Question 1

can children get chicken pox from shingles?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Chicken pox and shingles are due to the same virus (the zoster virus). If a child has no good immunity to the zoster virus (never caught chicken pox, is immunosuppressed, never got the vaccine, or got the vaccine but did not make enough antibodies) then he can get a case of chicken pox from the virus in the open skin lesions of the shingles patient.

Question 2

do people ever get shingles from chicken pox?

Accepted Answer

Get shingles: When a child has chickenpox  the virus remains inactive in the body forever.  Under some circumstances, it may be reactivated, such as compromised immune system, stress, illness or re exposure to chickenpox.   When reactivated, it presents as shingles.

Question 3

can i get shingles if iv never had chicken pox?

Accepted Answer

Shingles chickenpox: Some people get what is called subclinical chickenpox with very few or no blisters appearing on the skin, but they still had the infection. This infection can recur as shingles later on.

Question 4

can you get shingles without having chicken pox?

Accepted Answer

Shingles: No you can get shingles when you have dormant chicken pox virus in your body. Any form of stress can reactivate them.

Question 5

can someone get get shingles if not had chicken pox?

Accepted Answer

Shingles: Shingles or herpes zoster is caused by a reactivated chickenpox (varicella) virus that has gone dormant after the initial varicella infection.
So the answer to your question is no.

Question 6

can you get shingles when you have chicken pox shot?

Accepted Answer

Much much less: The advent of chickenpox vaccines in 1995 and more recently zostervax have reduced the incidence of zoster by about 90% since then.
The vaccines are still live-virus, but weakened viruses and so less likely to cause disease later on such as zoster...But we can't tell yet. So, odds are that you are about 90% less likely to get shingles with vaccines..Maybe more .

Good luck.

Question 7

can you get shingles if you have not had chicken pox?

Accepted Answer

Yes & no: If you are one of the few people in the world that never had chicken pox (proven by blood test) and never got the vaccine, you will never get shingles. However, you may have had it & never knew it (positive blood test) or got the vaccine. In both situations you can get shingles.

Question 8

if i didn't have chicken pox , can i still get shingles?

Accepted Answer

No: Are you sure you did not have chickenpox as a young child and do not remember? You doctor can check for antibodies to the chickenpox virus. If present that would indicate prior infection.

Question 9

do people get shingles if they've never had chicken pox?

Accepted Answer

No: Shingles is a 'rebirth' of the chicken pox virus. Your may have had a mild case of chicken pox and did not know it. You can have a blood test to have your antibody levels checked.

Question 10

is it possible to still get chicken pox if i had shingles?

Accepted Answer

Backwards issue: You don't get shingles unless you had chickenpox or the chickenpox vaccine in the past. Shingles is evidence that the immunity you developed to chickenpox was weakening & the germ came out of it's hiding place in your body in the form of a shingles eruption. That new infection will bolster your chickenpox immunity.

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