But doctors are sounding the alarm, because they are sure that “windmill parties” are not fun at all, but a harmful idea. “Not all children tolerate chickenpox easily. This disease can cause serious complications – pneumonia, damage to the central nervous system and internal organs, ”recalls Elmira Samitova, Deputy Chief Physician for Infection, Children’s City Clinical Hospital. PER. Bashlyaeva, pediatrician, infectious disease doctor.
Even in childhood, the disease can proceed with complications, including such serious ones as meningitis, encephalitis, purulent skin lesions.
Participation in “chicken pox parties” is especially dangerous for children under one year old – they have a higher risk of complications, and the disease is most severe in the first months after birth.
Like other infections, chickenpox comes in atypical forms. Some of them are fraught with hemorrhages in the skin and mucous membranes, nosebleeds, in the worst cases, formations on internal organs may occur.
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