Childhood infections in adults

Abstract

Children's infections always have a severe course in adults, they can threaten the health and life of an adult. The most dangerous infectious diseases in adults are chicken pox, whooping cough, measles, rubella, infectious erythema, meningococcal infection, mononucleosis and Coxsackie virus.

Almost any childhood infection can occur in an adult, and most often it will be severe. Many people do not remember or do not have accurate data about whether they had this infection in childhood or not. Also, most adults do not have a record of their last vaccination. It also complicates the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of childhood infectious diseases in adults.