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Chicken Pox

Published on Nov 28, 2015

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Chicken Pox

By: Ian Majerus
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How it Affects You

  • It is a virus.
  • It can be breathed in or caught by contact with another "host"
  • Then it travels htrough your bloodsteam throughout your body.
A virus is a microscopic thing that can only survive in a host organism, and once inside grows vigorously and some can even take over your body.
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What Cells it Affects

  • It mainly affects skin cells by causing a lot of tiny dot like rashes.
  • It also affects some cells in your mouth by causing small small blisters on the roof and side of your mouth and even your tongue.
It can cause some little blisters and rashes that are very irritating and itchy. Any acidic foods or drinks can harm or irritate your mouth further if you consume them, because it gets inside of the layer of skin in your mouth.
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How Your Body Defends

  • Your cells detect a cell that isn't supossed to be there.
  • Then antibodies weaken the cell infiltrating cell.
  • Then if the antibodies work execution cells will come to destroy the cell.
Antibodies are small microscopic organisms that your immune system creates to fight off certain viruses or bacteria that harm or endanger your body.
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Preventing Chicken Pox

  • You can get a vaccine to have your immune system build antibodies.
  • There is a chance to get a mild case of chicken pox with the vaccine but it is almost imposible to get a severe case.
A vaccine is an injection of a weakened virus into your bloodstream so that your immune system can build up antibodies against it, and if you eventually get that virus it will either be weakened or get destroyed by the execution cells.
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Symptoms

  • When you first get it it incubates in your body for about 21 days.
  • It can start to spread the instant you get it so you it can spread easily and is very contagious.
  • After that you get a fever then get lots of little blisters and rashes on your skin.
Chicken pox is very contagious because you can spread it even before you thought you had it. It can get very contagious 2-4 days before you even contract any symptoms of the virus so that you don't know you infected them until they get the symptoms themselves. It also means there is an easy chance for a pandemic or outbreak because there is no easy way to stop it.
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Treatment

  • A prescription Zovirax can shorten the affects of chicken pox.
  • Varzig is another drug that can stop it by taking it 96 hours after getting it, but you notice symptoms 21 days after you contract it.
Prescription drugs can be very deadly if not used in the right way or if you overdose. It can also cause side affects that can affect your body in weird or uncomfortable ways.
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Shingles

  • Shingles is a virus similar to chicken pox.
  • After you get chicken pox the shingles virus lays dormant in your system, it can stay dormant for years.
When something is dormant it means it is like it is dead but can come alive at any time, or something must make it become living by affecting its surrounding environment (temperature, humidity, nutrients). Then when it wakes it can just go on living.
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Shingles Continued

  • After the virus activates it causes a rash or rashes that can be very severe.
  • It is very painful and can appear anywhere on your body and be large.
Shingles is not at all contagious be cause it cannot be spread in any way shape or form. But when someone gets it it can cause constant pain, and the pain can be very very bad, and when it gets irritated it gets a lot worse it can sometimes feel as if your getting stabbed in an entire area of your body. The pain by itself is very severe almost like you are on fire.
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Biblyography

  • "The Immune System." The Immune System. University of Illinois at Chicago, n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2015.
  • "Chickenpox." : Background, Pathophysiology, Etiology. WebMD, n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2015.
  • "Facts about Chickenpox." Paediatrics & Child Health. Pulsus Group Inc, n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2015.

Ian Majerus