Home Remedies for Chicken Pox.
Chicken pox is a highly contagious disease, occurring usually in children. It usually affects
children of three to four years of age. In most cases, the older the child, the more severe
the attack.
Chicken pox usually begins with a low grade fever, a mild headache and a feeling of
weakness. A rash appears on the skin on the first day of the disease. This is in the form of
tiny red spots on the skin, mostly on the upper back or chest In more severe cases, a rash
may appear on the face and lower extremities. The papules turn into blisters and finally
become pustules and form scabs, which fall off. They come in successive crops, so that while
some are drying, others are beginning to form. The skin clears after a few days and the child
feels well again. The duration of this disease ranges from ten to twenty-one days but is
usually between fourteen and seventeen days.
Chicken pox is caused by a virus. Many researchers believe that the disease is closely
related to a much more serious condition known as shingles or herpes zoster that affects
adults. The basic cause of the disease, as in most cases of childhood fevers, is however,
persistent wrong feeding of children, which results in diminished defence mechanisms of the
body.