Scarlet Fever

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Disease Ontology 12 DOID:8596 ICD9CM 34 034 034.1 MeSH 44 D012541 NCIt 50 C94575

SNOMED-CT 67 154301006 154303009 ICD10 32 A38 EFO 17 EFO_0007477 UMLS 70 C0036285 C0343487

PubMed Health : ⁶² About scarlet fever: Scarlet fever is a bacterial infection that mainly affects children. It usually causes a typical rash, fever and a sore throat. Thanks to antibiotics like penicillin, scarlet fever is easy to treat. Antibiotics can also reduce the time during which children with scarlet fever are contagious. The infection is spread through bacteria-containing droplets and close physical contact. Before the development of penicillin, scarlet fever sometimes led to serious complications. But it’s usually quite a mild illness nowadays. It’s still important to try to stop it from spreading to other people, though. One thing you can do is wash your hands often. Unlike with many other childhood diseases, having had scarlet fever in the past doesn't make you immune to future scarlet fever infections. So people can have it more than once in their lives.

MalaCards based summary : Scarlet Fever, also known as scarlatina, is related to rheumatic fever and mastoiditis. An important gene associated with Scarlet Fever is EDNRA (Endothelin Receptor Type A), and among its related pathways/superpathways is Overview of nanoparticle effects. Affiliated tissues include skin, tongue and t cells, and related phenotypes are cardiovascular system and endocrine/exocrine gland

Disease Ontology : ¹² An upper respiratory tract disease described as an acute contagious disease caused by Group A bacteria of the genus Streptococcus (especially various strains of S. pyogenes) and characterized by inflammation of the nose, throat, and mouth, generalized toxemia, and a red rash.

Wikipedia : ⁷³ Scarlet fever is a disease resulting from a group A streptococcus (group A strep) infection, also known... more...

Scarlet fever is treated with antibiotics – also because that means you will no longer be contagious after 24 hours. They make the symptoms go away a little faster and help to prevent possible complications too. The most commonly used antibiotics for the treatment of scarlet fever are penicillin -based. They are taken two or three times a day for ten days. If someone is allergic to penicillin or it is not well-tolerated, they can take other antibiotics. The possible side effects include nausea , diarrhea and a rash . It’s important to keep taking all the antibiotics even if your symptoms have already gone away. That’s the only way to make sure that all of the germs are killed. Symptoms like a sore throat or fever can be relieved by taking medicine such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen (paracetamol). Other things that may have a soothing effect include sucking throat lozenges, drinking tea or using home remedies such as neck wraps.

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