Predicting the course is extremely difficult
Doctors consider measles a serious illness for adults. It is much more likely than in children to cause brain damage (measles encephalitis, threatening death or serious consequences for the psyche and health in general), lungs (with the development of severe viral pneumonia with the addition of microbial flora).
But even if these terrible complications are not present, the disease proceeds with a high fever for more than 8 days and extremely painful symptoms – cough, conjunctivitis, body aches.
But whooping cough is tolerated by adults, on the contrary, easier. Although it all depends on the characteristics of the immune response. For life, the infection, as a rule, is not dangerous, but coughing in a row for 6-8 weeks or more is not very pleasant.
Scarlet fever is also easier, but the peculiarity of streptococcus that causes scarlet fever is heart damage, the development of sepsis in elderly, debilitated people.
