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Adults can get both chickenpox and shingles. Prior to universal vaccination in the US, chickenpox was considered a "childhood" disease. Since vaccination became routine, the average age of chickenpox patients has increased. The virus that causes the disease, varicella zoster virus, lives, dormant, in the spinal cord after the disease is over . In later adult years, this can flare up again as shingles.
An adult who never had chickenpox or the vaccine can't get shingles. Between one in five and one in three adults will get shingles after having chickenpox.
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What are the symptoms you would see in the order that you would see them in a child who developed Measles?
A rash,tiredness, white spots on your tongue.If you do happen to get Measles then you should try and spread them, becauseit is a bit like Chickenpox, if you get them as a adult it will be painful!
How vaccinating a child with MMR vaccine makes them immune to measles?
MMR is measles mumps and rubella. If you give a strain of measles to a child, it's immune system develops anti bodies that destroy the virus, the anti bodies will stay around for ever and the child will be immune to measles as the anti bodies will prevent the measles virus from spreading.
How can you care for a child who has Measles?
airborne
What is the prognosis for a healthy child who contracts measles?
The prognosis for an otherwise healthy, well-nourished child who contracts measles is usually quite good.
Can you catch measles by holding a child?
If the child has measels, and you were not vaccinated, then yes you can.
Can you give a child with measles ibuprofen?
simple answer no
A child that has not been immunised with the MMR vaccine develops measles suggest a reason why antibiotics will not cure the child of measles?
Measles is a viral infection. Antibiotics treat infections caused by bacteria. Bacteria and viruses are two very different types of germs, and antibiotics will do nothing to cure the measles.
How do you remove an adult child?
A child is, by definition, not a adult An adult is not, by definition, a child Thus there is no such thing as an 'adult child' - your question is therefore impossible to answer.
If you had measles as a child best describes your immunity to measles?
Measles is caused by paramyxo virus and although may have infected humans once to give rise to antigens as immunization can again infect humans.
Why will antibiotics not cure a child of measles if they haven't had the MMR vaccine?
Antibiotics can only work against bacterium, whereas measles are caused by a virus.
My boyfriend recently has gotten scabies he thinks i cheated and gave them to him what can i do?
If it is indeed scabies, you couldn't have given them to him, he already had them. It is either measles or chicken pox that you have as a child that stays dormant and comes back as an adult. Often due to stress.
Can a parent get medical records of an adult child?
A parent can get the medical records of an adult child if the adult child gives express permission.
