can i get shingles even if i had chickenpox?
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You can only get shingles if you've already had chickenpox. Shingles can develop in anyone who has had chickenpox. If you haven't had chickenpox but are exposed to someone with chickenpox or shingles, regardless of your age, you will develop chickenpox first.
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There is no documentation of a person getting chickenpox from someone who has received the shingles vaccine (which contains varicella zoster virus). Some people who get the shingles vaccine will develop a chickenpox-like rash near the place where they were vaccinated.
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You cannot get shingles from someone with shingles or chickenpox. But you can get chickenpox from someone with shingles if you have not had chickenpox before. When people get chickenpox, the virus remains in the body. It can be reactivated later and cause shingles if someone's immune system is lowered.
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You are not infectious before the blisters appear. Once the rash crusts, you are no longer infectious. VZV from a person with shingles is less contagious than the virus from someone with chickenpox. The risk of spreading the virus is low if you cover the shingles rash.
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How common is shingles? About one out of every three people in the United States who have had chickenpox will get shingles. More than one million cases of shingles are diagnosed every year. The risk of shingles increases as you get older, with about half the cases occurring in men and women ages 50 and older.
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You cannot get shingles from someone with chickenpox When people get chickenpox, the virus remains in the body. It can be reactivated later and cause shingles if someone's immune system is lowered. This can be because of stress, certain conditions, or treatments like chemotherapy.
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Yes. The same virus that causes chickenpox (the varicella-zoster virus) causes shingles. For some people who have had chickenpox, the virus can become active again later in life and cause a painful rash with blisters called shingles.
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“If a person has never had chickenpox or the chickenpox vaccine, coming into contact with the fluid in shingles blisters can result in the person becoming infected with the virus. This would cause the person to get chickenpox, not shingles. The body's first exposure to the virus leads to chickenpox.
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Most people who have had chickenpox will be immune to the disease for the rest of their lives. However, the virus remains inactive in nerve tissue and may reactivate later in life causing shingles.
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Shingles affects the nerves Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus — the same virus that causes chickenpox. Anyone who's had chickenpox may develop shingles. After you recover from chickenpox, the virus can enter your nervous system and lie dormant for years.
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If you have already had chickenpox, it's extremely unlikely that you'll get it again. But women who have come into contact with someone with chickenpox or shingles should see their GP if a rash develops.
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Anyone who's had chickenpox may develop shingles. After you recover from chickenpox, the virus can enter your nervous system and lie dormant for years. Eventually, it may reactivate and travel along nerve pathways to your skin — producing shingles.
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Shingles itself is not contagious. You can't spread the condition to another person. However, the varicella-zoster virus is contagious, and if you have shingles, you can spread the virus to another person, which could then cause them to develop chickenpox.
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Shingles cannot be passed from one person to another. The virus that causes shingles, varicella zoster virus (VZV) can spread from a person with active shingles and cause chickenpox in someone who had never had chickenpox or received chickenpox vaccine.
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The virus spreads easily from people with chickenpox to others who have never had the disease or never been vaccinated. The virus spreads mainly through close contact with someone who has chickenpox. The varicella-zoster virus also causes shingles.
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Because of this, shingles is also known as herpes zoster. But the virus that causes chickenpox and shingles is not the same virus responsible for cold sores or genital herpes, a sexually transmitted infection.
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This is a bit of a trick question. You can only get shingles if you've already had chickenpox. Shingles can develop in anyone who has had chickenpox. If you haven't had chickenpox but are exposed to someone with chickenpox or shingles, regardless of your age, you will develop chickenpox first.