The fastest way to treat chickenpox

  Chickenpox is a different threat to children and adults. Children with normal immunity can heal on their own, and rarely combine with encephalitis, pneumonia, and myelitis, etc. Even with complications most can be cured after treatment. The natural course of chickenpox is 2 to 3 weeks, only a very small number of people combined with pneumonia or encephalitis, the course of the disease can be prolonged, timely treatment most of them can also be cured. In adults and infants, the disease is often more severe, with a dense rash that can last up to 3 weeks.  How can chickenpox be treated fastest? Is it true that using antiviral medication is faster than not using medication? Although acyclovir is effective in the treatment of chickenpox, especially in reducing the number of severe chickenpox rashes and shortening the duration of fever, there is still some controversy about acyclovir in the treatment of healthy children, mainly because chickenpox itself is a self-limiting disease, and most of them have a self-limiting clinical course, and the chance of complications is relatively low; therefore, for chickenpox in healthy children under 13 years of age Therefore, antiviral treatment is not recommended for varicella in healthy children under 13 years of age, and symptomatic supportive treatment is immediate. Early (within 24 hours) initiation of acyclovir antiviral therapy is recommended for immunocompromised children, children over 13 years of age, and adults.  It has also been suggested that acyclovir does not reduce complications, that patients do not have increased hospitalization rates due to complications, and that a Canadian Academy of Pediatrics study of varicella patients in school children treated with acyclovir did not reduce the number of days missed from school.  Therefore, the general mental status, the severity of systemic symptoms, the number of rashes and the size of herpes, the severity of fever, and the presence of complications should be analyzed in order to decide whether to use acyclovir or not, and whether to combine it with gammaglobulin and other treatments in order to effectively treat the disease without drug abuse.