[Chickenpox--neurological complications in children].

Chickenpox is one of the most common infectious diseases in children. In most of the cases the disease is mild and no complications of it are being observed. However, in some of the paediatric patients, the disease may have a serious course with different complications. Most of them are not life-threatening, but some of them, like myocarditis, hepatitis or thrombocytopenia, may be dangerous. Neurological complications of Varicella-zoster virus infection, like encephalitis, meningitis, transverse myelitis, cerebellitis, polyneuropathy or an ischemic stroke, are relatively rare. The authors present 5 children with different neurological complications of chickenpox. The neurological complications of chickenpox did not result in permanent sequel but the cost of hospitalization and the exclusion of the child from everyday activity seem to justify the idea of the routine vaccination.