Complications after chickenpox in children

The disease, which usually decks have time to recover before adolescence, can carry a lot of dangers. Over the years, viruses have mutated and today complications occur more often. Consider what complications after chickenpox can occur in children.

Consequences of chicken pox in children

  1. Scars after chickenpox are the most frequent echoes of the disease. A child or a teenager can not tolerate itching and runs to scratch the inflamed vesicles. As a result, scars are formed after chickenpox, which can sometimes be very difficult to remove.
  2. As a result of combing, an infection is often introduced and after the treatment begins the fight against skin infections. One of the complications after chickenpox in children is shingles. The fact is that after a full recovery the virus does not go anywhere, but sleeps up to a convenient opportunity and after a time (even a couple of years) it will manifest itself in the form of depriving.
  3. Unfortunately, the effects of chickenpox in children may be invisible to the eye, but quite dangerous for the body. For example, the virus affects the cornea of ​​the eye and as a result, loss of vision may occur.
  4. The most dangerous among the complications after chickenpox in children is the case when the infection diverges through the body with the bloodstream. As a result, a purulent inflammation of the joints begins. Also common are arthritis, nephritis, various kidney diseases, and pneumonia.
  5. After recovery, there are cases of complication of varicella encephalitis. As a rule, the inflammation of the brain begins immediately with the formation of characteristic crusts. In this case, there is weakness, weakness in the muscles, dizziness or impaired coordination.
  6. Complications of chickenpox in adolescents are associated with age and often are the consequences of spreading the infection. After treatment, adolescents often have pneumonia, myocarditis, nephritis, hepatitis, keratitis and sepsis.