Chicken pox is a preventable disease with vaccines. Because of the cost factor it is not universally done in India. Those who can afford to put the vaccines. It is ideal since if the child gets it during examination time like XII std, it will be a difficult situation.I have been told in a school, there was a separate exam hall for Chicken pox affected children.So, vaccine popularization is to be done by all the medical personnel.In spite of the vaccine , it can occur and has happened with one of my patients recently.
But it was a milder form and patient recovered quickly. The main problem is when the chicken pox affects an individual as per our Indian custom,it is the goddess wrath and no treatment should be taken is a common belief. Rarely patients are willing to take treatment in spite of treatment is available for more than twenty years.Acyclovir being the sheet anchor of the…
