3 diseases caused by this virus can attack your skin

Skin problems can be caused by various reasons. Starting from genetic factors, allergic reactions, bacterial infections and viral infections. Skin problems due to diseases caused by viruses not only inhibit appearance, but are also easily transmitted.

Therefore, recognizing certain skin diseases caused by viruses and the symptoms that arise from them do not harm us. Let's look at the 3 types below!

3 diseases caused by viruses and can attack the skin

There are 3 types of diseases caused by viruses that can attack your skin. What are the types?
 
1. chicken pox

Chickenpox is caused by the chickenpox virus. This disease often attacks children, but can also often be experienced by adults. Usually adults who experience it are those who have never been infected with chickenpox.

The first symptoms of chickenpox include a rash that causes itching. Then, fluid-filled nodules begin to appear throughout the body. Fever, headaches, and loss of appetite accompany these symptoms.

The incubation period (exposed to the virus until the onset of symptoms) chicken pox is usually 7 to 21 days. A few days before the onset of symptoms, the chickenpox virus can spread to other people. As a result, the affected individual is not expected to make physical contact with others.

Chicken pox is cured with adequate rest, drink plenty of fluids, and relieve symptoms. In about seven days, the pimples on the patient's body will begin to dry, crust, peel, and then heal.

2. Chicken Pox
In the medical world, chicken pox is known as shingles. This disease is caused by the same virus as chicken pox, which is chicken pox.

Chickenpox is perhaps the second most common chickenpox infection. The first infection will cause chickenpox. After chickenpox is cured, the chickenpox virus will remain in the nervous system in an inactive state.

When the chickenpox virus becomes active again, the nodules are very irritating and painful, similar to burns on the surface of the skin, where the nerve region is affected by the virus.

This burning sensation comes from the fact that the virus attacks the nerves that work towards the perception of pain and temperature. The pain can remain for several weeks or months after the disappearance of smallpox symptoms.

Normally, the nodules appear toward the nerves, so they are elongated like a ribbon or snake. Therefore, this disease is also called snake pox.

Older people are susceptible to diseases caused by chickenpox virus. Likewise, people with weak immune function, such as people with HIV and AIDS, people with cancer who are undergoing chemotherapy, or people who use immune-suppressing drugs.

3. Warts and epidermodysplasia verruciforme
Warts are also a disease caused by a virus, human papillomavirus (HPV). This virus consists of several types, so that it can cause various types of warts.

There are several types of HPV that only cause small warts that can disappear by themselves. But there is also HPV which can trigger the growth of many large warts on the hands and feet, called epidermodysplasia verruciforme (EV).

Verruciform epidermodysplasia is a rare disease that attacks people with genetic disorders such as the EVER1 and EVER2 gene mutations on chromosome 17q25, or people with weakened immune systems. Both of these conditions make the body unable to fight HPV infection.

In more than 50% of cases, warts begin to appear in childhood. To be exact, it is between 5 and 11 years old and continues to multiply and become adults.

In Indonesia itself, Dede Koswara, who was later dubbed the "root man" because of his illness, had faced extreme cases.

Foravoid wart transmission, don't lend yourself for personal effects. For example clothes or towels. You are also prohibited from scratching or treating warts. If this bothers you, it's best to cover the wart with a bandage or bandage coated with salicylic acid.

Diseases caused by viruses can also attack the skin. From chicken pox, chicken pox, with warts. Therefore, recognize the early symptoms so that transmission can be prevented and treatment can be done as soon as possible.

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