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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.
Who cured chickenpox?
There is no vaccine to cure chickenpox. Chickenpox vaccine is used to prevent chickenpox, and can be used up to five days after exposure to the illness. Some severely infected patients might get IVIG to help cure chickenpox, but this is not considered a vaccine.
Taking vitamin c and echinacea will prevent you from getting the flu?
No of course not. It might help but won't prevent.
Can you get shingles from lying in a bed after someone else who had shingles say in a hospital?
Shingles is caused by the chickenpox virus. You do not get shingles from someone with shingles; you get chickenpox from someone with shingles. Then when you get older, you will get shingles because you had chickenpox. Or, you might get older and never get chickenpox. In that case, you will thank your mother for having you vaccinated against chickenpox when you were a child.
Im pregnant and you might have chickenpox but you dont have the symptoms could it be something else?
Chickenpox and pregnancy are two different sickness all together.
What are the chances that a child will get chickenpox?
Children as a group are more likely to get chickenpox because they are less likely to have had chickenpox previously. Chickenpox is highly contagious, and usually confers lifelong immunity, so adults are likely to be immune. In countries without routine vaccination, 90% of adults are immune to chickenpox due to previous infection.
Can you catch chickenpox in Antarctica?
If you come in contact with someone there that already has chickenpox, yes you might (if you are not already immune). Otherwise no.Another AnswerIt is highly unlikely that anyone living and working in Antarctica temporarily would be ill with chickenpox -- but you may catch it traveling to this assignment.
Can black people get chickenpox?
Yes. The only thing I am aware of that remotely might be related to your question is that if someone has sickle cell anemia they are unlikely to get malaria.
Can you get chickenpox as an adult if you never had them?
Yes, when your a child and you get chickenpox you develop immunity to it because your immune system understands the virus that gives you chickenpox so can battle it with ease. If you haven't had chicken pox yet, your immune system doesn't have time to understand the virus and therefore it's completely knew to your body.
Can you spread chickenpox if you don't have it?
A chickenpox "carrier" is someone who is infected with chickenpox but does not have symptoms. Anyone susceptible to chickenpox can be a chickenpox carrier. If you are a carrier, typically you will develop blisters as the illness progresses.
Can chickenpox disappear when you are 20?
yes but thy might not because your skin stops to grow at that age
Can a hamster get chickenpox?
no but they might but im pretty sure it doesn't 98% sure it doesn't 2% sure it does
