Chicken pox at teenagers

As a rule, as it is called in medicine, people have chicken pox or chicken pox in the childhood. In that case the disease proceeds without special complications and much quicker, and with age its manifestations become heavier and can lead to serious effects. Therefore chicken pox at teenagers has specific symptoms which give to patients a big inconvenience, and becomes frequent the reason of various complications.

Chicken pox symptoms at teenagers

The main difference of teenage chicken pox from this disease at younger age as it was noted, is more severe form of a disease. The virus of chicken pox is transferred in the airborne way generally in places of mass stay of people (schools, movie theaters, pools etc.), and it leads to the fact that the disease at children often passes in large quantities.

The severe form of chicken pox at teenagers is caused, first of all, by active processes of physical and hormonal changes in an organism during this period. They promote increase in sensitivity and vulnerability of an organism that leads to a susceptibility to viruses and reduces resilience to infections. Against the background of the weakened immunity these factors only aggravate serious condition of the patient.

Chicken pox symptoms at teenagers are very similar to ORZ signs:

• Temperature increase;
• Fever;
• Cold;
• Attacks of headaches.

These displays of a disease arise approximately a day before rash on skin which acts as the main symptom of chicken pox at teenagers. It is important to note that the disease becomes infectious much earlier. Skin rashes at patients can be also followed by a severe itch which causes constant desire to scratch blisters. They very quickly extend on all body, but it is impossible to touch, squeeze out or scratch rash at all as there is a big risk of entering of an infection in a wound.

This symptom of chicken pox at teenagers usually affects all skin for 5-7 day of a disease, and within 10 days there is a possibility of repeated rash. Then blisters dry up and become covered by a crust in 10-14 days after an onset of the illness. These crusts remain on skin a few weeks more then gradually disappear, leaving small pinkish spots. A time later such spots decrease in sizes and disappear, as a rule, in itself.

It should be noted that temperature increase to 38-40 degrees is characteristic of peak of formation of skin rashes at chicken pox, and it quite often causes severe intoxication of an organism of the patient. Besides rash is localized also on mucous membranes (in a nose, in language, in the sky, in a bladder, an urethra etc.).

At teenagers it is possible to distinguish the following from additional symptoms of chicken pox:

• Muscular pain and convulsive twitchings of muscles;
• General weakness and slackness of an organism;
• Sleep disorder;
• Increase in lymph nodes;
• Photophobia.

Complications after chicken pox at teenagers

As it was already noted above, complications after chicken pox occur at teenagers much more often than at the small children who caught this virus. It is caused by specific features of an organism at this stage. Therefore the hormonal changes inherent to the period can easily provoke such purulent complications of varicellous rash as:

• Fascitis;
• Pyoderma;
• Phlegmon;
• Abscess.

One more complication after chicken pox at teenagers it is possible to call formation of hems and nevus pigmentosus on site of blisters. Such effects arise because of combing of rash when bacterial infections get to raschesa. It can also provoke such skin defeats as the gangrenous and hemorrhagic phenomena.

Separately it is necessary to tell about complications after chicken pox at the teenagers proceeding in a severe form. Formation of the big blisters filled with liquid, on site which there are ulcers which are difficult giving in to healing is characteristic of them. The gangrenous form of chicken pox occurs at teenagers with the weakened organism. Its symptoms it is possible to call emergence of the blisters which are quickly growing in the sizes with bloody liquid inside. The crust on them after drying happens black to the inflamed fabric at the edges.

The hemorrhagic form of chicken pox is observed at blood coagulation disturbances. Blisters at this disease also contain bloody liquid. As complications of this form skin hemorrhages, bleedings from a nose etc. can act.

Treatment of chicken pox at teenagers

Treatment of chicken pox at teenagers practically does not differ from treatment of this disease at children. First of all, to avoid various complications, it is necessary to abstain from combing of rash in every possible way. For this purpose blisters grease with brilliant green or fukortsiny which reduce feeling of an itch and help them to dry up. Besides, not to bring an infection in wounds, places of formation of rash process antiseptic agents.

At treatment of chicken pox at teenagers quite often use such antiallergic drugs as fenistit also Suprastinum, and also the immunostrengthening means (for example, candles виферон). Often at chicken pox use of antipyretics which are recommended at a temperature over 38 °C is necessary. Doctors advise to refrain from use of aspirin and to use the drugs containing paracetamol. It is safe for health of the teenager and has good antiinflammatory and febrifugal effect.

Effective treatment of chicken pox at teenagers assumes also constant use of liquid, dairy and vegetable products. It is important to know that it is impossible to wet wind rash therefore bathing in the period of a disease strictly is not recommended, except for acceptance of bathtubs with potassium permanganate which help to reduce an itch. In the return case healing of rash will proceed very slowly. Only intimate hygiene is allowed. For simplification of an itch doctors quite often recommend use of Diazolinum.

At chicken pox at teenagers observance of a high bed rest and full isolation as the disease is very infectious is necessary and demands a quarantine.