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How a person get shingles?
A person gets shingles by first getting chickenpox. When the acute stage of chicken pox goes away, the virus remains alive in your system. At a later date the chicken pox virus becomes active and causes shingles. Today a vaccine is available for chicken pox. A parent who refuses to get a child vaccinated could not only cause problems when the child catches chicken pox, but could also cause problems when that child becomes an older adult suffering with shingles.
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.
Are you contagious with shingles?
This is not exactly true. If you have chickenpox as a child, you cannot then get shingles as an adult. However, if you do not have chickenpox as a child but get it as an adult, it is possible that this will develop into shingles.
Is it safe for a newborn to be around someone with shingles?
The answer can be contradicted. But so many times the parents are spotted to get their child to the baby with chicken pox. So that the child should get the chicken pox in childhood only. In shingles, the same virus is implicated and it is good to have chicken pox in child hood only.
How often should you get a shingles shot?
You should have the vaccine as an older adult if you had chicken pox as a child. Before shingles appear.
Can you get chickenpox from someone who has shingles if you had shingles before?
If you had shingles before, that means you had chicken pox already as a child, long before shingles developed. You cannot catch chicken pox from shingles if you already had chicken pox.Chicken pox is a one-time illness, usually in childhood. It does not matter how "mild" or "bad" the chicken pox is. The body's defenses are activated whether "mild" or "bad" and immunity results. No person acquires chicken pox twice.Shingles is caused by the same virus but with shingles, the virus is re-activated within the person's own body (not from catching the chicken pox virus from someone else). A person who never had chicken pox cannot get shingles; but that person who never had chicken pox can get chicken pox.A person who has shingles can infect others with chicken pox, but only if those persons (usually children) never had chicken pox before. If a person with shingles is around a person/child who already had chicken pox, the other people won't get chicken pox or shingles.The defining factors in shingles are:The person already had chicken poxThe person is generally over 50 years oldThe person may also have a compromised immune system
What would cause a child of 2 to get shingles?
the Varicella Zoster virus but elderly people usually get the shingles because they have already had the chicken pox before
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.
Can you get the chickenpox from someone who has shingles?
A child who never had chicken pox can be infected with chicken pox from an adult (usually over the age of 50 years) who develops shingles. Contact with the fluid from mucous membranes (coughing, sneezing) or from contact with the fluid that oozes out of the open sores carries the virus. A child who has had chicken pox before cannot get chicken pox from an adult with shingles, nor can the child get shingles (because shingles appears later in life). An adult who has shingles cannot give shingles to another adult--- the 2nd adult would get chicken pox first IF that adult never had chicken pox as a child.
Can shingles run in families?
You catch shingles in old age because you had chicken pox as a child. Children catch chicken pox from other children with chicken pox or from old people with shingles. While no one inherits shingles, it may seem that way because children who caught chicken pox from their grandparents with shingles will give chicken pox to their grandchildren when they get old and get shingles unless the grandchildren get a vaccination for chickenpox.
Can you get chickenpox if you never had them but had shingles?
AnswerActually shingles and chicken pox do have a lot to do with each other. Varicella-zoster is the virus. When you get chicken pox the virus stays in your body. Stress or poor immune system are ways you can get shingles earlier than 50's or older. Maybe you had chicken pox and you or your parents didn't know. My friend only had one pox. I would talk to your doctor. There is a test you can take. If it is shingles the doctor can help with a treatment plan. Just wanted to add you can have had shingles without ever having chicken pox and although rare you can get them at any time (I had shingles at the age of 5 but never had chicken pox). Shingles and chicken pox are in the same family but are different and look different. I have not had another outbreak since the age of 5 although I have been exposed to chicken pox.AnswerMost cases of shingles are caused by the varicella-zoster virus. A few are caused by herpes simplex. So, yes, it is possible to get shingles from a latent herpes simplex infection if you have never had chicken pox.
Do black people have shingles?
No, shingles comes from the Chicken Pox virus. If you have had Chicken Pox in your lifetime then you can get shingles at most anytime, it usually develops in your old age tho. I'm HIV positive since 1990 and have had Chicken Pox as a child. shingles was considered a opportunistic infection of HIV and I have already had shingles when I was in my 30's.
