Disease appears in the form of an epidemic every two or three years, and whenever he was a young child was more dangerous. Pulmonary complications are rarely infect adults because they spread among the young, especially in the winter and after recovery is gaining little human immunity pious.
What is the incubation period of measles?
Intended duration of the incubation time that passes from the time of infection and enter the microbe until the onset of symptoms and an incubation period of measles ten days on average.
The means of transmission of the disease (infection routes):
There are microbes in the patient's discharge from the nose, mouth and lungs, eyes, infection occurs in two ways:
1 - direct: if there is a healthy child with the patient in one place.
2 - indirect: it uses the contaminated tools such person (cups, napkins) patient secretions or Besagah.
Symptoms of measles:
1 - a rise in temperature with the secretion of fluids from the nose and eyes.
2 - sneezing, coughing and possibly rash appears inside the mouth since the early days of the disease.
3 - about the third or fourth day a red rash appears behind the ears and the edge of the head and then spreads to the whole body and continue to rise with temperature cough.
Complications of measles:
1 - People influenza and pneumonia
2 - diarrhea
3 - stomatitis
4 - Central purulent inflammation of the ear
Measles prevention methods: There are no effective vaccines for the prevention but no vaccine contains anti-prevention materials for a limited period.
Control methods:
1 - patient discovery and reporting them
2 - isolating patients for a month.
