Recently, patients with rubella have been coming in, including pregnant women. What does rubella mean? Rubella is a common respiratory infection caused by the rubella virus. The main clinical manifestations are fever, red papules all over the body, often with sore throat, and enlarged lymph nodes that can be palpated behind the ears, occiput and neck. The main clinical manifestations of rubella are: the patient may have a low or moderate fever, often accompanied by generalized aches and pains, resembling a cold, often with cough, sore throat, runny nose, sneezing, loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea and other manifestations. The rash is usually seen on the first or second day of fever. The rash is initially seen on the face and spreads rapidly throughout the body, covering the entire body within a day, but the palms of the hands and soles of the feet are often free of rash. The rash is a pale red, fine dotted rash, maculopapular rash or papule, about 2-3 mm in diameter. The rash is soft and sparse on the face, extremities and distal areas and resembles measles when partially fused. The rash on the trunk and back can be aggregated and fused into patches, similar to scarlet fever rash, and the rash usually lasts for 3 days to fade, so some people call it “three-day measles”. The rash can be hemorrhagic in individual patients, and is accompanied by a general tendency to bleed. During the rash period, there is often fever, flu-like symptoms, swollen lymph nodes can be palpated behind the ear, behind the occiput, behind the neck, the rash recedes when the body temperature has returned to normal, clinical symptoms also disappeared, and the swollen lymph nodes are slow to subside (about 3 to 4 weeks), the rash subsides without pigmentation. The most worrying thing is rubella infection during pregnancy (especially in the first 3 months of pregnancy), so pregnant women should wear a mask when they go to hospitals or crowded public places, and should wash their hands, face and mouth when they go home to prevent viral infections (such as rubella, measles, chicken pox, mumps, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, etc.), because viral infections during pregnancy often cause fetal miscarriage, stillbirth or malformation. Rubella virus can be transmitted to the fetus via the placenta and can cause miscarriage, stillbirth and fetal malformation, or deafness, cataracts, and congenital glaucoma. Infection with rubella virus during the first 2 months of pregnancy can cause cardiac damage in half of all infants, most commonly arteriovenous ductus arteriosus, atrial septal defect, pulmonary stenosis, tetralogy of Fallot, and mental retardation or autism. Between the time the child grows up and the age of 10-30 years, about 20% of cases have overt or underlying diabetes, so pregnant women should guard against rubella infection and avoid contact with rubella patients. Those who have been exposed can be protected with an intramuscular injection of 20 ml of placental globulin within 5 months of exposure. Pregnant women with confirmed rubella infection in the early stages of pregnancy should generally be terminated. The virus is present in the respiratory secretions of patients or healthy carriers and is transmitted through coughing, sneezing, talking, etc. The virus is present in the feces and urine of rubella patients and can also be transmitted through contaminated food utensils and clothing items. The main treatment for rubella is symptomatic therapy, bed rest during fever, easy to digest food, oral Chinese medicines such as Shuang Huang Lian and Qing Kai Ling can be taken.