Is chickenpox contagious to adults?

When carefully helping children take care of themselves and prevent chickenpox, many parents have a question: can chickenpox in children be transmitted to adults? In fact, this issue requires a comprehensive understanding, because chickenpox can be transmitted through some channels, but if adults have strong immune systems, then chickenpox will not affect their health.

In fact, chickenpox is contagious in itself, so even adults need to pay attention to prevention when taking care of children. Only in this way can they better prevent the adverse effects of chickenpox on themselves. Adults who take care of children must pay attention to these issues.

Chickenpox can be spread through direct contact, droplets, and air. Chickenpox can be transmitted to adults. In addition to avoiding crowded public places and opening windows to keep indoor air clean, vaccination against chickenpox is the most economical and effective way to prevent the occurrence of chickenpox. The best way to prevent an infectious disease is through three means: isolation of the source of infection, individual passive immunity, and active immunity.

1. Passive immunization: Use varicella zoster immune globulin within 96 hours after exposure to varicella or herpes zoster, but the protective effect is limited, and this drug is currently unavailable in China.

2. Active immunization: Vaccination against varicella is the most economical and effective means to prevent the occurrence of varicella. Vaccination against varicella has at least the following benefits: protecting children from the suffering of varicella, thereby avoiding the direct (outpatient, hospitalization or drug treatment) and indirect (parents taking leave to accompany) economic losses caused by varicella, reducing the number of children who need to stop school due to varicella; reducing the incidence and severity of herpes zoster

3. Isolation of chickenpox patients: isolate chickenpox or herpes zoster patients from the time the rash appears until the herpes is completely scabbed. However, since chickenpox patients are contagious 2 days before the rash appears, isolation cannot prevent the spread of the virus before the rash appears. Therefore, during the epidemic season, do not take children to crowded public places, open windows for ventilation to keep the indoor air clean, etc., but it cannot completely prevent children from being exposed to the varicella-zoster virus.

The above is some introduction about whether rice can be transmitted to adults. I hope that after these introductions, adults can pay more attention to these issues and do a good job of preventive health care in daily life. Only in this way can we reduce the infectiousness of chickenpox and ensure our own health.