“The most terrible disease in my life”: adults who had measles shared their impressions

“I have never been so seriously ill,” is perhaps the main phrase of patients who have ever had measles, the outbreak of which continues in Russia. Adults endure this “childhood infection” much harder than children, many develop complications. The “cleansing” immunization against measles that has begun in the country so far concerns only risk groups, but doctors recommend that everyone who does not have antibodies to this infection take care of themselves on their own.

“I was ill at the age of 38,” Olga tells her story on the forum of those who have been ill. – Now my life is divided into “before measles” and “after measles”, as the immunity after the illness has gone down to zero.

If earlier I did not know what a cold is, then after measles I get sick almost every month. As a result, after 8 years another oncological diagnosis was made. The measles itself was very hard to bear, for two weeks she lay in the infectious diseases hospital under a dropper. Take care of your health!”

As 25-year-old Andrei from Moscow told MK, he had measles three years ago – and it was the worst infection in his life.

“It all started quite innocently, with a rise in temperature, I thought I caught an ordinary virus. But the temperature did not subside, and one day I did not recognize myself in the mirror – my whole face was sprinkled. He called the doctor three times, including an ambulance, but none of them suspected measles. When I called an ambulance, my whole body was in a rash, but the doctors only offered to rub me with vodka to bring down the temperature.

As a result, after another three days, I ended up in an isolated box of an infectious diseases hospital, where I spent two weeks. Recovered six months – then one thing, then another. Unfortunately, I had a medical exemption from the vaccine, so there was no immunity.”

38-year-old Leonid from St. Petersburg was less fortunate: he got infected from his four-year-old daughter, who suffered the disease quite easily. “I was on the verge of life and death, spent 9 days in intensive care and even said goodbye to my family. But got out. Measles left me with serious hearing problems as a memory of myself. ”

“I’m sick now,” says Maxim. – I am 39 years old. Today is the first day when the temperature does not rise above 37.5 – just happiness. The previous days are like a blur.

“I’m 36, I got it from my daughter,” Peter shares his story. – It’s the seventh day of hell. I’ve never been so sick. I was not vaccinated as a child, although my mother is a doctor.”

“I got sick at the age of 24,” Elena recalls. – The condition was terrible, she was lying in a bed, it was difficult to get to the toilet, the temperature was up to 41, it was hard to breathe, then a complication developed in the bronchi and eyes. Since then, my eyesight has fallen, I wear glasses.

“I got sick at 18, but I remember this horror as now, because there was no more nightmarish illness in my life,” Kirill shares his story. – Feelings were terrible. I didn’t want to eat at all. Basically, I just drank … I lost ten kilos. Then he could not go outside for a long time – his eyes were blinded. Infected two people at the entrance.

“My illness was painful, I was in the hospital for a month,” says Ilya. Pricked a lot of droppers, antibiotics. For several days I did not sleep at all, then I began to fall asleep for a couple of hours, but I woke up from delirium and a terrible confusion of consciousness – you don’t understand where reality is and where sleep is. Then he suffered from insomnia for several years.

“I had a complication after measles – pleurisy and terribly hair fell out. Half remained from the density that was. Be prepared for the fact that in adulthood measles is very difficult to tolerate, be on the lookout and call an ambulance right away, Tatyana advises. – When a person gets measles, it can not be compared with anything until the rashes come off the face, just horror. I had the impression that I couldn’t take it anymore.”

Doctors remind that measles itself is difficult to tolerate, and gives severe complications, some of which can develop even after 8 years. There is no reliable way to avoid infection, measles is extremely contagious. There is no specific treatment either – it all depends on the characteristics of your body.