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- How dermatologists treat
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- Is it really acne?
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- Insider secrets
- What is psoriasis
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Reduce summertime rosacea flare-ups
The sun, heat, and humidity can all trigger rosacea and lead to flare-ups.
Find out how you can enjoy summer while reducing flare-ups.
JAK inhibitors: A newer type of medication
JAK inhibitors are helping patients with alopecia areata, eczema/atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, and vitiligo. Here’s what you need to know.
Everyday care
-
Skin care basics
-
Skin care secrets
-
Injured skin
-
Itchy skin
-
Sun protection
-
Hair & scalp care
-
Nail care secrets
- Basic skin care
- Dry, oily skin
- Hair removal
- Tattoos and piercings
- Anti-aging skin care
- For your face
- For your skin routine
- Preventing skin problems
- Bites & stings
- Burns, cuts, & other wounds
- Itch relief
- Poison ivy, oak & sumac
- Rashes
- Shade, clothing, and sunscreen
- Sun damage and your skin
- Aprenda a proteger su piel del sol
- Your hair
- Your scalp
- Nail care basics
- Manicures & pedicures
Featured
Practice Safe Sun
Everyone’s at risk for skin cancer.
These dermatologists’ tips tell you how to protect your skin.
Relieve uncontrollably itchy skin
Find out what may be causing the itch and what can bring relief.
Darker Skin Tones
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Skin care secrets
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Hair care
-
Hair loss
-
Diseases & Conditions
- Acne
- Dark spots
- Dry skin
- Light spots
- Razor bumps
- Caring for Black hair
- Scalp psoriasis
- Weaves & extensions
- Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia
- Frontal fibrosing alopecia
- Hairstyles that pull can cause hair loss
- Acanthosis nigricans
- Acne keloidalis nuchae
- Hidradenitis suppurativa
- Keloid scars
- Lupus and your skin
- Sarcoidosis and your skin
- Skin cancer
- Vitiligo
- More diseases & conditions
Featured
Fade dark spots
Find out why dark spots appear and what can fade them.
Untreatable razor bumps or acne?
If you have what feels like razor bumps or acne on the back of your neck or scalp, you may have acne keloidalis nuchae. Find out what can help.
Cosmetic treatments
-
Your safety
-
Age spots & dark marks
-
Cellulite & fat removal
-
Hair removal
-
Scars & stretch marks
-
Wrinkles
-
Younger-looking skin
Featured
Laser hair removal
You can expect permanent results in all but one area.
Do you know which one?
Scar treatment
If you want to diminish a noticeable scar, know these 10 things before having laser treatment.
Botox
It can smooth out deep wrinkles and lines, but the results aren’t permanent. Here’s how long botox tends to last.
Public health programs
-
Skin cancer awareness
-
Free skin cancer screenings
-
Kids’ camp
-
Good Skin Knowledge
-
Shade Structure grants
-
Skin Cancer, Take a Hike!™
-
Awareness campaigns
-
Flyers & posters
-
Get involved
- Lesson plans and activities
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Featured
Free materials to help raise skin cancer awareness
Use these professionally produced online infographics, posters, and videos to help others find and prevent skin cancer.
Dermatologist-approved lesson plans, activities you can use
Free to everyone, these materials teach young people about common skin conditions, which can prevent misunderstanding and bullying.
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Find a dermatologist
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What is a dermatologist?
-
FAAD: What it means
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How to select a dermatologist
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Your digital health
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Dermatologists team up to improve patient care
- Finding accurate health information
- Health apps
- Wearable medical devices
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- Protect your information
Featured
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You can search by location, condition, and procedure to find the dermatologist that’s right for you.
What is a dermatologist?
A dermatologist is a medical doctor who specializes in treating the skin, hair, and nails. Dermatologists care for people of all ages.
Rubella in children and adults: symptoms, methods of treatment
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Rubella
Rubella is an acute viral disease predominantly of childhood. A typical manifestation: a pink-red rash that appears first on the face, and then spreads throughout the body within a few hours.
The susceptibility of children to rubella is high. Usually, children under the age of 6 months have innate immunity received from their mother, but if the child does not have specific antibodies, he can get sick even in the first months of life.
Rubella most often affects children aged 2 to 9 years.
Immunity after the transferred rubella is persistent, lifelong.
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Causes of rubella
Rubella is transmitted by airborne droplets. Although the virus is considered non-persistent, contact transmission of the disease (for example, through children’s toys) is also possible.
The incubation period for rubella is from 11 to 24 days (in most cases – from 16 to 20 days). The patient is contagious already a week before the rash appears. After the rash, the risk of infection persists for another 5-7 days.
Another option for transmission of infection is during pregnancy, from mother to fetus. With such congenital rubella, the virus is secreted for a long time – within 1.5-2 years after birth (with sputum, urine, feces).
Rubella risk
The main danger of the disease lies in its effect on the fetus in the early stages of pregnancy.
Up to 11 weeks, the probability of infection of the fetus upon contact with the source of infection is 90%. The consequences can be serious: various pathologies and fetal death. Therefore, rubella is included in the number of ToRCH infections (a group of infections that pose a particular danger to the fetus and the health of the unborn child).
