Chickenpox in Adults

Learn how to treat and prevent chickenpox in adults and why it matters. Is chickenpox a more severe disease in adults than in children? What are the potential complications of chickenpox, and how should you deal with them? How to prevent the development of symptoms and complications in a patient exposed to someone who has chickenpox? What about high-risk individuals like immunocompromised persons and pregnant women? Learn about the pros and cons of the different methods of post-exposure prophylaxis for chickenpox. Download the summary of this presentation in PDF: If you want to learn how to recognize life-threatening infections like sepsis and CNS infections as early as possible, I highly recommend you take my free online course! A Clinical Approach to Serious Infections in Adults: What Every Physician Should Know: CHAPTERS: 00:00 Chickenpox in adulthood vs. childhood 00:40 How common is Varicella pneumonia? 01:35 Treatment of chickenpox in adults and teenagers 02:32 Complications of varicella (chickenpox) 05:30 Varicella vaccine for post-exposure prophylaxis 07:07 Varicella-zoster immune globulin 07:43 Antivirals for post-exposure prophylaxis of chickenpox REFERENCES & RECOMMENDED READING: 1. Denny JT, Rocke ZM, McRae VA, Denny JE, Fratzola CH, Ibrar S, et al. Varicella Pneumonia: Case Report and Review of a Potentially Lethal Complication of a Common Disease. J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep. 2018 Dec;6:2324709618770230. 2. Mohsen AH, McKendrick M. Varicella pneumonia in adults. Eur Respir J. 2003 May;21(5):886–91. 3. Lachiewicz AM, Srinivas ML. Varicella-zoster virus post-exposure management and prophylaxis: A review. Prev Med Rep. 2019 Dec;16:101016.