Complications of measles

Complications of measles

There are many complications of this disease, and are more likely if the child suffers from immunodeficiency diseases or if he is younger than a year and a half of age or in the case of not taking the scorpion.

The most important of these complications are:

1) bacterial pneumonia

2) otitis media

3) and cerebrospinal inflammation

4) Myocarditis

5) Hepatitis

6) Acute subcutaneous encephalitis

7) and usually occurs in infants under the age of one and a half years after measles.

Measles is a viral infectious disease, transmitted by the respiratory tract , Especially children between 2 and 4 years old, but the incidence of complications after the introduction of measles vaccine, which revolutionized the great disease.