Chicken pox, or varicella, is an acute, highly contagious disease caused by the varicella zoster virus. It has an incubation period of 10-21 days and is characterized by crops of fluid-filled lesions that appear first on the face and neck, then spread to the trunk and rest of the body. The virus spreads through direct contact with infected individuals or droplets from their respiratory secretions.

1. 8. CHICKEN POX/VARICELLA
MINOR SKIN CONDITIONS

2. It is an acute, infectious, highly communicable
disease characterized by a rash consisting of
crops of lesions.
Incubation period is 10-21 days
DEFINATION

3. It caused by varicella zoster virus
CAUSES OR PREDISPOSING FACTORS

4. Direct contact with infected person
Droplet infection
Fomites
MODE OF TRANSIMISSION

5.  Slight pyrexia, headache, general malaise
 Blisters in the mouth
 Skin rash on the face, neck, trunk then the rest of the body (24hrs)
 macules>papules>vesicles>pustules>scabs
 Rash appears in crops so that all types are seen together
 Itching during the dying up stage of pustules is very irritating
CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

7. Isolate the patient until all the crusts have
separated
Routine nursing care of fever case
Prevent scratching
NURSING CARE