Chicken pox transferred in the adult period, is very different from the one that suffer in childhood, the pathogen behaves much more aggressively, causing an increase in body temperature to 40 ° C, painful swallowing, purulent rashes all over the body. For adult patients, typical and dangerous complications of this disease.

How many times a person will develop chickenpox, depends on its immunity, in most cases, the only time in my life, as developed the antibodies form a protective barrier before re-infection.


The main symptom of chickenpox is a rash, which soon becomes fluid filled blisters. These bubbles cause severe itching, but combing or scoreability them extremely undesirable, as after healing can be unsightly scars.

Chickenpox in pregnant women


Chickenpox in pregnant women in rare cases, can cause abnormal development of the fetus, up to a spontaneous abortion. That is why the treatment of such patients should be under careful supervision of a specialist. Anomalies in a newborn whose mother had chickenpox, are observed in approximately one case out of a hundred.
When intrauterine infection of the fetus are possible abnormalities as valvular heart disease and the visual system, cerebral palsy, mental and physical developmental delays.


Most at risk are those children whose mothers fell ill just a few days before delivery. In this case, the defeat of the internal organs of a newborn happens in almost 15% of cases. If such a situation occurred, the mother and the baby as fast as you can enter the serum antibodies. Then the baby is isolated both from mother and from other children until complete recovery of both.

Treatment of chickenpox in adults


The treatment of the disease in adults is similar to childhood chicken pox. Blisters should be lubricated zelenkoj or fukortsin solution. This contributes to their rapid healing. Observe bed rest with plenty of fluids. Sit at home, limit your contact with other people, because the disease belongs to the category of infectious. Shoot down the temperature of the available antipyretic agents, if it rises above 38оС.
To relieve itching you can take the treatment one pills morning and evening.


How long will the disease depends on many factors, but if there were no complications, the symptoms should greatly diminish by the end of the first week, blisters will finally come only after 2-3 weeks subject to all instructions of the attending physician.

In case of complications and comorbidities, the severity of disease may significantly increase. If you have skin inflammation, vetranary jade vetryanaya pneumonia or joint damage, you will most likely propose to be treated in hospital.