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What spinal cord structure does shingles retreat to after chickenpox?
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Posterior root
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Can chickenpox vaccine cause shingles?
Chickenpox vaccine does not cause shingles directly, but the virus, like naturally-caught virus, stays in the spinal cord and may be reactivated later to cause herpes. The chances are lower with chickenpox vaccine than with chickenpox disease.
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.
Can a child get adult measles?
Adults can get both chickenpox and shingles. Prior to universal vaccination in the US, chickenpox was considered a "childhood" disease. Since vaccination became routine, the average age of chickenpox patients has increased. The virus that causes the disease, varicella zoster virus, lives, dormant, in the spinal cord after the disease is over . In later adult years, this can flare up again as shingles. An adult who never had chickenpox or the vaccine can't get shingles. Between one in five and one in three adults will get shingles after having chickenpox.
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.
Why is the virus called shingles?
Shingles is not the name of the virus but the name of the rash. Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is an infection of a nerve and the skin around it. It is caused by the varicella (chickenpox)-zoster (shingles) virus. Its' name is from the French and Latin meaning girdle or belt. The rash "follows" the nerves. These nerves come off of the spinal cord in a belt-like fashion.
How can you tell the difference between genital shingles and shingles?
You get Shingles from the virus Herpes Zoster. After one is exposed to and has chickenpox, this virus stays in the system and is sometimes re-activated as the Shingles.Shingles are the adult form of chickenpox. They are very dangerous for adults. The form along the spinal column.You get an attack of chicken pox. After this attack, the virus remain hidden in posterior root ganglion of your nervous system. How does it evades the immunity is not known till date. When ever your body immunity becomes low, the viruses come out and the vesicles erupt along the distribution of the sensory nerve fibres.You probably had chickenpox when you were young, and something caused that virus to become active, which is shingles.
Are chickenpox vaccine and shingles vaccine the same?
In a way, it is. When a person is infected with the varicella zoster virus, the resulting illness is chickenpox. The virus does not leave the body and remains dormant in nerve cells and is later reactivated in about a third of people. Usually this is reactivation associated with a weakening of the immune system, and the symptoms are different from those of the first illness. It is extremely painful, as the nerve endings become inflamed and a rash is present. These symptoms are usually localized, unlike chickenpox which is general.
Will chickenpox leave the herpes virus in your blood?
After having chickenpox, the varicella zoster virus retreats to your spinal cord nerves, not your blood, where it remains for live.
What structure develops into the vertebrate spinal cord?
The notochord develops into the vertebrate spinal cord.
Where does chickenpox virus lie dormant?
The chickenpox virus (varicella zoster virus) enters the body through the upper respiratory mucous membranes and reproduces for a little bit. The virus then moves to the lymph nodes, then to the bloodstream, and then the skin cells. Usually the first rash shows in the back or chest. the rash moves to the limbs, face, eyelids, and sometimes the mouth. After recovery, the virus remains in part of the spinal cord (the dorsal root ganglia) for the rest of your life.
Why do i have shingles?
Shingles are caused by the same virus that caused Chicken Pox, Varicella zoster virus (VZV). The virus remains dormant in nerve cells, and sometimes is reactivated in later life, causing Shingles.
Structure located inferior to the brainstem?
Spinal cord......
