Chickenpox

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.

Yes, the name chickenpox was actually called varicella but they changed it after they found out what it originally came to be and how it works.

Generally, animals do not get chickenpox. It affects humans and a few other primates, such as gorillas. It does not affect cats, dogs, and other typical pets.

No, but you can get chicken pox if you haven't had it before. Most at risk are young children and pregnant women. Other than that, most people have had chicken pox. Shingles is only contagious while the blisters are forming.

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Scratching chicken pox sores can make the sores spread. Fingernails can also scratch the skin, creating tears in the skin which could allow bacteria to enter (in which case you'd have chicken pox plus an infected skin wound).

When people speak of a "carrier" of an infectious disease, they normally are referring to someone who is carrying the germ, can infect others, but has no symptoms. The period between getting the virus and getting symptoms is called the "incubation period" of an infection. The incubation period of chickenpox is 10-21 days, but is typically about two weeks.

However, chickenpox is a virus in the herpes family that goes into remission after the patient recovers from chickenpox. The virus stays in your body. It is the same virus that causes shingles in some in later years. However, in this period of remission, the patient is not contagious and isn't, technically, a "carrier."

Immediate chickenpox immunization clinics, strict handwashing, cough hygiene, and restricting return of sick school community members until all lesions are scabbed can stop the spread of chickenpox within a school.

People who have chickenpox normally develop immunity that lasts throughout their life, and they are unlikely to get chickenpox a second time. It is possible for a person who had chickenpox earlier to get shingles, a related disease that affects between one fifth and one third of those who had chickenpox earlier.

Yes, the number of chickenpox cases in the US declined after the introduction of chickenpox vaccine in 1995.

Typically, a rubella titer is done before the first pregnancy. Chickenpox titer may be done at this time, also. Sometimes these tests are required before getting certain types of work. It is not necessary to get these tests repeated; once is enough.

You can get chickenpox on any skin or mucous membranes, including the genitals.

A chickenpox "carrier" is someone who is infected with chickenpox but does not have symptoms. Anyone susceptible to chickenpox can be a chickenpox carrier. Someone who had the vaccine is unlikely to be infected with and carry chickenpox.

Various cells are involved. The varicella-zoster virus enters through the respiratory system. Then it is found in the lymph nodes 4-6 days later the virus enters the cells of the spleen and liver. After a week the virus travels to the viscera and skin, causing the typical skin markings.

Seconds - chickenpox is very contagious and 90% of people exposed will get it unless they've already had it before. The person is contagious from about 2 days before the spots appear until about 5 days after they appear, or until there are no more fresh or moist spots on the skin.

It's not possible to know how chickenpox started. It is a very old disease. Chickenpox was described in the ninth century by a Persian physician. One history of medicine book credits Giovanni Filippo (1510-1580) of Palermo with the first description of varicella (chickenpox). Subsequently in the 1600s, an English physician named Richard Morton described what he thought a mild form of smallpox as "chicken pox." Later, in 1767, a physician named William Heberden, also from England, was the first physician to clearly demonstrate that chickenpox was different from smallpox. However, it is believed the name chickenpox was commonly used in earlier centuries before doctors identified the disease.

There are many explanations offered for the origin of the name chickenpox:

Samuel Johnson suggested that the disease was "no very great danger", thus a "chicken" version of the pox;

the specks that appear looked as though the skin was pecked by chickens;

the disease was named after chick peas, from a supposed similarity in size of the seed to the lesions;

the term reflects a corruption of the Old English word giccin, which meant itching.

As "pox" also means curse, in medieval times some believed it was a plague brought on to curse children by the use of black magic.

At various times in the development of chickenpox, the bumps can look red, yellow, or black. Adults will often have a darker color of bumps. A blistering rash is most common in those who have never been vaccinated, but patients who have a case of chickenpox after immunization may not get blisters, but only red marks.

you don't get a scar when it goes away

Whooping cough is very dangerous for babies under 1 year, whooping cough also caused alot of deaths before there was medicine, today whooping cough is not so bad but it is bad for babies because they will not be able to breath and really they will die!

If you're thirteen or older, you can get the second chickenpox vaccine as long as it's been at least 28 days since the last one. For patients under thirteen, they must wait three months minimum until the second vaccine.

That rather depends. If you've already had Chicken Pox, you're already immunised from shingles. Chicken-Pox & shingles are both caused by the same virus. If you've already had chicken-pox as a youngster, your body is already immune from catching shingles. If not - then just make an appointment with your doctor to have the vaccination.