What Are the Most Common Chickenpox Complications?
Many people progress through a bout of chickenpox with discomfort, but with few complications. This doesn’t mean chickenpox complications can’t occur and there are many of them, ranging from commonly occurring to rare. Complications often depend on age or physical health of the person with the illness. Anyone who is immunosuppressed, newborns, or older teens, and adults are likely to have more serious illness. Also, one complication occurs years after people have had this virus. Anyone with chickenpox is potentially vulnerable to bacterial infection of one or more of the chickenpox lesions. This the most common chickenpox complication by all measures. Generally, staph or strep bacteria infects the open sores, causing symptoms like failure to heal and leakage of pus. There is the potential that infection of a sore could lead to blood infection, so oral antibiotic treatment is usually initiated. Less common is development of blood infection or sepsis, which can be extremely serious, and
