"Children's" diseases are familiar to parents. They inspire them with certain fears, but the kids are quite calm - they tolerate them mainly without difficulty, such diseases occur once.
However, these ailments are quite insidious. People far from medicine do not even suspect how dangerous the so-called “childhood” diseases can be. Among them, by the way, is chickenpox, which many consider to be something frivolous, like a runny nose or an occasional sneeze.
Sources and leakage
If you have some knowledge, you can really take care of how not to get chickenpox. First of all, it is caused by a virus from the herpes group. Anyone who has ever had this “fever” on their lips knows how unpleasant it can be. Not only that, chickenpox is highly contagious. If a child with such a disease arrives in the kindergarten (until it manifests itself externally, but already begins to spread), the whole group, or even the whole kindergarten, will fall ill within a week. The good news is that children generally carry chickenpox relatively easily. Bad: for newborns, pregnant women and unborn children, just adults, it is dangerous. And sometimes fatal.
Spread
Fortunately, chickenpox is spread predominantly by airborne droplets. Is it possible to catch chickenpox somehow? The second (and much less common way) of infection is to touch the skin of an already sick person: infection occurs through vesicles formed by chickenpox. There are no other ways.
Preventive measures
Doctors believe that it is better to get sick with childhood diseases at the appropriate age. So no need to think about how not to get chickenpox; the epidemiological situation around his offspring should be monitored. But provoking untimely illnesses is also not worth it: you see a child painted with greenery while walking with his own baby - go around. Will have time to get sick more than expected.
But if the child is not alone in the family, and even one of the adults in childhood did not know the "charms" of this smallpox, it is worthwhile to take care of how not to get chickenpox for someone for whom it can be dangerous. The main method is still quarantine. But to completely isolate the baby from parents and siblings is too cruel. If other children in the family are old enough, you can try to teach them not to touch the bubbles on the body of a relative and wear a medical bandage in his presence.
Extreme cases
However, there are people who absolutely can not get sick with smallpox. These include HIV-infected, cancer patients (especially hematological), those who have recently survived chemotherapy, large families (if the mother carries another child, and did not have chickenpox in childhood, or there are children younger than six months old). In such situations, the problem of not getting chickenpox is akin to the issue of life and death. And here the vaccine will help. Russian doctors have at their disposal Varilriks or Okavaks. Behind them - only in the clinic, the funds do not go into free sale.
However, there are restrictions: pregnant women are not given a vaccine. If the epidemiological situation of chickenpox in the environment is acute, expectant mothers can only support therapy, designed to facilitate the course of the disease and minimize possible harm to the fetus. Usually it comes down to "Acyclovir" and "Cycloferon" - the doctor will give all the appointments.
Than smallpox threatens adults
A very insidious disease is chickenpox. How not to get infected an adult who was not ill with it in childhood is still worth considering. In most cases, a mature person does not tolerate it well. Rashes appear not only on the skin, but also on the mucous membranes, and with ulcers in the mouth and from hunger, die for a short time. And there are sores in more painful and uncomfortable places. Not only that, the older the person, the worse the consequences: after thirty years, the fifth can die from chickenpox. Scars sometimes remain on the skin.
She can come back
And do not relax much for those who already had smallpox. When asked whether it is possible to get chickenpox a second time, doctors answer what is possible. In explicit form, this rarely happens and only with people whose immunity is seriously reduced (such people are at risk, and they are trying to get the vaccine, as already described).
However, the smallpox virus does not disappear from the ill organism, but seems to be hiding in it. So the question is: “Is it possible to get chickenpox a second time?” - not too correctly worded. You do not need to get infected again, the former patient already has a virus. And it can manifest itself again with a decrease in immunity (after the flu, for example) in the form of shingles. Also a very sad prospect.
An interesting fact: chickenpox is very dangerous for babies, it can cause damage to both the brain and any internal organs. However, if children under the age of three months have suffered this disease, they have had it in a mild form. And for such grown babies, the question will never be raised: "Is it possible to get chickenpox again?" They do not have such returns!
In a word, do not faint when you hear that smallpox patients have appeared in your immediate environment. But you should not treat her scornfully. If you did not suffer from chickenpox in childhood and do not want to experience these sensations in your adult life, take measures. At a minimum - take care of immunity. And in no case should you be discouraged and panicked!