This process is called desquamation, and lasts about a week or 10 days.
"Measles"
W. C. Rucker
These are the result of a particularly mild character of the epidemy, together with a peculiar condition of the skin, the desquamation of which shows that the poison went to the surface without producing the usual state of inflammation, or the rash peculiar to the disease.
"Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms"
Charles Munde
With some of them, however, the throat only became affected and no desquamation took place, whilst the character of the complaint with the rest was rather mild.
"Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms"
Charles Munde