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Chicken Pox Early Symptoms
Chicken pox is usually spread if you end up breathing in droplets sneezed or coughed by a person who is infected with chicken pox. It can take as long as 10 to 21 days before chicken pox early symptoms manifest themselves. However, usually a person will show early symptoms 14 to 16 days after getting exposed to chicken pox.
It has been seen that a person infected with chicken pox can spread the disease to other even before he has all the symptoms of chicken pox. However, the contagious period of chicken pox begins around 2 days before the rash appears and continues until new blisters stop appearing on the body. Once the blisters scab over, the contagious phase of chicken pox is over.
Chicken Pox Early Symptoms
The early symptoms of chicken pox manifest themselves as fever, headache, cold symptoms, abdominal pain and general feeling of being unwell. You may feel these symptoms either one or two days before the rash appears or they appear along with the rash. After the rash first appears, you may have high fever for the first few days.
Chicken pox rash appears a small red bumps and spots on the scalp, shoulders, chest, back and face. This rash is itchy. It is normal to get rash inside the mouth, on the eyelids and in the genital area. The amount of rash varies from person to person. Some might be covered with red bumps while others will have just a few.
When you get the rash initially, they are flat red marks with clear blisters in the center. However, after some time, the blisters burst and become dry scabs which fall off within a span of 2 weeks. In the first 4 to 5 days of chicken pox, new blisters and rash keeps appearing so all the stages of chicken pox rash may happen simultaneously.
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