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. A person with chickenpox is considered contagious beginning 1 to 2 days before rash onset until all the chickenpox lesions have crusted scabbed.
Vaccinated people who get chickenpox may develop lesions that do not crust. These people are considered contagious until no new lesions have appeared for 24 hours.
CDC strongly recommends against hosting or participating in these events. Chickenpox can be serious and can lead to severe complications and death, even in healthy children. So it is not worth taking the chance of exposing your child to someone with the disease.
The best way to protect infants and children against chickenpox is to get them vaccinated. The varicella-zoster virus also causes shingles. After chickenpox, the virus remains in the body dormant.
Unlike chickenpox, shingles are not spread through droplets. You typically have to have direct contact with the shingles blisters for it to be contagious. That makes it much easier to avoid getting sick , which is important if you have shingles and your child is too young to get vaccinated and protected with a chickenpox vaccine.
In general, if someone has shingles and can keep all of the zoster lesions well covered, then children won't have direct contact with them and shouldn't be at much risk. Of course, the best way to avoid getting chickenpox is to simply get vaccinated with the chickenpox vaccine.
Some people worry about the safety of the chickenpox vaccine, though, and wonder if it's responsible for the surge in shingles cases or a shingles epidemic. This speculation is simply another anti-vaccine myth that is used to scare parents away from vaccinating their kids and protecting them against vaccine-preventable diseases.
The trend in rising shingles cases in adults began before we started vaccinating children in the United States. Plus, the trend in rising shingles cases in adults exists in other countries that do not routinely give kids the chickenpox vaccine. If you have had chickenpox and you're interested in protecting yourself, there are two shingles vaccines are available. In the U. People who have not had chickenpox can catch the varicella-zoster virus if they have close contact with a person who has shingles.
According to the CDC, "The virus that causes shingles, varicella zoster virus, can spread from a person with active shingles and cause chickenpox in someone who had never had chickenpox or received chickenpox vaccine. The most common way to get chickenpox is "by touching or breathing in the virus particles that come from chickenpox blisters," you also can get chickenpox "through tiny droplets from infected people that get into the air after they breathe or talk.
Although you should still take steps to avoid contact with the shingles blisters, someone who has had chickenpox or two doses of the chickenpox vaccine should be well protected if they have to be around someone with shingles. Here are some additional things you should know about the contagiousness of shingles. If your child is exposed to someone with shingles, whether or not they have been vaccinated, watch them for the development of chickenpox blisters over the next 10 to 21 days—the incubation period for chickenpox.
Although complications from chickenpox are rare, infants, adolescents , and pregnant women are all at risk of complications if they get a serious case of chickenpox.
Some of complications associated with chickenpox include:. Sometimes complications can become so severe that the person will need to be hospitalized. Chickenpox can even lead to death in healthy people. For instance, according to the Centers for Disease Control CDC , many healthy adults who died from chickenpox got the disease their unvaccinated children.
Typically, children get their first dose of chickenpox vaccine they are 12 to 15 months old. The second dose of the chickenpox vaccine can be given any time, as long as it is at least three months after the first dose, but it is typically given when kids are 4 to 6 years old, just before they start kindergarten.
When it comes to shingles and chickenpox, the best way you can protect your child is to ensure you're following the immunization schedule your child's pediatrician recommends. If someone in your family does end up with shingles, the vaccination should protect them from developing any serious complications. That said, if you're pregnant or if your child is too young to be vaccinated be sure you exercise caution and limit their exposure until the person no longer has shingles.
You can catch chickenpox by being in the same room as someone with it. It's also spread by touching clothes or bedding that has fluid from the blisters on them.
Chickenpox is infectious from 2 days before the spots appear, until they have all crusted over — usually 5 days after they first appeared. It takes 1 to 3 weeks from the time you were exposed to chickenpox for the spots to start appearing. It's rare to get chickenpox when you're pregnant, and the chance of it causing complications is low.
If you do get chickenpox when you're pregnant, there's a small risk of your baby being very ill when it's born. Speak to a GP if you have not had chickenpox and have been near someone with it. You can get the chickenpox vaccine on the NHS if there's a risk of harming someone with a weakened immune system if you spread the virus to them.
For example, a child can be vaccinated if 1 of their parents is having chemotherapy. You can also pay for the vaccine at some private clinics or travel clinics. You can catch chickenpox from someone with shingles if you have not had chickenpox before.
When you get chickenpox, the virus stays in your body.
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