Question 1

how long will my son be contagious with the chicken pox?

Accepted Answer

No less than a week : No less than a week from the first blister and up until the last blister has dried. They are often most contagious in their oral secretions in the day or so before they break out, but virus from the blisters can spread it too.

Question 2

how contagious is chicken pox?

Accepted Answer

Very: A non immune person exposed to someone with chickenpox has a 95% risk of acquiring the disease.The cpx patient is contagious from a day prior to breaking out until the sixth day.Their saliva, sneezes or the debris from blisters all can spread the disease.The average incubation is 14 days from exposure but the range is 10-21.As little as 1 hour in the same room with a case is considered an exposure.

Question 3

is atypical chicken pox contagious?

Accepted Answer

Confusing question: Some refer to an unusual pattern of blisters that may arise a week or so after the vaccine, or a vaccinated pt with an unusual outbreak months or years later as atypical. The name is not very specific but the condition is contagious.If it is the vaccine virus with a skin outbreak a week or so later, the vaccine virus could be spread. If it was a wild cpx outbreak the wild  virus rules apply.

Question 4

how long is chicken pox contagious?

Accepted Answer

Varies: Patients (usually children) are infectious to others for roughly 2 days before the blisters occur and then until the blisters have formed scabs covering them completely, about 4 to 5 days.

Question 5

how long is a baby contagious with his chicken pox?

Accepted Answer

Chickenpox: The communicability of chickenpox starts from 1-2 days before the rash and for about 7 days after the onset of the rash or until all blisters have formed scabs.

Question 6

what to do if i want to ask how long is chicken pox contagious?

Accepted Answer

About a week: Chickenpox tends to emerge in waves of new spots over a period of 2-5 days.The blister grows, pops ; crusts usually within a single day. A person is considered contagious for 1-2 days before to 6 days after the emergence of the rash.

Question 7

all my chicken pox were dried up and crusted. but i removed the others and still pinkish and did not wait for it to remove by itself. i'm i still contagious?

Accepted Answer

Chicken pox: "A person with chickenpox can spread the disease from 1 to 2 days before they get the rash until all their chickenpox blisters have formed scabs (usually 5-7 days)."  REF:  https://www.cdc.gov/chickenpox/about/transmission.html

Question 8

is shingles just as contagious as chicken pox?

Accepted Answer

No: Chickenpox can be passed by both airborn droplets in a cough and the debris from a leaking blister. Zoster does not involve a phaze with virus in your mucous so airborn spread is not likely;however, it can be passed by direct contact with the debris from leaking blisters.

Question 9

when is chicken pox not contagious anymore?

Accepted Answer

7 days: Chicken pox (varicella) is spread via two routes. Airborne spread through respiratory secretions and via contact with open lesions.  Patients are typically contagious a couple of days before the rash appears. This period continues for about 5 days after the rash or until the  lesions are no longer oozing.

Question 10

when the chicken pox has crusted over that means your not contagious anymore, but if you accidently scratch one off does it become contagious again?

Accepted Answer

Unlikely: The contagious period for cpx is considered the first week after eruptions start.By that point,the body has surrounded virus with antibodies and they go to the skin surface to die (in blisters)The early blisters do have contagious viral particles but most of what you would get pulling a scab off is just body serum, with no viral particles.It would be a reasonable precaution to wash/cover that area

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