Question 1

my child has chickenpox, so will i catch shingles from her chickenpox?

Accepted Answer

No: Shingles is a condition where the zoster virus emerges from hibernation in one of your nerve roots. It travels down the nerve and exits in the distribution of that nerve where it causes pain, blisters and skin sensitivity. The only way you get shingles is to have had chickenpox in the past. This virus hibernates, you are not rid of it when the chicken pox passes.U can get CP if u never had it.

Question 2

i have shingles on my face and wondering if kissing my wife who has had chickenpox before can catch shingles from me from kissing.

Accepted Answer

No: Shingles is a reactivation of Herpes Zoster virus which has lain dormant in your own nerve cells.A person w/ shingles cannot 'transmit' shingles to someone else who has already had chicken pox. They can, however, infect someone who has never had chicken pox - but the result will be chicken pox, not shingles. Wash well &amp; take appropriate precautions to protect people who've never had pox or vaccine

Question 3

if i had a weak immune system, could i get shingles from someone who has chickenpox?

Accepted Answer

No: You get shingles from a reactivation of prior chickenpox. This may occur if your immune system is weak, but not from an external exposure to cpx.

Question 4

please tell me, could you with a weak immune system get shingles from someone who has chickenpox?

Accepted Answer

No: But you could get chickenpox if you never had it. Once you have it then you are at risk of shingles in the future.

Question 5

can you tell me how high are my chances of developing chickenpox from someone with shingles?

Accepted Answer

Rare but possible: The shingles patient can only spread the germ through contact with the debris, not through saliva or a cough as would be the case with chickenpox.Also, at a listed age of 50, your chance of never having Cpx as a kid are less than 4%, even if you don't remember it. A simple blood test could prove you once had Cpx and are immune.

Question 6

do i have chickenpox or is it shingles?

Accepted Answer

Location/spread ??: Chickenpox is a body wide infection with varicella virus that has come to the skin surface at the end of the prodrome period. The pox come out in crops of new blisters of various size & stage over a 5-7 day period. Shingles is the return of the varicella virus from hibernation in a nerve and limits its pain & blistering to the area of skin supplied by the nerve.

Question 7

what is the disparity between chickenpox and shingles?

Accepted Answer

Primary vs return: Chickenpox is the primary infection of a patient by the wild varicella virus.It has an incubation phase, a blood phase, is spread in saliva and in material from the spots all over. After the primary infection it goes into hibernation in nerve clusters along the spinal cord. It can emerge from hibernation years later as a localized outbreak shingles.Then, only debris from the spots has the virus.

Question 8

what is the difference between chickenpox and shingles?

Accepted Answer

Location: Chickenpox describes a generalized illness where the virus has circulated thru the body and comes to the skin surface as a later stage. On the skin surface the blisters come up and have living virus in them. Zoster is a reactivation of the virus from its hiding place in a nerve root and its physical location is limited to the skin area supplied by that nerve.The virus is the same.

Question 9

do people ever get shingles if they never had chickenpox?

Accepted Answer

No: Theoretically - no! but most people have had chickenpox w/out knowing it, so don't be surprised to develop them in your life.

Question 10

i have never had chickenpox before yet i have shingles... how?

Accepted Answer

Can happen: You were exposed to the virus, you probably had a subclinical infection, but you were infected, and the virus remained dormant in your body, flared up when it had the chance and you developed  shingles, hopefully it will be mild and you won't have it again

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If i had a weak immune system, could i get shingles from someone who has chickenpox?

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