Chickenpox

Shingles is not contagious -- it can't be "caught" from someone else. People with shingles can give you chickenpox if you haven't had it.

See related link below for information on transmitting shingles

the first i am guessing is to get a vaccine. Here the body recieves a piece of the virus that is innactive. The body responds by learning the disease and preventing it from happening in the future. The other way (for some diseases) is to experience the disease. Some diseases like chicken pox only happens once and after you're body won't let it happen again.

Not exactly. Typically you have Chicken pox all over your body. However, if you have a mild case or a post-vaccine case (that is much milder), it is possible to have a breakout in which the most visable symptoms are primarily in one area. For example, my daughter had a post-vaccine breakout in which her whole body had a mild rash but only her bottom was broken out in the recognizable "Pox" markings. xz

Chicken pox is a viral infection that causes a rash.

Your hair is DEAD....not alive.....

It is IMPOSSIBLE to have chicken pox in your hair (a virus cannot infect, breed, or live on a dead surface).

Perhaps you have chicken pox on your SCALP which is the SKIN of your head which IS alive......

Colds, influenza and measles are all three caused by different kinds of viruses.

Usually a skin rash that look like pimples or mosquito bites that develop into blisters and then into open sores, sometimes this is accompanied by a low grade fever. After 2 - 4 days symptoms should start to disappear, unless your child has a weakened immune system then a more serious rash, fever or more serious infections.

Chickenpox is a viral illness caused by varicella zoster virus. It typically causes a rash of blisters, sores, and scabs over the whole body. Scarlet fever is a complication of infection with Group A beta streptococcus, a bacteria. It causes a very fine, sandpaper-like rash of bumps without blistering, sores, or scabs.

Yes, you can give chickenpox vaccine in the same area as other vaccines.

It would be better to avoid the use of cleansers with acids while you have chickenpox. Use a gentle cleanser and pat dry instead.

Chickenpox can't be prevented with homeopathy.

Any person suffering from a virus such as chicken pox should be isolated.

If you are caring for a person with chicken pox you will not pass on the virus to another person who has already suffered a form of the disease; they will be immune.

When visiting or caring for a person with any illness, especially an infectious disease, good hygiene is essential. The most important aspect of good hygiene is hand-washing; you should wash your hands thoroughly, in hot water if possible, and dry them well before and after contact with the ill person.

This is hugely important because if you are caring for or visiting an ill person, you could not only carry their infection to others, but could easily transmit an infection to them, picked up from hand contact or by contact with objects such as telephones, door handles, light switches, elevator buttons, and so on.

A person who is already ill is at greater risk of contracting an infection. Very many infections are transmitted by contact with someone either suffering from the infection or someone who has had contact with an infected person and failed to observe proper hygiene procedures.

If you touched someone with chickenpox the day before, you are not likely to carry chickenpox to another child unless you yourself are infected. If you don't have immunity and got infected as a result of your contact, you could infect others.

Technically, there is no cure for chickenpox. Once you get the virus, it stays in your body for life. However, the acute illness of chickenpox usually goes away within a few weeks without treatment. For those with serious illness or at high risk for complications, antiviral medication may be used to decrease the severity. Otherwise, usually it's treated symptomatically with medicine or home remedies to decrease itching, fever, or aches.

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All children with chickenpox should avoid aspirin. If a child can safely take acetaminophen, s/he can do so when s/he has chickenpox.

Since only about 5% will have recurring outbreaks, it may not be worth getting the vaccine (unless you are one of the 5%).

This is just possible theoretically. But it should be very rare in practice to have such patient.

Current exposure to chickenpox does not increase the risk of shingles. A past history of chickenpox is the necessary condition for getting shingles. It's not something you catch from someone; it's reactivation of previous chickenpox infection.

Chickenpox is caused by varicella zoster virus, a member of the herpes family. And chickenpox can affect the mucous membranes near the eye. However, chickenpox does not cause the kind of vision-threatening infection usually associated with herpes simplex or herpes zoster infection of the eye.

Today, the only small pox cultures that exist are those in very secure labs in Russia and the United States. It is impossible for a baby to get the small pox in this day and age.

However, if the Small Pox virus did happen to get on a baby, the baby can get it.

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

Chickenpox is not usually fatal, but is more likely to kill teenagers and adults than it is to kill infants and children (see related link). Deaths and hospitalizations from chickenpox have dropped 90% in the US since introduction of chickenpox vaccine in 1995.

Calamine lotion doesn't actually treat the chickenpox virus. It does, however, help relieve the itching that is associated with the spots. It contains an anti-itching agent to relieve itching.