Are there different types of scarlet fever, or is it just not considered as seri!
Question: When I had scarlet fever back in the '50's I was taken by ambulence to an isolation hospital. I spent 3 months there and never saw anyone except a nurse, one at a time, and had an occasional visit by a doctor. After returning home it was another month before being allowed back to school.
Nowadays, children are treated at home, not kept away from other family members, and back at school in a couple of weeks.
Answers: When I had scarlet fever back in the '50's I was taken by ambulence to an isolation hospital. I spent 3 months there and never saw anyone except a nurse, one at a time, and had an occasional visit by a doctor. After returning home it was another month before being allowed back to school.
Nowadays, children are treated at home, not kept away from other family members, and back at school in a couple of weeks.
There is only the one type (same as you had in the 50's)
It was a serious disease then and as you say, you were isolated
There is no such thing nowadays as an isolation hospital!
I trained as a fever nurse in one of those!
Sulphonamides were used to treat it then, but now they use penicillin.
Look at this site to get the info you need.
http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/2306907...
they have discovered allot in the last 40yrs! however now other diseases are poping up more and they have no treatment for some! but yes red flags flied for scarlet fever back in the day! it still can be serious when fever cannot be brought down!
Scarlet fever is caused by the same bacteria that causes strep throat. Most of the time today, scarlet fever can be diagnosed before it becomes life-threatening. Today, we have much better antibiotics than were available 50 years ago. It is still "potentially" as serious because it can kill just as readily if left untreated, but it is not "actually" as serious since the treatment is now as easy as a pill four times a day for 10 days. The isolation was to keep others from getting a contagious life-threatening illness. We still should keep our kids away from others when they are ill, but most of us do not take the full responsibility to do so.
No, it's the same scarlet fever. We know so much more about it. It was once considered a common and deadly illness but these days, it's rare and if it's caught in the early stages, it's quite manageable and treatable.
I think modern anti-biotics have seen off the threat.
It's probably still a real danger to children in 3rd world countries where medicines aren't so readily available.
It's treated with modern antibiotics now. I had it a few years ago and was given Erythromycin I think. It went away almost immediately. I was very sick before I got the antibiotics though.