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Reye's Syndrome, a deadly disease, strikes swiftly and can attack any child, teen, or adult without warning. All body organs are affected, with the liver and brain suffering most seriously.

While the cause and cure remain unknown, research has established a link between Reye's Syndrome and the use of aspirin and other salicylate containing medications, over the counter products, and topical use products.

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The National Reye's Syndrome Foundation Does Not Condone Chicken Pox Parties!

Chickenpox is a highly contagious illness caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV). It generally begins with conjunctival and catarrhal symptoms and then characteristic spots appearing in two or three waves, mainly on the body and head rather than the hands and becoming itchy raw pockmarks, small open sores which heal mostly without scarring.

Chickenpox has a 10-21 day incubation period and is spread easily through aerosolized droplets from the nasopharynx of ill individuals or through direct contact with secretions from the rash. Following primary infection there is usually lifelong protective immunity from further episodes of chickenpox.

Chickenpox is rarely fatal, although it is generally more severe in adults than in children. Pregnant women and those with a suppressed immune system are at highest risk of serious complications. The most common late complication of chicken pox is shingles, caused by reactivation of the varicella zoster virus decades after the initial episode of chickenpox.

Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease that spreads from person to person by direct contact or through the air from an infected person's coughing or sneezing. Touching the fluid from a chickenpox blister can also spread the disease. A person with chickenpox is contagious from one to five days before the rash appears until all blisters have formed scabs. This may take 5-10 days. It takes from 10-20 days after contact with an infected person for someone to develop chickenpox.

The chicken pox lesions (blisters) start as a two to four millimeter red papule which develops an irregular outline (a rose petal). A thin-walled, clear vesicle (dew drop) develops on top of the area of redness. This "dew drop on a rose petal" lesion is very characteristic for chickenpox. After about 8 to 12 hours the fluid in the vesicle gets cloudy and the vesicle breaks leaving a crust. The fluid is highly contagious, but once the lesion crusts over, it is not considered contagious. The crust usually falls off after seven days sometimes leaving a crater-like scar. Although one lesion goes through this complete cycle in about seven days, another hallmark of chickenpox is the fact that new lesions crop up every day for several days. Therefore it may be a week before new lesions stop appearing and existing lesions crust over. Children are not to be sent back to school until all lesions have crusted over.

Zoster, also known as shingles, is a reactivation of chickenpox and may also be a source of the virus for susceptible children and adults. It is not necessary to have physical contact with the infected person for the disease to spread. Those infected can spread chickenpox before they know they have the disease - even before any rash develops. People with chickenpox, in fact, can infect others from about two days before the rash develops until all the sores have crusted over, usually four or five days after the rash starts.

NEVER GIVE ASPIRIN, or ASPIRIN PRODUCTS to CHILDREN, ESPECIALLY if they have a VIRAL INFECTION!

More Medical Information Links for Chicken Pox:
Wikipedia
Kids Health.org
CDC
Risks of Chicken Pox Parties:
A child will often get 300 to 500 blisters during the infection, but can have up to 1500; these crust over and fall off in one to two weeks.
Varicella can be severe and even fatal in otherwise healthy children (but less than 1 out of every 10,000 cases).
Chickenpox can cause pneumonia (23 out of every 10,000 cases)
Bacterial infections of the blisters (usually impetigo) occur commonly (up to 5% of cases).
Chickenpox is an important risk factor for severe invasive group A streptococcal disease, which can be fatal.
Other complications of varicella include decreased platelets, arthritis, hepatitis, and brain inflammation.
In immunocompromised persons of all ages, varicella may be fatal.
The virus which causes chickenpox remains in the body for life and may reappear as shingles, particularly in the elderly.
A woman who contracts chickenpox in early pregnancy can pass the virus to her fetus, causing abnormalities in 2% of cases.
Measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella are 4 common childhood diseases caused by measles virus, mumps virus, rubella virus, and varicella virus, respectively. These diseases may be associated with serious complications and/or death. For example, measles can be associated with pneumonia and encephalitis; mumps can be associated with aseptic meningitis, deafness, and orchitis; rubella occurring during pregnancy can cause congenital rubella syndrome in the infants of infected mothers; and wild-type varicella can be associated with bacterial superinfection, pneumonia, encephalitis, and Reye's syndrome.


The Foundation's Top Objectives are:

... AWARENESS - to aid in early detection and educate the public and medical communities about the risk involved with using aspirin and other salicylates.

... SERVICE - to provide emotional support and guidance to families experiencing the trauma of Reye's Syndrome.

... RESEARCH - to support investigation into the disease's cause, management, treatment and prevention, as well as study its impact on survivors.


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Know that your donations and memberships allow us to continue spreading Awareness about Reye's Syndrome to new mom's, new medical professionals, caregivers, schools, daycare centers, churches, and immigrants, and to a global population who can now access this website. You make a difference, a life and death difference. -- Thank You.


Tylenol and Ibuprophen do not contain Salicylates and can be used as a fever reducer. When taking any medication we recommend you check with your doctor first.

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