Chicken pox is generally known as the children’ s disease.
Adults can catch chicken pox as well, but usually only the ones that have not had chicken pox when they were children.
Doctors refer to chicken pox as varicella, which is a very contagious medical condition.
If you have contact with a person that has chicken pox, it will take about two weeks for you to get infected as well. This is known as the incubation period of chicken pox.
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After only a couple of days from infection, a rash will appear on your body. This is the incipient form of chicken pox. Afterwards, the rash turns into blisters, which in turn burst and ultimately scab over. Winter and spring are the most likely season to develop chicken pox.
Besides the rash that you get on your skin when suffering from chicken pox, there are also some other symptoms that might indicate that you have been infected. If you have a slight fever, for no apparent reason, or if you suffer from a headache, you can blame these conditions on chicken pox. If you have been infected with chicken pox, do not expect this disease to disappear in a few days. From the first signs of chicken pox, you will probably be sick almost a month. However, there are chicken pox cases where the patients will suffer no more than ten days. The usual chicken pox cases last about two and a half weeks.
The first sign of chicken pox, as I have mentioned earlier is a rash that appears on your skin. Your chest and the upper part of your back are the first places that the tiny and red spots will appear at first. If you are one of those people that suffer from a severe case of chicken pox, then your face and the extremities of your body will also be covered by the rash. These little spots will soon become blisters, which eventually form scabs. Scabs is the last stage of chicken pox.
There is more than one case for chicken pox.
The most common is a virus called herpes zoster. Because chicken pox is highly contagious, if you have contact with the blisters that are broken, you will get infected as well, that is of course, if you have not had chicken pox before.
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A weak immune system can also put you more at risk of developing chicken pox.
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Respected Sir/Madam,
please tell whether a little child of 4 years timely vaccinated,can suffer from chicken pox after coming in contact with a infected adult.
Unfortunately, the acquisition of immunity from vaccination is not 100% effective. The general theory behind this is the immune system has a memory, and when an innocuated (weakened) virus- which is what is in the vaccine being given- is administered, the body’s defences will fight it easily, and retain the memory of how to fight it in the future.
However, in some cases this isn’t what happens, and the vaccine is not effective (this is common in some hepatitis vaccines). There are titre tests you can take from a doc to determine whether you kiddlywink is immune or not though.
Very, super rarely and mainly in immunocomprimised people, the vaccination can actually cause an infection, if the body is really weak, or the viruses were improperly innocuated.
But … wouldn’t you rather your child get chicken pox now rather than when they’re in their teens?
Generally you can only get it once… in most cases
Hope this helps
we should always be very careful about getting hepatitis because this disease is very very dangerous and deadly :`”
i had a chickenpox when i was young at age 7 ang i had it again this month. The blisters got crust over and starts healing but the problem is around the chickenpox scars, there are small blisters comming out around it and very itchy. I had taken anti viral medicine and it’s been 2 weeks ago. I can say I am completely healed from chickenpox, but what about those small blisters coming out? does it mean i am not immune to the virus? pls help
To Shane: I wonder if you have the shingles. I have read that you can catch chicken pox twice, but usually it’s shingles. But you have itchiness, not pain.
hello!!
i am 20 m ,i came in contact with one of my friend yesterday who suffered from chicken pox a week ago.its been a week that the disease disappeared to her.do i get the disease ?? please reply me