How do you know if you are getting chicken poxs?
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first u get to see small red eruptions all over the body, then u get high feaver,the eruptions become big and gets filled up with fluid inside ,u tend to itch all over  the body
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Could be spider bites, flea bites, chicken pox (if you haven't had them already.) I had a bunch of flea bites on me (my dog brought them in) and they did hurt when I took a shower, they started on my side and after one night I had them on my back, legs, stomache and chest.
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Yes, chicken pox is still around. And yes, there is a vaccination for the chicken pox, but you can still get the chicken pox even after you had the vaccination. It usually comes in a less invasive form...not so many and less ill. Chicken pox is VERY contagious. If a child gets the chicken pox, then they feel bad, but generally get over it rather quickly..7-10 days. If an adult acquires the chicken pox, they can become very ill and can have serious complications.
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A person infected with chickenpox can spread the virus before developing any symptoms. Chickenpox is most contagious from 2 to 3 days before the rash develops until all the blisters have crusted over.
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Office of Disease Prevention\n\nSHINGLES (herpes zoster)\n \n\n\n(This material is provided for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical care. Direct specific questions to your medical provider.)\n\nWhat is shingles?\nShingles is a localized infection due to the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox. It occurs only in people who have had chickenpox in the past and represents a reactivation of the dormant varicella virus. Why the virus reactivates in some individuals and not in others is unknown.\n\nWho gets shingles?\nThe disease is primarily seen in the elderly, but occasionally occurs in younger individuals. It affects both sexes and all races with equal frequency and occurs sporadically throughout the year.\n\nHow is shingles spread?\nA person must have already had chickenpox in the past to develop shingles. Contact with an infected individual does not cause another person's dormant virus to reactivate. However, the virus from a shingles patient may cause chickenpox in someone who has not had it before.\n\nWhat are the symptoms of shingles?\nThe first sign is often a tingling feeling on the skin, itchiness or a stabbing pain. After several days, a rash appears beginning as a band or patch of raised dots on the side of the trunk or face. It then develops into small, fluid-filled blisters which begin to dry out and crust over within a few days. When the rash is at its peak, symptoms can range from mild itching to extreme and intense pain. The rash and pain usually disappear within three to five weeks.\n\nHow soon after infection do symptoms appear?\nThe virus lies dormant in someone who has had chickenpox in the past. It can reactivate many years later.\n\nWhen and for how long is a person able to spread shingles?\nA person exposed to a patient with shingles will not get shingles but may get chickenpox. The virus is present at the site of the rash and is contagious for a week after the appearance of lesions (blisters).\n\nWhat are the complications associated with shingles?\nShingles is not usually dangerous to healthy individuals although it can cause great misery during an attack. Anyone with shingles on the upper half of their face, no matter how mild, should seek medical care at once. There is some danger that the virus could cause damage to the eye resulting in blindness. Complications are rare but may include partial facial paralysis (usually temporary), ear damage or encephalitis (inflammation of the brain).\n\nWhat is the treatment for shingles?\nMost cases of shingles resolve on their own without specific treatment. Two medications available for use by physicians in treating immunocompromised patients are vidarabine and acyclovir.\n\nWhat can be done to prevent the spread of shingles?\nChickenpox must be prevented in order to prevent shingles. A live attenuated viral vaccine against chickenpox was licensed in the U.S. in 1995 and is very effective (95% efficacy).\n\n \nChickenpox is an infection with a blistering rash, which is caused by the Varicella virus. This virus also causes shingles. \n\nCourse and Symptoms\nThe incubation period, the length of time from exposure to the virus to developing the condition, is two to three weeks. If someone in the house has chickenpox, the likelihood of someone else in the house catching it, who has not already had it, is as much as 90% ie 9 out of 10. \n\nChickenpox usually affects children and starts with a slightly raised temperature, and feeling under the weather, along with the development of red spots, mainly on the body and face. \n\nThe spots appear over a few days and progress from being red spots to forming blisters, which eventually burst, dry, and crust, ultimately to heal. The spots are very itchy, and if the child scratches and infects them they will leave scars. \n\nBy the time the spots have stopped forming and are dried over and the temperature has fallen back to normal, the child is no longer infectious. Usually
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Yeah you can still get chicken pox but a less severe form.
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Have you ever had chicken pox?\n\nThe lump is possibly a swollen lymph node. The human body has several lymph nodes throughout the body, one location would be in the area directly underneath the arm.\n\n\nCheck the rest of your body.....not for other lumps, but for a small cluster of red bumps that look like blemishes. Check your back also. If you have both of these symptoms, it's possible that you have shingles. (Shingles is merely a recurrance of Chicken pox, which is very minor, and will most likely go away without complications.) If you 1. have had chicken pox in the past, 2. have a sore lump in your armpit, and 3. find a small cluster of blemishes (which may even look like small pimples, and may also flake slightly), than you may possibly have a minor case of shingles. \n\nAfter a person has chicken pox, the virus never actually goes completely away, it merely becomes dormant, and stays in the human body, usually located within the spinal column. When the virus re-activates, it culminates in the syptoms I mentioned above, and the cluster of bumps (which doesn't get to far from the spinal cord, which is why i said check your back) is actually a small outbreak of chicken pox. Again, just keep your eyes open, and if the symptoms get worse, have it checked out.
