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Chickenpox is one of the classic childhood diseases, and one of the most contagious. The affected child or adult may develop hundreds of itchy, fluid-filled blisters that burst and form crusts. Chickenpox is caused by a virus. The virus that causes chickenpox is varicella-zoster, a member of the herpesvirus family. The same virus also causes herpes zoster (shingles) in adults.
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Chickenpox (also called varicella) is a common and extremely infectious childhood disease that also affects adults on occasion. It produces an itchy, blistery rash that typically lasts about a week and is sometimes accompanied by a fever or other symptoms.
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Chickenpox (also called varicella) is a common, extremely infectious, rash-producing childhood disease that also affects adults on occasion. Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus (a member of the herpes virus family), which is spread through the air or by direct contact with an infected person.
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Chickenpox (varicella) is a common and extremely infectious childhood disease that also occasionally affects adults. It produces an itchy, blistery rash that typically lasts about a week and is sometimes accompanied by a fever or other symptoms.
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Highly contagious childhood disease caused by the varicella zoster virus, and for which there is a vaccine to provide immunity. Chicken pox is a highly contagious childhood disease that, until the vaccine became available in the mid-1990s, affected nearly all children under the age of ten years.
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Disease commonly known as chicken pox. Varicella, commonly known as chicken pox, is a highly contagious disease for which a vaccine became available in the 1990s.
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A chronic illness is a disease that has a prolonged course, does not resolve spontaneously, and rarely is completely cured. Typical examples include cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and arthritis.
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Dealing with stress isn’t easy. And being tired or in pain can make stress worse. Learning to control stress does take effort. Yet reducing stress can help you stay healthy.
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Stress can come from any situation or thought that makes you feel frustrated, angry, or anxious. What is stressful to one person is not necessarily stressful to another. Anxiety is a feeling of apprehension or fear. The source of this uneasiness is not always known or recognized, which can add to the distress you feel.
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Stress is defined as an organism ' s total response to environmental demands or pressures. When stress was first studied in the 1950s, the term was used to denote both the causes and the experienced effects of these pressures.
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Knowing the causes of your stress will help you find ways to manage it.
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Ways to manage stress: Get enough sleep, follow a healthy diet and make time for yourself.
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Lower your risk: Control stress. When you’re stressed, your heartbeat speeds up and your blood pressure skyrockets. The next time you feel tension taking over, sit back and look at what’s bothering you.
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Over the course of evolution, the human mind and body have developed means of handling stressful situations. Over the short term, such stress response pathways are highly adaptive, allowing a person to manage his or her resources in order to navigate the crisis; in some cases, however, these processes go awry and result in pathology.
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Definitions Stress is a term that refers to the sum of the physical, mental, and emotional strains or tensions on a person. Feelings of stress in humans result from interactions between persons and their environment that are perceived as straining or exceeding their adaptive capacities and threatening their well-being.
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Stress is an individual ' s physical and mental reaction to environmental demands or pressures. When stress was first studied, the term was used to denote both the causes and the experienced effects of these pressures.
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Anything that brings on feelings of stress is called a stressor. Today, we often face many stressors.
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Pneumonia in an immunocompromised host describes a lung infection that occurs in a person whose ability to fight infection is greatly impaired.
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Discharge Instructions for Immunocompromised PatientsYou have either undergone a procedure or been diagnosed with an illness that has made you "immunocompromised." This means that your immune system is very weak, making it difficult to fight off i...
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