Chicken pox is an acute infectious disease characterized by papular rashes on the skin, less often on the mucous membranes. This disease is very contagious, transmitted by airborne droplets. You can get sick even if you are at a sufficient distance from the carrier, since the virus that causes the development of this disease moves with air currents. That is why such smallpox is popularly called chickenpox.
This disease causes a very persistent immunity, but it is not sterile, since the pathogen remains in the human body and can provoke the development of herpes zoster.
Chickenpox is considered a childhood illness - it rarely gets sick after seventeen years. This is explained by two facts: firstly, the adult body is less susceptible to the pathogen virus; secondly, as a rule, by the time they come of age, everyone has time to get sick with it. This is for the best - at a young age, this infection is much easier to carry.
Interestingly, the practice of “smallpox parties” is common among many parents. When a child becomes ill with someone, all parents living nearby will be notified about this and may come with their children to infect them. This ridiculous, at first glance, action is by no means meaningless - there are almost no complications after chickenpox in children , which cannot be said about adults.
Fortunately, only 10 percent of people get chickenpox in adulthood. If it were otherwise, life would be much more complicated. After all, the consequences of chickenpox in adults are very diverse, but always dangerous. In some cases, even
death is possible
.Many complications after chickenpox in adults are caused by the fact that not only the skin, but also the mucous membrane, as well as the internal organs, are affected. For example, if the disease progresses in the respiratory system, laryngitis, tracheitis, and even pneumonia may develop. Moreover, any problems caused by the chickenpox virus are very difficult to cure. Therefore, they are especially dangerous.
The consequences of chickenpox in adults are various pathologies of the liver and kidneys, including nephritis, hepatitis and abscesses.
Much less dangerous, but also unpleasant are complications from the skin. In the case of weakened immunity, the development of inflammatory-purulent processes is possible, which will necessarily bring a lot of suffering to the patient. So, the consequences of chickenpox in adults can manifest as erysipelas, bullous streptoderma or phlegmon. There may be complications from the musculoskeletal system, including arthritis and myositis.
But still, the most dangerous consequences of chickenpox in adults are disturbances in the functioning of the central and peripheral nervous systems, as well as the heart and blood vessels. Such complications can be fatal, especially if they have caused diseases such as meningitis, paralysis, brain cysts, encephalitis, increased thrombosis, or myocarditis.
Precisely because the consequences of chickenpox in adults can be so sad, it is advisable to get it in childhood. And if this did not succeed - in adulthood, be careful.