Chickenpox

Mumps and chickenpox are separate illnesses caused by different viruses. Mumps virus does not cause chickenpox, and mumps does not lead to chickenpox.

Chickenpox blisters show up in waves, so after some begin to crust over, a new group of spots might appear. New chickenpox usually stop appearing by the seventh day, though they may stop as early as the third day. It usually takes 10-14 days for all the blisters to be scabbed over and then you are no longer contagious.

A chickenpox "carrier" is someone who is infected with chickenpox but does not have symptoms. Anyone susceptible to chickenpox can be a chickenpox carrier.

You can eat anything you want during chicken pox if you want it. Once appetite returns with chicken pox, pretty much anything you want is fine to eat.

There are no dietary restrictions when you have chickenpox. You can eat what you like.

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.

Research has shown that the Chickenpox causing virus, varicella zoster, remains in the nerve cells after recovery. Shingles, in later life, is caused by a reactivation of the virus.

Chickenpox occurs all over the body, whereas shingles forms a small rash on either the torso, face or neck.

a blood test to determine if you have immnuity to varicella (chicken pox).

The virus that causes chickenpox, known as varicella zoster virus or VZV, is closely related to the herpes viruses and is an enveloped, double-stranded DNA virus

The virus that causes Chicken Pox is different from the virus that causes Measles. If you receive the vaccination for Chicken Pox and not the vaccination for Measles, you are immune to the virus that causes Chicken Pox but have no immunity against the virus that causes Measles. Thus, while while Chicken Pox will not kill you from Reyes Syndrome, you might go blind from Measles. You should also get vaccinated for Measles.

We can be immune to chicken pox as if the mother of a baby has had chicken pox the mother will pass temporary immunity to the baby. You can also have a vaccination. If you have chicken pox once it is unlikely you will have it again. But you can get measles more than once unless you get vaccinated. Measles are also more serious than chicken pox.

Chickenpox is no longer contagious once all lesions are crusted over.

Herpes zoster (shingles)
shingles
The varicella-zoster virus.

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.

French pox is an old-fashioned pseudonym for syphilis, which is caused by bacteria.

Chickenpox is very contagious, so that 90% of household contacts get the infection. As a result, in unimmunized populations, most adults are immune to chickenpox.

Yes. Trust me I am going through it right now.

You can only get it once, but it lies dormant in the body and can reactivate later in life as shingles or herpes zoster. More than one reactivation is rare and more than three is extremely rare.

Chickenpox lesions usually show up first on the chest, head, and back. Then it spreads over the body.

No, chickenpox is a scalar, so while it is not a vector in and of itself, it may influence other vectors such as Ebola.

My son had these, We applied Hyrocoritizone each night and started using sensitive skin (liquid) soap during bath or shower. Hope this helps.

Kids that have been vacinated against say chicken pox can in fact still get the chicken pox. This in fact just happened to my neice right before thanksgiving. In Michigan they just upped the dosage of one vaccination to two to decrease the out break of the chicken pox because one dose isn't enough to protect against that strand anymore.

? chicken pox is a disease caused by viruses called the varicella zoster virus (which also causes shingles). viruses are not normally considered organisms because they don't meet all the characteristics of living things.

I honestly wouldn't recommend using it. It may take the look away but it isn't worth it because putting most types of makeup on a shingles rash would irritate the rash even more.

Oral herpes and herpes zooster are slightly different types of herpes.

Oral herpes is what causes cold sores, herpes zooster is what causes chicken pox and shingles.

For oral herpes usually you would get some itching, burning and or tingling symptoms occuring around the out side of the mouth around the lips. Then a pimple / white blister comes up on or around the lips, which then can break into an open sore or larger blister. Cold sores / fever blisters can last any where from 1-4 weeks depending on how sever they are. They can be easily treated with over the counter cold sore creams or antiviral medication.

For oral herpes zooster (shingles in the mouth) you mouth would be in a lot of pain, so much pain that it can prevent you from sleeping which can cause a bunch of other side affects.

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.