Can you wash your hair if you have chicken pox on your head?

  It is not recommended to wash your hair if you have chicken pox on your head in the acute stage.  The form of chickenpox is a contagious disease caused by varicella-zoster virus infection, which is mostly manifested as a rash, papules, herpes and crusty rash. If the head of the chicken pox in the acute stage, the rubbing action when washing hair is easy to make chicken pox broken, broken skin mucous membrane layer will be exposed, easy to break the skin to produce irritation, easy to secondary bacterial infection. In addition, shampoo will be used to wash your hair, the chemical substances contained in it also has a certain stimulating effect on chicken pox, easily causing infection and prolonging the healing time.  Do not wash your hair during the chicken pox period, but wash your hair with water after the chicken pox has completely scabbed over and dried, and then consider using shampoo to wash your hair after you have fully recovered.