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Yes, you can exercise when you have chickenpox if you have no fever and feel OK. You should stay isolated until all bumps and sores are scabbed over, so that you don't spread the infection to anyone else. You should also avoid getting overheated, as it may increase itching.

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No, you can't get chickenpox if you had shingles. If you have shingles, you already had chickenpox and are immune.

You can't get shingles unless you already had chickenpox. Chickenpox is a one-time illness, usually in childhood. It does not matter how "mild" or "bad" the chickenpox is. The body's defenses are activated whether "mild" or "bad" and immunity results. No person acquires chicken pox twice.

After you recover from chickenpox, the virus lays dormant in the cells and can be reactivated. Though the whole process is not entirely understood, the virus wakes up and shows up as a severe painful rash.

A person who has shingles can infect others with chickenpox, but only if those persons (usually children) never had chickenpox before, and if they have direct contact with a wet shingles blister or sore. If a person with shingles is around a person who already had chickenpox, the other person won't get chickenpox or shingles.

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After you have chicken pox, you can get shingles. The virus remain hidden, in the posterior root ganglion, for the rest of your lifetime. It comes out to invade the region supplied by the single nerve, when your immunity drops down. How this virus evades the immunity is not known.

Shingles presents itself as tiny vesicles or blister-like raised red spots, on one side of the body following the body's dermatones. They will not cross over the center line of the body. You can even get shingles in your eyes. It is usually treated with pain meds and a steroid-type of drug, like prednisone and sometimes antiviral meds.

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An elective procedure will be delayed until chickenpox has resolved, since you will be contagious and a potential danger to others in the hospital.

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Can I have surgery if I have impetigo

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No unless it is an emergency

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Q: Can you get chickenpox if you have shingles?
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Can one pimple be shingles?

No. You only get shingles's if you have had chickenpox. No chickenpox no shingles's.


Can you get shingles from lying in a bed after someone else who had shingles say in a hospital?

Shingles is caused by the chickenpox virus. You do not get shingles from someone with shingles; you get chickenpox from someone with shingles. Then when you get older, you will get shingles because you had chickenpox. Or, you might get older and never get chickenpox. In that case, you will thank your mother for having you vaccinated against chickenpox when you were a child.


Where in the world do you find chickenpox and shingles?

Chickenpox and shingles are found throughout the world.


Can shingles or chickenpox be transferred by a third party?

Shingles and chickenpox can only be transferred by someone who is infected.


Is it possible to get chickenpox from some one who has shingles when you have only had shingles at a young age and not chickenpox?

First, you can't get shingles at any age unless you have previously had chickenpox. Although your chickenpox illness may have been so mild that you didn't notice, a diagnosis of shingles is proof that you had chickenpox. Second, only those who have never had chickenpox can get chickenpox from shingles. Third, shingles is only contagious through direct contact with wet lesions, and is not likely to be spread through casual contact.


You have idiopathic urticaria can you get shingles from someone with chickenpox?

You can't get shingles from someone with chickenpox, whatever your other medical conditions. You only get shingles from reactivation of your own prior infection with chickenpox virus.


Can you get shingles from someone if you have had chickenpox?

No, it is not.


Can you catch shingles from other children who have shingles?

No. While you can catch chickenpox, shingles comes from a virus already within you (chickenpox virus) so you can only have shingles if you have previously had chickenpox. I myself had shingles back when I was in the fourth grade but neither my brother nor my sister ever had it.


Are shingles catchy?

No. You can however catch chickenpox from the shingles if you've never had them before. The shingles themselves come from a dormant chickenpox virus in your skin tissue.


If you are vaccinated against chickenpox can you still get shingles?

No, there is no reason to get chickenpox vaccine if you've had shingles. You should talk with your health care provider about shingles vaccine.


Is there a shingles titer?

You appear to be confused about the nature of shingles. A positive varicella titer shows that you have had chickenpox in the past, or that you have had the vaccine for chickenpox. You can't get shingles unless you've had chickenpox. If you have had chickenpox, a positive varicella titer is not protective against shingles, and you may need the vaccine. Discuss with your health care provider whether shingles vaccine makes sense for you.


Can chickenpox vaccine prevent shingles by cryosurgery?

Those who have had chickenpox vaccine have a lower risk of shingles, but you can talk with your health care provider about getting shingles vaccine. I have no idea what cryosurgery has to do with shingles.