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Scarlet fever is also called Scarlatina is a disease that often appear together with strep throat. The disease is mostly found in children aged 5-15 years is actually easily cured with antibiotics, but sometimes can lead to serious complications in the liver and kidneys and can lead to death.

On the 19th century, the disease was discovered by Theodor Billroth and Louis Pasteur It has been the biggest trigger of child deaths in the United States. Factor of malnutrition in those days, either during in utero and in infancy can cause fever Scarlet grown so severe.

But since the widespread use of antibiotics began to be known, scarlet fever is much rarer continued until severe conditions. Factors other than antibiotics, improved nutritional status in modern humans and the formation of the immune system against bacteria that cause the disease, helped makes more Scarlet fever rare to find, since the 20th century. That is why Scarlet fever had started rare to find.

Cause

Scarlet fever is triggered by the same bacteria that cause strep throat, which is Streptococcus. The difference is in the Scarlet fever, which triggers the fever is not the bacteria but toxic exotoxin released bacteria.

Transmission can occur from person to person through droplets or mucous granules which ejected when sneezing or coughing. The incubation period is necessary since the infection until the appearance of symptoms ranged from 2-4 days.

Symptom

Almost all patients experienced fever Scarlet red rash and sore throat. Other symptoms that often accompany this disease are as follows:

Treatment

Scarlet fever generally will subside within a few days with antibiotics and rest. Children may return to school if already getting antibiotics and declared cured in 24 hours if the fever had not relapsed.