Symptoms of rubella
The main symptoms of rubella are:
Rash
Rubella is manifested primarily by a rash. The rubella rash looks like small pink-red spots of a round or oval shape.
In children, the rash lasts 2-4, occasionally 5-7 days, then disappears – without pigmentation and peeling.
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Swollen lymph nodes
There is enlargement of the lymph nodes, especially those located on the back of the head and back of the neck.
Catarrhal phenomena
Sometimes in children with rubella, catarrhal phenomena are observed: a slight runny nose, sore throat, dry cough.
Symptoms of rubella in adults
In adults, rubella is much more severe: headache, general weakness, fever (up to 38-39 ° C), muscles hurt. The disease can affect the joints (primarily the small joints of the hands).
Methods for diagnosing rubella
Do not assume that you or your child is already immune because you have experienced symptoms that fit the description of rubella. Other viral diseases can have similar symptoms. Absolute certainty can only be given by a blood test for specific antibodies.
Serological blood test
Serological analysis detects the presence of antibodies to the rubella virus in the blood. Such an analysis can be done separately, or you can use the “Diagnostics of ToRCH infections” profile.
More about the diagnostic method
To accurately diagnose the disease, make an appointment with the specialists of the Family Doctor network.
Rubella treatments
If symptoms appear that suggest rubella, the child should be shown to the pediatrician, and the adult should consult a general practitioner.
Symptomatic treatment
Rubella is treated with bed rest and symptomatic treatment. The patient should receive enough vitamins (in the form of vitamin preparations or in kind).
Vaccination
Vaccination is a simple and effective way to avoid the danger of getting sick already in adulthood. It is especially important to exclude the threat of rubella disease to the expectant mother. The prevention of this disease is so significant that rubella vaccination is included in the National and Regional immunization schedules.
The vaccine is administered subcutaneously or intramuscularly. Vaccination is carried out at the age of 12 months, repeated immunization (revaccination) – at 6 years. For girls who have not had rubella and have not previously been vaccinated, the vaccine is administered at the age of 18 to 25 years. Specific immunity is provided in almost 100% of cases. It develops 15-20 days after vaccination and persists for more than 20 years.
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when can a common rash be a signal of a sexually transmitted disease?
A rash on the body can be evidence of many diseases – fungus, bacterial lesions, scabies, demodicosis, and other, not the most pleasant diseases, are accompanied by a rash.
The cause of the rash is usually determined by laboratory testing, which includes blood tests and skin scrapings. Often, a doctor may prescribe a dermatoscopy procedure (visual examination of a skin area with a microscope) and diascopy (examination using a special medical spatula).
However, the occurrence of a rash in adults can often indicate the presence of sexually transmitted diseases that require prompt treatment.
In this article, we will tell you how to recognize a dangerous rash on the body and distinguish it from a harmless rash that can be quickly cured by a dermatologist.
Rash on the body with sexually transmitted diseases: how is it different from the usual rash?
A common body rash with measles, rubella, typhoid, chickenpox, or allergies might look something like this:
Rash can also be divided into different categories based on its appearance. Below are the types of rash and the diseases in which it appears.
Blisters – they often appear with insect bites, nettle burns, toxicoderma. The blisters usually go away on their own and can be quickly treated with products purchased at your local pharmacy.
Spots are usually a localized change in skin color such as redness or discoloration.
Spots can appear with dermatitis, typhoid or vitiligo.
Nodules – they differ from skin color, are raised and structural, measure up to 3 centimeters, and usually appear from diseases such as eczema, lichen planus, psoriasis or dermatitis.
Purpura are skin hemorrhages that occur due to poor blood clotting, vitamin C deficiency, or leukemia.
Erythrema is a raised, bright red rash that occurs when you are allergic to drugs, foods, or other irritants.
Blisters are the most annoying type of rash. They just indicate the presence of herpes, chickenpox, eczema, lichen or dermatitis.
What does an STD rash look like?
Each sexually transmitted disease manifests itself differently. That is why in this article we will describe the most obvious types of rash that occurs with the most famous sexually transmitted diseases.
With syphilis, the rash has abundant, nodular or pustular elements, which are grouped in separate areas of the skin in a certain form – rings, arches or garlands.
They are located more often on the scalp, trunk, palms and soles. However, it is important not to confuse such a rash with the one that occurs with psoriasis, lichen or seborrhea. A dermatovenereologist will help with this, which should be contacted immediately after the discovery of such a rash.
With gonococcal infection, skin rashes are located at the affected joints and have a small diameter from 1 to 5 millimeters. They usually start out as small spots and then turn into pustules.
Herpes also manifests itself with a rash – vesicles, which then turn into erosion, appear on the human genitals, with their appearance, you should contact a dermatovenereologist as soon as possible.
To summarize
As a rule, a rash that indicates the presence of sexually transmitted diseases is often accompanied by itching, redness in the vulva and flows into erosion and ulceration. However, if you notice it at an early stage and consult a doctor, there may not be such consequences.