on the skin. These blisters appear very quickly and are 1-3mm in size. Especially if infected with bacteria, these blisters will be opaque because they contain pus.
Complications of chickenpox can cause skin infections and can leave scars, causing cosmetic loss on many parts of the body. Therefore, when having chickenpox, patients often wonder what to avoid with chickenpox and what to eat to avoid scarring.

2. What to abstain from chickenpox to protect health?


When having chickenpox, the patient should use healthy foods, low in protein, foods in liquid form and easy to digest such as green bean porridge, tapioca porridge combined with will, young bamboo leaves, brown rice porridge , asparagus, bananas, green beans, red beans, potatoes, carrots,... or vegetables such as spinach, purslane, bitter gourd, cabbage.
In addition to food, people with chickenpox also need to avoid hot and spicy spices such as garlic, chili, ginger, pepper, curry, mustard,... and meats such as dog meat, goat meat, etc. seafood such as shrimp, oysters, snails, clams. Some fruits such as lychee, longan, plum, mango, jackfruit are also foods that people with chickenpox should avoid. In particular, people with chickenpox should abstain from cinnamon because this medicine has great heat, pure yang, and has a warming effect on fire, so it is very dangerous for patients with chickenpox.
Because chickenpox is a highly contagious disease, when you get sick, you should limit going to crowded places to avoid cross-contamination, and avoid sharing items with others and not scratching. chickenpox nodules.

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Người mắc bệnh thủy đậu nên kiêng các gia vị nóng

3. What should you eat if you have chickenpox to quickly recover from the disease?


In addition to the list of foods to avoid, the question: "What should I eat if I have chickenpox?" also get a lot of attention. Accordingly, when infected with chickenpox, the patient should consume foods rich in vitamin C such as oranges, lemons, grapefruit, kiwi, pears, watermelons, and cucumbers. In fact, the amount of vitamin C present in these fruits has the effect of increasing resistance, fighting infections, reproducing collagen production, and preventing concave scars caused by chickenpox.
People with chickenpox can also use a number of medicinal dishes that have the effect of supporting the treatment of the disease such as: red bean porridge, pork green bean porridge, heat-clearing soups and drinks. such as purslane, honeysuckle, and licorice three bean juice.
After chickenpox is treated and completely cured, the wounds begin to appear on young skin, the patient should use fresh turmeric to treat scars. How to do this: Wash turmeric and gently scrape the outer shell, pound and squeeze the juice, the patient applies turmeric juice around the scars every day before going to bed, leave it overnight and wash it off in the morning. The next day, continue to persistently apply other layers until completely cured.
Chickenpox is an infectious disease that can cause many dangerous complications, especially for children and pregnant women. Complications of chickenpox can cause dermatitis due to bacterial superinfection, chickenpox nodules have pus, after healing can leave scars, very difficult to recover. In case the patient is severely malnourished, the chickenpox nodules can cause extremely dangerous necrosis. In addition, chickenpox can also cause diseases such as otitis media, pneumonia, meningitis, which are very dangerous, even fatal if the patient is not treated and given emergency promptly. Especially, for pregnant women in the first 3 months of pregnancy and about to give birth, chickenpox during pregnancy can be passed from mother to fetus, putting the baby at risk of congenital chickenpox syndrome, creating so scars under the skin, small head, cataracts, growth retardation, low weight, short limbs.
Pregnant women and children are those whose immune systems are less active than usual, so the risk of chickenpox infection increases. However, the disease can be prevented with the chickenpox vaccine. Because of the complications chickenpox can cause, doctors also recommend that, in addition to pregnant women and children, everyone should be vaccinated with this vaccine.

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Tiêm phòng vắc - xin là biện pháp tốt nhất để phòng ngừa bệnh thủy đậu
Vinmec International General Hospital has been deploying immunization services with a variety of vaccines for different audiences, from infants, young children, adults, and women before and during pregnancy. . Including the chickenpox vaccine. The advantages of vaccination at Vinmec include:
Customers will be fully examined and screened for physical and health problems, advice on preventive vaccines and injection regimens, how to follow Monitor and take care of children after vaccination before giving vaccination according to the latest recommendations of the Ministry of Health & World Health Organization. A team of experienced and professional doctors and nurses, understand children's psychology and apply effective pain relief methods for children during the vaccination process. When children are vaccinated at Vinmec, they will be monitored for 30 minutes after the injection and reassessed their health before leaving. In the vaccination system of Vinmec, there is always an emergency team ready to coordinate with the vaccination department to handle cases of anaphylaxis, respiratory failure - circulatory arrest, ensuring timely handling when there is an incident. happen. Vaccination room at Vinmec is airy, with a play area, helping children feel comfortable as if they are walking and have a good mentality before and after vaccination. Vaccines are imported and stored in a modern cold storage system, with a cold chain that meets GSP standards, keeping vaccines in the best conditions to ensure quality. Customers will receive a reminder message before the injection date and the vaccination information is synchronized with the national vaccination information system. To register for vaccination, please contact directly to Vinmec Health System nationwide or make an appointment HERE.
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