The effect of household exposure on someone who is taking prednisone will depend on the dose, duration, and the patient's history of chickenpox or vaccine. Contact your health care provider for advice specific to your situation.
If you spent time with someone with chickenpox, you could be infected unless you had chickenpox or the vaccine before.
If you had chickenpox, it's possible for your bumps to get a secondary infection. In other words, you could have a bacterial infection of the chickenpox sores.
Chickenpox virus remains in your body, and may be reactivated later to cause shingles.
If you had it as a baby, it could be chickenpox: if not enough immunity is built up the first time, then the varciella-zoster virus can strike again, as chickenpox, not shingles.
Chickenpox and pregnancy are two different sickness all together.
Yes, there have always been deaths from chickenpox. Usually, patients recover completely without complications.
chickenpox can cause death in a person of any age. This happens due to complications such as pnuemonia, meningitis, staph infections etc.
Natural immunity to chickenpox results from previous infection. There is no other way to be naturally immune to chickenpox. Sometimes, the previous infection may be mild enough that the disease was not noticed. You can become artificially immune to chickenpox by getting chickenpox vaccine.
Yes, you can have a case of chickenpox so mild that you didn't notice any bumps.
Have you had chickenpox? If so, could be shingles.
You could. However, you will have major side effects all of them bad.
Depends how young the infant is....... it could be bad for super young infants