What permanent damage can chickenpox cause?

Answer 1

The vast majority of patients have no long-term effects from chickenpox. A few many have a handful of minor scars from the pox.

The most common long-term risk is for shingles (also called herpes zoster) to occur years after infection with chickenpox. Since the virus stays in your body for life, it may cause symptoms later of localized rash, pain, burning, and possibly long-term neuropathy affecting the area where the rash occurred.

Answer 2

Chickenpox is often a mild, self-limited illness that your immune system will clear. In patients with severe disease or other medical conditions that increase the risk of complications, antivirals like acyclovir or valacyclovir may be used to decrease the risk of complications or shorten the duration of illness. Treatment is mostly alleviating the itch with calomine lotion, and ibuprofen if there is mild fever. As a rule, the younger the person is when they get chickenpox, the milder the disease is.

Answer 3

yes, after chicken pox some stretch marks or scars can be left. which can be easily cured.don't worry........u should apply mixture of pure honey and lemon juice... it's very effective......scars will be gud bye.............INSHALLAH

Answer 4

The short-term effects of chickenpox are itchy rash, cough, sneezing, sore throat, and a stuffy or runny nose. Other symptoms include a low-grade fever, backache and headache. Long-term effects are usually no worse than scarring, but complications can occur. Pregnant women who develop chickenpox should be cautious. If chickenpox strikes during pregnancy, a woman runs a risk for delivering a baby with birth defects.

Answer 5

some groups are at risk for developing complications, the most common of which are bacterial infections of the blisters, pneumonia, dehydration, encephalitis, and hepatitis

Answer 6

The chicken-pox virus remains in the body. at some later time it may produce other problems like "shingles", a very troublesome and painful inflamation in the nerves.