Is Scarlet Fever a more advanced form of Chicken Pox?!
Question: Is Scarlet Fever a more advanced form of Chicken Pox.?
I've had Scarlet Fever twice (one when I was nineteen and again in June of this year - at 24) and both times I was hospitalized since I not only get a rash and a bad fever but I also have seizures when my temperature gets to high (when I was nineteen my fever got up to 103 and in June it was a little over 104; and I generally have a low temperature - it's usually 97.5 - give or take a few) and both time they put me in a room with child with chicken pox (at the hospital where I live your considered a pediatric case until your 25 to cut down on the congestion in the waiting rooms).
So I was just wondering is scarlet fever is a type of chicken pox, or if it's in the same disease category as chicken pox - and if not, why do you think I'd be in the same room as someone who had chicken pox.?
This isn't an overly important question - I was just talking to someone about scarlet fever and was thinking about it.
Thank you.Health Question & Answer
So I was just wondering is scarlet fever is a type of chicken pox, or if it's in the same disease category as chicken pox - and if not, why do you think I'd be in the same room as someone who had chicken pox.?
This isn't an overly important question - I was just talking to someone about scarlet fever and was thinking about it.
Thank you.Health Question & Answer
Answers:
You're a little off on this one. Scarlett fever is an advanced case of strep throat, not chicken pox. I'm sure you heard this before and just couldn't remember which childhood disease was involved, but just remembered that one of them was involved.Health Question & Answer
scarelt fever is a bacterial infection, chicken pox is a viral infection so not even close to same family of diseases.. who knows why ure together.. maybe its an infectious area so dont spread it to others.. maybe it was just chanceHealth Question & Answer
No hun, Scarlett fever is advanced strep throat, which is a staph infection(which is bacterial). Chicken pox is a virus.Health Question & Answer
Two completely different infectious diseases caused by two separate organisms.Health Question & Answer
I do not think so As they thought I had scarlett fever after having the measles at about age 10 Health Question & Answer
This could not have happened in any hospital in the USA -- I surely hope not!
It is standard infection control policy to place persons with chicken pox on "airborne" precautions, which means that they get a private room with negative pressure, and all persons who enter have to wear a mask. It is completely INAPPROPRIATE to put a roommate in with any chickenpox case -- and I cannot believe this would ever happen. If it did, the entire infection control staff would be fired !
Chicken pox is transmitted by the airborne route, so that all persons in the same room as that patient, would get chicken pox just by breathing the same air, if they were not wearing a mask. There is no hospital that would every put you at that risk.
I think it is much more likely that you made a mistake, and the child in the same room as you did not have chicken pox -- it is, in fact, quite a rare disease these days, because since roughly 1994 all children have been vaccinated for this infection. I have myself seen only ONE case of chicken pox in the past 13 years ! I could not have found two children with chicken pox in the past 13 years for you to room with , even if I had wanted to !
I think you made a mistake . But it's not important - nothing for you to worry about.
as other people have noted, chicken pox and scarlet fever are not related in the least.Health Question & Answer
It is standard infection control policy to place persons with chicken pox on "airborne" precautions, which means that they get a private room with negative pressure, and all persons who enter have to wear a mask. It is completely INAPPROPRIATE to put a roommate in with any chickenpox case -- and I cannot believe this would ever happen. If it did, the entire infection control staff would be fired !
Chicken pox is transmitted by the airborne route, so that all persons in the same room as that patient, would get chicken pox just by breathing the same air, if they were not wearing a mask. There is no hospital that would every put you at that risk.
I think it is much more likely that you made a mistake, and the child in the same room as you did not have chicken pox -- it is, in fact, quite a rare disease these days, because since roughly 1994 all children have been vaccinated for this infection. I have myself seen only ONE case of chicken pox in the past 13 years ! I could not have found two children with chicken pox in the past 13 years for you to room with , even if I had wanted to !
I think you made a mistake . But it's not important - nothing for you to worry about.
as other people have noted, chicken pox and scarlet fever are not related in the least.Health Question & Answer