Chickenpox

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.

Chickenpox is contagious in catarrhal stage, like most respiratory viral infections. By the time you have vesicles present on your body, the disease has become very less contagious.
Chicken Pox is contagious the minute it begins to develop inside a body, and stops being contagious when the last of the blisters disappear, at all times; It can be spread through the air, by touch, or other common method of transfer.
When you come in physical contact with them
chicken pox is contagious only for about 2 days before and 4 days after the breakout. but u cant get it from like hugging someone. more like kissing.
you can only get it if the other person has chiken pox
Chickenpox is contagious during the incubation period and while new lesions are forming and lesions have not yet scabbed over. It is no longer contagious once all lesions have scabbed.

Chickenpox is normally found widely dispersed on your body. If the lesions were only in one area, normally the diagnosis is shingles. Talk to your health care provider for advice and diagnosis specific to your situation.

My Daughter age 9 has Chickenpox at the moment and she has been immunised against it, as far as i am aware, the Vaccine does not prevent you from getting the disease at all it just helps to lessen the severity!! My daughter has not got a very bad case of it at all, she was quite unwell for the first day with a mild fever and a few blisters popping up but the next day she was running around like nothing was wrong, her biggest complaint has been that she is itchy, but oatmeal in the bath worked the best in this case!!

Any outbreak of chickenpox creates immunity in a healthy person. A severe outbreak doesn't make a person more immune than a mild outbreak.

A gram stain is a way of staining cells to determine what category the bacteria falls into (gram positive or gram negative). This is a very important test used to determine what type of bacteria is causing the problem. Gram positive bacteria are types such as Staphylococcus (Staph infections) and Streptococcus (Strep). Gram negative organisms are ones such as Escherichia Coli (E.Coli) and Salmonella. They have defining characteristics that can help the doctor pin point which bacteria is causing the infection, thus being able to give you the proper antibiotic that will take care of the infection.

Impetigo is caused by Staph and Strep infections making it a Gram Positive Bacteria.

No. You can give it to others. You need to stay home if you have chickenpox until all sores and blisters are scabbed over. At that point you're no longer contagious; however, your airline may require a note from your health care provider prior to allowing you to travel, so contact your carrier to find out about any needed paperwork.

On average, it takes 8-12 days for chickenpox to clear, but it can sometimes be longer or shorter than that. Shorter recovery usually happens in people previously vaccinated.

Chickenpox isn't "curable," strictly speaking. Medications can decrease symptoms in those at high risk for complications. The virus stays in your body forever.

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

yes and no. If your children goes to school than you should let them stay home.and than when you wake him or her up than say time to go to school and if him or her wines than give a treat like movies or there fave fast food place.

Yes, you can be contagious with chickenpox before symptoms occur.

The genus is Varicellovirus and the species is human herpesvirus 3, also known as varicella zoster virus.

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

Once you have been exposed to that virus, your body has memory cells that will respond very quickly. Actually, you can be attacked again but you will not get the disease again because these memory cells will destroy the virus.