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How important it is to take shower during adult chicken pox? is it required?
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Beneficial practice: Regular bathing reduces the chance that the blisters of chickenpox will be invaded by bacterial agents. Group a strep, staph & others find the weeping lesions a fertile breeding ground.People are >50x more likely to get flesh eating strep during cpx. Most adults would choose to bathe with these odds but some may not.
Answered 9/28/2016
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