Chickenpox history and symptoms

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History

• Patient with chickenpox presents with the characteristic rash and numerous spread out of lesions.
• Lesions present in different stages of healing in affected sites.
• The lead to the diagnosis would be a history suggestive of exposure to an infected individual between the incubation period of 10-21 days.

Symptoms

Common presenting symptoms of varicella:

• Usually starts as low-grade fever and skin manifestations appear by 1-2 days
• Abdominal pain reported in some children.
• Rash initially appears on the head, trunk and then spreads to the rest of the body
• Intense pruritus
• Headache
• Malaise
• Anorexia
• Cough
• Coryza
• Lethargy
• Loss of appetite