Related Conditions and Symptoms

• Immunization

Related Medications

• Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NS...
• Vitamin A (Retinol)
• Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)
• Zinc

Rubella Symptoms

Signs and symptoms
... Often the signs and symptoms of rubella are so mild that they''re difficult to notice, especially in children. If signs and symptoms do occur, they generally appear between two and three weeks after e...

Causes
... The cause of rubella is a virus that''s passed from person to person. It can spread when an infected person coughs or sneezes, or it can spread by direct contact with an infected person''s respiratory...

Rubella Prevention

Prevention
... The rubella vaccine is usually given as a combined measles-mumps-rubella inoculation, which contains the safest and most effective form of each vaccine. Doctors recommend that children receive the MMR...

Prevention
... The rubella vaccine is usually given as a combined measles-mumps-rubella inoculation, which contains the safest and most effective form of each vaccine. Doctors recommend that children receive the MMR...

Rubella Treatment

Complications
... Rubella is a mild infection. Once you''ve had the disease, you''re usually permanently immune. In rare cases, rubella can cause an ear infection (otitis media) or inflammation of the brain (encephalit...

Treatment
... No treatment will shorten the course of rubella infection, and symptoms are so mild that treatment usually isn''t necessary. However, doctors often recommend isolation from others — especially p...

Rubella Other

Overview
... Sometimes rubella is known as German measles, but the word "German" in the name of this disease has nothing to do with the country. The name likely comes from the Latin term "germanus" meaning "simila...

Rubella
... Rubella is an acute viral disease that can affect susceptible persons of any age. Although generally a mild rash illness, if contracted in the early months of pregnancy, rubella is associated with a h...