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What parts of the body are most affected by chickenpox and shingles?
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∙ 10y ago
The skin and mucous membranes are the body parts most affected by chickenpox and shingles. Shingles also affects the nerves in the area that has the rash.
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Do i have Shingles?
Shingles comes from having chickenpox in the past. It stays in your body and as you age it comes out as shingles. There is a shot for it.
How is the shingles disease acquired?
Shingles comes from having chickenpox in the past. It stays in your body and as you age it comes out as shingles. There is a shot for it.
Can you get chickenpox after having shingles?
You had to have had chickenpox once to later develop shingles (a flareup of latent chickenpox virus still in the body). That initial case of chickenpox usually confers lifetime immunity to chickenpox, so you cannot be reinfected. But the immune system often is unable to totally eradicate the chickenpox virus from the body, only keep it at a very low "latent" level that is not contagious and causes no symptoms. Then as one gets older, sporadically the immune system loses control and the latent chickenpox virus growth flares, however instead of producing chickenpox symptoms it produces shingles symptoms. Eventually the immune system again gets control of the chickenpox virus in the body, which returns to latent levels again and the shingles goes away.
What could chickenpox come back as?
Chickenpox virus remains in your body, and may be reactivated later to cause shingles.
Can you only get adult chickenpox on one part of the body?
Chickenpox in children and adults is typically throughout the body. Shingles is likely to be found on only one part of the body.
If you had chickenpox at age 7 What might prevent you from getting chickenpox a year later?
You cannot get chickenpox twice. Your body adapts to the virus and you no longer break out. You can, however, get shingles later in life from the chickenpox virus still in your body.
How long after being exposed to shingles will you get it?
IF you're going to get chickenpox from a shingles exposure, it would take between 10 and 21 days to get chickenpox. You'd have to never have had chickenpox before to get shingles, however, even if you'd never had chickenpox, you still might not catch them from being exposed to shingles.
What rash moves around body and is painful but not itchy?
Have you had chickenpox? If so, could be shingles.
What is a milder version of chickenpox called?
There is no special medical term for a mild case of chickenpox. Shingles is the term for a recurrence of chickenpox that is usually covering a small area of the body; however, the symptoms may be different and, in some ways, more severe. Shingles isn't considered a milder version of chickenpox.
Can chickenpox be caused by shingles?
Once you get the chicken pox infection, the virus gets hidden in your posterior root ganglion. How does it evades the immune system is poorly understood. It comes out in the form of herpes zoster or shingles, when your immunity lowers down. There is no mutation of the virus.
How does Varicella zoster virus cause Chickenpox?
ok, Varicella, or Herpes Zoster is a cell to cell process. It can be spread through contact or air-born pathways. Once it invades the body it travels to the ganglia, or nerves of the body. Once your chickenpox episode is over, guess what? The Varicella is still in the body, only it has become dormant. It travels down the nerves into the spinal column. If it becomes active again, which can happen, it presents as "shingles". That's what they mean when they say if you have had Chickenpox you can get shingles. That's what shingles is; a reactivated, once dormant Chickenpox.
What is the name for chickenpox in adulthood?
Chickenpox in adulthood does not have a special name. However, shingles is an infection that can result from later reactivation of your lifelong infection with chickenpox virus. It happens most often in adults.
