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Can an adult infect a child with shingles working in a nursery?
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∙ 10y ago
Shingles is contagious only if someone has contact with wet shingles blisters or sores. If the infected skin can be covered, a person can work in any field, including health care or child care.
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What commonly known as shingles?
basically adult chicken pox
How often should you get a shingles shot?
You should have the vaccine as an older adult if you had chicken pox as a child. Before shingles appear.
Are you contagious with shingles?
This is not exactly true. If you have chickenpox as a child, you cannot then get shingles as an adult. However, if you do not have chickenpox as a child but get it as an adult, it is possible that this will develop into shingles.
What type of pathogen is shingles?
Chicken pox is caused by the Varicella Zoxter Virus (VZV) and it is one of eight herpes viruses to infect humans. The most common cause of infection that it gives is chicken pox in children, and then shingles in adults...although I can't remember the last time I've heard of an adult having shingles. The VZV virus is also known as the chickenpox virus, varicella virus, zoster virus, and human herpes virus type 3.
Is there an adult nursery in Nevada for adult babies?
HelloJAV.com presents various Japan and Asian adult video torrents including Nurse adlut video.
What has the author Margaret Isabel Fletcher written?
Margaret Isabel Fletcher has written: 'The adult and the nursery school child' -- subject(s): Nursery schools
Can shingles be transferred from one part of the body to another by touch?
The herpes zoster virus is readily transmitted by touch from person to person, or from contacted objects. However, not everyone exposed will get shingles. Exposure to chickenpox as a child can lead to a delayed outbreak of shingles as an adult.
Can you get the chickenpox from someone who has shingles?
A child who never had chicken pox can be infected with chicken pox from an adult (usually over the age of 50 years) who develops shingles. Contact with the fluid from mucous membranes (coughing, sneezing) or from contact with the fluid that oozes out of the open sores carries the virus. A child who has had chicken pox before cannot get chicken pox from an adult with shingles, nor can the child get shingles (because shingles appears later in life). An adult who has shingles cannot give shingles to another adult--- the 2nd adult would get chicken pox first IF that adult never had chicken pox as a child.
Can you sleep in the same bed with someone who has shingles?
Shingles is a herpes virus know as chicken pox (herpes zoster) when it occurs as a child. When it reoccurs in an adult it is called shingles. Chicken pox is contagious but Shingles is not contagious if you had Chicken pox as a child. The most dangerous effect of herpes zoster is when the lesions occur on your retina.
Is shingles a virus caused by skin disease?
Shingles are caused by the varicella virus, the same virus that causes chicken pox. Those who have had chicken pox when younger carry the dormant virus for the rest of their lives. Should the virus "reactivate" in an adult, the result is shingles.
Is shingles a virus or bacteria?
Shingles virus is commonly known as chichken pox virus. When chicken pox virus stays latent in the body(in the nervous system) and becomes reactivated after few years, it is referred to as shingles. Shingles occurring in adults has more complications than chicken pox.
Can shingles go down the leg?
Shingles can break out along the pathway of any nerve. Anyone who had chicken pox as a child has the virus in their bodies. Later, as an adult, the virus can become active, causing a breakout along a nerve or nerves. Shingles is extremely painful to endure.
