Chickenpox

Your white blood cell count could be mildly elevated due to chickenpox, or from some other cause. Talk with your health care provider for information specific to your case. An isolated finding of elevated white blood cell count, in the absence of other symptoms, isn't something that normally gets treated or worked up.

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A previous occurrence of chickenpox normally provides lifelong immunity. In addition, a person who had chickenpox may get shingles in the future.

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If you work with elderly and vulnerable people, you should have demonstrated immunity to chickenpox by having it in the past or by having two doses of chickenpox vaccine. If that is the case, there is no risk in visiting your granddaughter.

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After the infection, you get naturally acquired active immunity to the chickenpox.

You have a very low chance of getting chickenpox again because your immune system has made antibodies to fight off.

Chickenpox is much less prevalent in the US than it was before vaccination was approved. Since chickenpox vaccine was approved in 1995, chickenpox cases have decreased 90% from their previous level of about 4 million cases per year.

Louis Pastuer Invented the vaccine for cowpox.

I gotem da' pox like 10 times got it from da ol' minge pie

White stuff does not come out of chickenpox bumps. Perhaps you have misdiagnosed yourself. See your health care provider for accurate diagnosis and treatment.

Normally, people recover fully from chickenpox and it does not affect life expectancy.

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

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.

A culture will reliably distinguish herpes from chickenpox

Powdered oatmeal in a bath can help with itching from chickenpox. You can buy specially prepared bath oatmeal in the pharmacy or grocery store, or can use a blender or food processor to pulverize the regular oats from your kitchen.

You are not likely to get chickenpox if you are immune, but it sometimes happens. When it does, the second case is usually mild with few bumps.

Chickenpox in children and adults is typically throughout the body. Shingles is likely to be found on only one part of the body.

It's possible, but not likely, to get chickenpox twice after getting chickenpox vaccine. Talk with your health care provider to find out how certain was the diagnosis.

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.

Varivax-- A vaccine for the prevention of chickenpox.

Luckily chicken pox actually has nothing to do with chickens, it's just a weird name for a virus. You do not grow chicken feet when you have chicken pox.

Yes, chickenpox is contagious two to four days before the rash appears.