Chickenpox

Chickenpox can be prevented . The easiest way to prevent catching chicken pox is to get vaccinated. However, vaccination is only successful in 70% to 90% of all vaccinations. Individuals who have been vaccinated but still acquire chickenpox, usually have a milder disease that heals more quickly than non vaccinated individuals.

Yes, you can shower or bathe when you have chickenpox. Many people find some relief from itching from baths.

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Calamine is safe and effective for patients with chickenpox. Many patients find it provides some relief from itching.

Once you get the chicken pox infection, the virus gets hidden in your posterior root ganglion. How does it evades the immune system is poorly understood. It comes out in the form of herpes zoster or shingles, when your immunity lowers down. There is no mutation of the virus.

You can get Chicken Pox from anywhere in the world. It is a highly contagious virus that usually affects children 12 and under.swiftwings1s comment: just to add,once you get chicken pox u are completely immune to it and cannot get it again!

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor. Smallpox localized in small blood vessels of the skin and in the mouth and throat.
In the skin it resulted in a characteristic maculopapular rash and, later, raised fluid-filled blisters. V. major produces a more serious disease and has an overall mortality rate of 30-35%.
Long-term complications of V. major infection include characteristic scars, commonly on the face, which occur in 65-85% of survivors. Blindness resulting from corneal ulceration and scarring and limb deformities due to arthritis and osteomyelitis are less common complications, seen in about 5% of cases.

The history of smallpox extends into pre-history; the disease likely emerged in human populations about 10,000 BC. The earliest credible evidence of smallpox is found in the Egyptian mummies of people who died some 3,000 years ago.
During the 18th century the disease killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans each year, including five reigning monarchs, and was responsible for a third of all blindness. Between 20 and 60% of all those infected, and over 80% of infected children, died from the disease.


During the 20th century, it is estimated that smallpox was responsible for 300-500 million deaths.

In the early 1950s an estimated 50 million cases of smallpox occurred in the world each year. As recently as 1967, the World Health Organization estimated that 15 million people contracted the disease and that two million died in that year.
After successful vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in December 1979. To this day, smallpox is the only human infectious disease to have been completely eradicated.

Simply don't watch anything which could scare you or make you worry or feel uncomfortable, and a good way to do it is to not eat snacks too late and defiantly not cheese. Also being around someone you feel safe with like family or guardians , sometimes the nightmare could be something that's happening in real life like bullying so its best to make the problem stop and then you wont get nightmares.Also some cultures believe that if you have a worry doll you can tell it your worry/nightmare and then put it under your pillow and it it will stop the nightmares... hope it helps! (sometimes you can get worry dolls in hawkins bazzar and if not you will have to keep a look out for them!)

The incubation period (the time from exposure to the disease to developing the first symptoms) is 14 to 16 days.

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.