If you have had chickenpox, you were infected with the varicella zoster virus.
In the past, nearly every child would become infected by the time they were an adult. Now we have a vaccine that protects against chickenpox. When you recover from chickenpox, the virus ‘hides out’ in nerve cells and stays dormant (inactive).
Yes, but the infection spread is chickenpox, not shingles. You can catch chickenpox from somebody.
Who has shingles if you are not already immune. Shingles is the late result of chickenpox infection.
The shingles blisters contain a live virus. If you have never had chickenpox and make direct contact with an open blister or something with the fluid on it, you can contract the virus and develop chickenpox.
A person with shingles is only infectious when the blisters appear, and until the blisters have all developed crusts. It is possible to get shingles more than once.
Shingles most commonly affects one side of the body, but it can occur on one side of the face. In rare cases (usually in people with weakened immune systems), the rash may be more widespread on the body and look similar to rash.
Shingles typically affects older people. It can also occur in healthy younger persons and even in children. Those whose immune systems have been weakened by cancer, HIV infection, AIDS, or treatment with certain medicines are also at increased risk of getting shingles.
- Anyone who has had chickenpox is at risk of getting shingles later in life. About 1 in 3 people who have not been immunised against chickenpox or shingles will get shingles in their lifetime.
- Shingles usually affects older people. The older you are if you get shingles, the higher your risk of getting serious disease. People who have a weakened immune system are also at risk of getting more severe disease, even if they are young.
- Women have a higher risk of getting shingles than men.
- Most people who develop shingles have only 1 episode during their lifetime. However, you can have shingles more than once.
An attack of shingles during pregnancy will not harm the unborn baby. The mother is already carrying the varicella zoster virus before developing shingles and there is no increase in the risk of passing it on to the fetus if shingles develops. However, an สมัคร ufabet กับเรา รับโบนัสทันที attack during pregnancy can be serious and requires urgent medical attention.