Chicken pox is an air borne disease which spreads through coughing sneezing of patients. It is a virus infection considered as highly contagious. A patient will find blisters all over the surface of his body and some times in throat, nose, oral cavity like internal areas as well. The early symptoms in adolescents and adults are nausea, loss of appetite, aching muscles, and headache. It is also called as "Herpese Zoster". Anyway chicken pox is one of the few viral diseases that has medicines for treatment.The drug used is "Acyclovir" For adults in Sri Lanka, the normal dose is 800mg x 5 times daily x for 5 days
However in pregnancy and in elderly getting chicken pox may increase the risk of developing lung infections (sometimes pneumonia). Therefore they also should be treated with Acyclovir. But for children between 1-10 years, it is not necessary to treat with medicines as they will show minor symptoms. It is better to get immunity naturally coz it will last for a long time. If anybody wishes to take medicines, the treatment should be strated with appearance of the first blister. Because the ultimate goal of taking drugs is to minimize the amount of blisters appearing.
Other than Acyclovir , there is a vaccine called " Varizella Zoster"available that will prevent one from getting chicken pox. It is a live vaccine having two doses. second dose is given after 6 weeks from the first one. Pregnancy should be avoided by females for 3 months after vaccination.
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