can you still get shingles if you had the vaccine?
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A. It's not really surprising that you got shingles after being vaccinated. No vaccine is 100 percent effective and while childhood vaccinations get close, the shingles vaccine only cuts the risk of shingles by half for people who receive it at age 60 or older.
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Talk with your health care provider to learn more. Some people who are vaccinated against chickenpox get shingles (herpes zoster) years later. This is much less common after vaccination than after chickenpox disease.
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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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seek advice from your rheumatology team – you may be able to have the shingles vaccine if you are on low-dose methotrexate. Pneumovax (which gives protection against the commonest cause of pneumonia) and yearly flu vaccines are safe and recommended. Can I drink alcohol while on methotrexate?
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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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It is safe to be around infants and young children, pregnant women, or people with weakened immune systems after you get the shingles vaccine. There is no documentation of a person getting chickenpox from someone who has received the shingles vaccine (which contains varicella zoster virus).
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A: Give Shingrix in a two-dose series, regardless of a whether a patient has had shingles or received Zostavax (zoster vaccine live) in the past. You should give the second dose of Shingrix 2 to 6 months after you gave the first dose.
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However, there are no documented cases of the varicella-zoster virus being transmitted from adults vaccinated with the shingles vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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You'll receive two separate doses of the vaccine. After you receive the first dose, you can get the second dose two to six months later. A healthcare provider will give you the injections in your doctor's office. Clinical studies have found Shingrix to be effective in preventing shingles.
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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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For convenience, the shingles vaccine will routinely be administered at the same time as the seasonal influenza vaccine. However some patients eligible for flu vaccine will be immunosuppressed and so should not be given the shingles vaccine.
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Even if they don't remember having had chickenpox, they should still get the shingles vaccine—it wouldn't give them chickenpox. There's a new and improved shingles vaccine (Shingrix), which is approved for people ages 50 and over, even for those who received thefirst shingles vaccine (Zostavax).
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Although chickenpox vaccines do contain a weakened version of the live virus, which can reactivate later in life and cause shingles, this is very rare, he said.
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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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Your risk of spreading the virus is low if you cover your shingle blisters. Once your blisters scab over, they're no longer contagious. There is a vaccine for shingles recommended for adults 50 years of age and older because your chance of getting shingles rises.
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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. Very rarely, a second case of chickenpox does happen.
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Risk factors Most people who have had chickenpox or have been vaccinated against chickenpox are immune to chickenpox. If you've been vaccinated and still get chickenpox, symptoms are often milder, with fewer blisters and mild or no fever. A few people can get chickenpox more than once, but this is rare.