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Can someone that had shingles care for a child with chickenpox?
In the US, you may be eligible for unpaid Family and Medical Leave Act time off to care for a child with chickenpox. Ask your human resources department if FMLA applies to your employer.
Can you get chickenpox from someone who has shingles?
Yes, it is possible for someone to get chickenpox from a person who has shingles, but it's not easy. You can only get chickenpox from someone with shingles if you come in direct skin-to-skin contact with wet or weeping lesions. Once the lesions are crusted over, you can't get it. Since you haven't had chickenpox, which is the same virus as shingles (that you've now been exposed to), you'll probably end up with chickenpox.
Is chickenpox vaccine useful?
Chickenpox vaccine is useful. It reduces the risk of chickenpox, of complications, hospitalizations, and deaths from chickenpox, and of shingles.
Can you transmit chickenpox to someone else when you have been in contact with someone with chickenpox?
You can only transmit chickenpox to someone if you have the chickenpox yourself.Once you had chicken pox you can not get it again-that is what is believed by doctors and scientists. You should be vaccinated for it because if you were not and did not have it when you were young you can get it when you are elderly but it is worse and called "shingles."
If you are going on holiday in a week would you spend time now with a grandchild with chickenpox?
If you are not immune to chickenpox from previous infection or immunization, you may be at risk for chickenpox from exposure now. If you are immune, there is no risk.
Can taking gamma globulin prevent chickenpox?
Taking varicella immunoglobulin can prevent chickenpox or reduce the risk of serious disease. These treatments are reserved for those at risk for serious complications from chickenpox.
Who is at most risk when having chickenpox?
A elderly person having chicken pox puts that person at risk, its better to get chicken pox when you are a kid, so you are immunized. Also people who get chicken pox for the second time are at risk.
Who is most at risk for chickenpox causing death?
The threat is greatest to newborns, who are more at risk of death from chickenpox than any other group.
How can you avoid being infected with chickenpox while attending to an infected patient at home?
Chickenpox vaccine is the best option for avoiding chickenpox while caring for someone who is infected. Given within five days of exposure, it can lower the risk of infection. Contact your healthcare provider today.
Can you carry chickenpox to other adults if you are caring for a child with chickenpox?
Any person suffering from a virus such as chicken pox should be isolated. If you are caring for a person with chicken pox you will not pass on the virus to another person who has already suffered a form of the disease; they will be immune. When visiting or caring for a person with any illness, especially an infectious disease, good hygiene is essential. The most important aspect of good hygiene is hand-washing; you should wash your hands thoroughly, in hot water if possible, and dry them well before and after contact with the ill person. This is hugely important because if you are caring for or visiting an ill person, you could not only carry their infection to others, but could easily transmit an infection to them, picked up from hand contact or by contact with objects such as telephones, door handles, light switches, elevator buttons, and so on. A person who is already ill is at greater risk of contracting an infection. Very many infections are transmitted by contact with someone either suffering from the infection or someone who has had contact with an infected person and failed to observe proper hygiene procedures. If you touched someone with chickenpox the day before, you are not likely to carry chickenpox to another child unless you yourself are infected. If you don't have immunity and got infected as a result of your contact, you could infect others.
What happens if you get the chickenpox at a very old age?
Getting chickenpox as an adult has a higher risk of complications and death.
Will the severity of the chickenpox be less if you have the vaccine?
Yes, the vaccine reduces the severity of chickenpox and the risk of complications and hospitalization.
