Why do chickenpox have a really bad effect on adults and why are they mild for children?
Answer:
First of all, chicken pox is not mild in every child. Some children are very ill with it, with high fevers and several hundred lesions. Lesions are susceptible to become infected with staph or strep germs.
Several viruses in the herpes-zoster family, including the ones that cause mono and chicken pox, affect older children and adults worse that children for some reason. Adults are more likely to get a chicken pox pneumonia that can be very serious and even cause death. Chicken pox is also serious in pregnant women.
We are seeing less chicken pox these days because many children receive the vaccine. Adults with no history of chicken pox should ask their doctors about getting the vaccine, too. Also, if an adult does come down with chicken pox, he or she can take an antiviral medication called acyclovir, or similar antivirals. These must be taken early after onset to be effective. In my opinion, getting the vaccine prior to illness is a safer option.
It's a mystery..0.o
Generally the discomforts along with itchiness are the bad things among children.
Those who had not contacted chicken pox at younger age have the virus reained dormant in their nerves which can reactivate later and have local eruptions of shingles(Herpes Zoster ).
The worst thing in late infection is the so called post herpetic neuralgia whis is believed as the result after nerve fibers are damaged during a case of Herpes Zoster (also known as Shingles). Damaged fibers cannot send electrical signals from the skin to the brain as they normally do causing excruciating pain that may persist or recur in the area where shingles first occurred.
Well, among young adults and children, the effects could just be the same but it appears to be more in young adults as the alteration in body image would count a lot (imagine how someone would look with those eruptions and probably scars after). While young children actually doesn't care how they looked as long as they are comforted.
I think it is immunologic..
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