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The only way to avoid getting the chicken pox is to have had them or to get the vaccine. There is no immunity to it that you can naturally build up. \n\nIt is way worse to get the chicken pox as an adult. It can even be fatal. In adults a different strain of the chicken pox is also known as shingles, which is also extremely itchy / painful and just as dangerous. \n\nIf you want to get the Varicella vaccine, you can go to your local health clinic or doctors office and request it. It will be a series of 2 shots since you are over 12 yrs old. I beleive they are spaced 3 or 6 months apart. \n\nI hope this helps. Good luck and God Bless!!!
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When the virus that causes chickenpox reactivates, it causes shingles. Early symptoms of shingles include headache, sensitivity to light, and flu-like symptoms without a fever. You may then feel itching, tingling, or extreme pain in the area where a rash is developing. Several days later, a belt-shaped or bandlike rash appears. This band of pain and rash is the clearest sign of shingles.The rash caused by shingles is more painful than itchy. The nerve roots that supply sensation to your skin run in pathways on each side of your body. When the virus becomes reactivated, it travels up the nerve roots to the bandlike area of skin supplied by those specific nerve roots. This is why the rash appears on only one side of your body, usually the chest or back, and sometimes on your face around one eye. It is possible to develop more than one bandlike rash on your body with shingles.You may reduce the duration and pain of shingles by:\n\nTaking good care of skin sores, such as not scratching blisters and keeping your skin clean. \nUsing medications as prescribed to treat shingles or postherpetic neuralgia, which is pain that lasts for at least 30 days after the shingles rash heals. \nUsing nonprescription pain medications, such as acetaminophen, aspirin, or ibuprofen, to help reduce pain during an attack of shingles or ongoing pain caused by postherpetic neuralgia. Call your health professional immediately if :\n\nAny sign of shingles develops (such as pain or changes in vision) that affects your forehead, nose, eye, or eyelid. \nAny symptoms of shingles develop (such as headache, stiff neck, dizziness, weakness, hearing loss, or changes in your thinking and reasoning abilities) that affect your central nervous system. \nSkin sores spread to parts of your body beyond the original area of the rash. \nYou think you have a bacterial skin infection in the same area as the shingles rash, or your rash has not healed in 2 to 4 weeks. \nYou develop pain in your face or are unable to move muscles in your face. The most common treatments for shingles include:\n\nAntiviral medications, such as acyclovir, famciclovir, or valacyclovir, to reduce the pain and the duration of shingles. \nNonprescription pain medications, such as acetaminophen, aspirin, or ibuprofen, which may help reduce pain during an attack of shingles. \nCorticosteroids, in combination with antiviral medication, to reduce pain and the duration of shingles. \nTopical antibiotics, applied directly to the skin, to stop infection of the blisters.
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It depends if they have the chicken pox vaccine. There is still a chance they may get chicken pox if they come in contact with someone with shingles. \n\nI know someone who had shingles and came in indirect contact with a child who had the vaccine...3 weeks later the child broke out with chicken pox.\n\nIt's safest to keep the person with shingles away from kids.
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Could be chicken pox's but I've never heard of anything that comes and goes. Measles, mumps, German measles...it could be a number of things. Your best bet would be to call her pediatrician in the morning and set up an appointment ASAP. It could be serious.
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This is the truth.  If you had chicken pox....after the rash heals, the varicella virus lays dormant in your body.  It will be there the rest of your life.  IF you get shingles, it is from the dormant virus--you didn't "catch" it from anyone.  And you are ONLY contagious to a person who has NEVER had chicken pox, which means you could give them chicken pox.....NOT shingles.  So, yes...it's true... You cannot get SHINGLES if you never had chicken pox.....but you can still get chicken pox at anytime in your life if you come in contact with it or shingles. \n\nOK?
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its too hard for anyone to give you a straight answer over the net withour seeing them, could be mosquitos or chicken pox or an allergy take her to the doctor and get proper advice
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YES.  diseases are becoming bigger and badder as we get older.  even if you were imunized as a child, a different strand could be out there and you could get it.  sad but true.  same with chicken pox.
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Hi, the incubation period for chicken pox to be infectious is prior to the rash and blisters developing. There is a small chance of being contagious with the fluid that is in the blister so is always better to stay away from people.\n\nThe stats are... if you havent been exposed to chicken pox before...and you visit someone that has active blisters...and lots (disseminated chicken pox).... you have an 85% chance of getting them yourself.\n\nChicken pox is both airborn transmission, and direct touch transmission.\n\nFrom a hospital standpoint, we isolate all people until the blisters have dried - this because of the small risk of transmission... to the many immunosuppressed people that are in hospital.\n\nIf someone is on medication for the blisters then the infectiousness is very minimal.\n\nI recommend anyone getting the vaccination. As an adult contracting chicken pox is life threatening
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Shingles is NOT contagious.However, although shingles is not contagious, contact with a person with shingles could lead to chicken pox in someone who has never had chicken pox and has not received the varicella vaccine.\n\nShingles is not a new infection; rather, it is a second outbreak of the chicken pox virus. Some of the virus germs that cause chicken pox stay in the body, remaining inactive in the nerve cells near the spine for many years. Then the herpes zoster virus suddenly wakes up from the dormant state and grows. Once active, the germs travel along the nerve paths to the skin, leaving a path of destruction along the nerves in which they travel. The result is the pain and rash of shingles.
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Use Aveeno oatmeal bath powder and bath/shower oil for bathing.It helps with the itching;unfortunately there is nothing that prevents some scaring from happening.\n\nAdults can contract chicken pox.There is a vaccine availablefor those who have never contracted the disease.If a person has had chicken pox,they are more apt to be vulnerable to develop Shingles in later life,since the body harbors the chicken pox virus for life(these are both forms of the herpes virus).