What are the chances of getting chicken pox for a second time as an adult?
483020
I have never heard anyone around me having it twice. And according to wikipedia,\n\n"Chickenpox has a two-week incubation period and is highly contagious by air transmission two days before symptoms appear. Therefore, chickenpox spreads quickly through schools and other places of close contact. Once someone has been infected with the disease, they usually develop protective immunity for life. It is fairly rare to get the chickenpox multiple times, but it is possible for people with irregular immune systems. As the disease is more severe if contracted by an adult, parents have been known to ensure their children become infected before adulthood."
1063620
If your mother already had chicken pox, then you visiting isn't a problem.  If she hasn't, yes, you could feasibly pass it on through close contact.  Regardless, when you do visit, wash your hands thoroughly prior to entering her room, and avoid close contact if possible.\n\nAlso, do not bring your son anywhere near the hospital.  Regardless of your mother's condition, he could make other patients, staff, and/or visitors very ill.
805267
Unfortunately...yes. When we get chicken pox, our body produces antibodies that gives us protection from another attack. But this immunity only last for about 10-15 years. So it is possible to get repeated attacks in a lifetime. \n\nTake note that once we get chicken pox the virus actually stays with us...in our spinal cord. The virus doesnt do anything if we are healthy but if our immune system is down...it will manifest itself as another disease called shingles. It does not look like chicken pox. It usually appears as painful rashes on one part of the body and requires antiviral treatment to cure it.\n\nHope that helps!
212342
You probably shouldn't worry, especially if you didn't break the skin, (but if it has been more than ten years since you've gotten a tetanus shot, then you should get another, just to be on the safe side).\n\nThere is a chance that you could get tetanus and the chance is 1-2%.  Not huge, but hey, somebody's gotta make up that 1-2% or it wouldn't be there.  It helps if your immune system's in order and working correctly.
465986
I know someone who had it 3 times--and each time was pretty bad.  He is a very rare case though!  If you even THINK you may have it, stay away from people like infants and the elderly--you may be contagious and you do not want to give it to someone who has a compromised immune system!
213311
The effect of MMR (and many other vaccinations also) diminish after a certain period. The effective duration of MMR vaccination is about 10 years or more. For children, the risk of catching measles after MMR is rare.\nRecovering from chicken pox, however, should allow the body to retain enough immunity against chicken pox, so chicken pox is  one-time thing. Moreover, chicken pox in adults are nearly asymptomatic.
577715
its very rare for children to get chicken pox after being vaccinated.. It is contagious and so, the child should not go to school. The pox will eventually disappear in few days or so. Should go for a medical check up before letting the child go back to school
60263
I'm a physician assistant and have an answer for you.\nShingles is a virus that is also a part of the chicken pox virus. When you are young you get chicken pox, when you are old you get shingles from the same virus. Unfortunately, your doctor is right, it can't be cured. It comes about in times of stress and is pretty painful. There is a medication called Acyclovir that can prevent the outbreaks before they get bad. Usually you begin taking the mediation when you feel an episode come on (tingling sensation or mild pain where the outbreak is going to occur) and it prevents the outbreak from progressing to a painful situation. If i were you, i would ask your doctor or Physician Assistant about Acyclovir. We prescribe it frequently for people with exactly the same problem. hope that helped!
891991
I don't know if this helps.  It IS confusing to figure out how it might happen that you would be exposed 16 years ago and just now have an outbreak.  That doesn't seem possible.  However, it is possible to be infected 16 years ago and never have had a primary or recurrent outbreak.\n\nWhat Happens\n\nYou can become infected with genital herpes when the herpes simplex virus (HSV) enters the body through sexual or other direct contact with herpes sores. HSV infections cannot be cured. Once you are infected with HSV, the virus remains in your body for the rest of your life. Many people do not develop symptoms and thus are unaware that they have the virus.\n\nFirst-time (primary) outbreak\n\nThe incubation period—the time from exposure to genital herpes until the primary outbreak of infection—is 2 to 14 days. The entire body may be affected, causing you to feel as though you have the flu. Blisters appear around the genitals or anus or in the area where the virus entered the body. The blisters break within a few days and become painful, oozing sores. The sores usually heal within 3 weeks (without treatment) and do not leave scars. Sores that occur in women usually take longer to heal than sores that occur in men.\n\nRecurrent outbreak\n\nAfter the primary outbreak, the herpes simplex virus remains in the nerve cells below the skin in the area where the sores first appeared. The virus stays in the nerve cells but becomes dormant, causing no symptoms. In most people, the virus becomes active from time to time, traveling from the nerve cells to the skin and causing repeated blisters and sores (recurrent outbreaks). \n\nSores from recurrent outbreaks usually heal faster and are less painful than those from the primary outbreak. People report that certain factors such as stress, illness, new sex partners, or menstruation may trigger recurrent outbreaks.\n\nAbout half of the people who have recurrent outbreaks of genital herpes feel an outbreak coming a few hours to a couple of days before it happens. They may feel tingling, burning, itching, numbness, tenderness, or pain where the blisters are going to appear. This is called the prodrome.\n\nPeople who have symptoms average five outbreaks per year during the first few years. Most have fewer outbreaks after that. The pattern of recurrent outbreaks—how often genital herpes infections return and how long outbreaks last—varies greatly. Some people have many outbreaks each year while others have only a few or none at all.\n\nGenital herpes infections caused by HSV-1 recur less frequently than those caused by HSV-2.
468566
It might take about a fortnight or a month.Some serious ones can take about 3 fortnights.My friend got a severe Chicken pox and it took 2 months for it to cure.
76596
I don't think so, you can't catch shingles from someone, but if you did get shingles, you could give the Chicken Pox to someone who never had them
982062
when i had them i was told that the spread by contact, using stuff that the patient has used and even getting too close to the sick person.\n\nHope you get better soon.\njust remember to NOT scratch or the pox will leave scars forever like they did to me. 2 on arms and 1 on foot.
456751
Once you have chickenpox, you are considered immune; you will not have a serious infection again, but you may have a mild infection (called a breakthrough infection). Generally, if the virus becomes active again, it will not result in chickenpox but can cause shingles, or herpes zoster.
320788
It is estimated that children actually encounter and develop immunity to approximately 100 different viruses each year, most of which are subclinical.  Depending on your child's constitution, they may exhibit some minor symptoms such as you describe.  Then a few times a year, they may really get sick with one or more of the new viruses.  \n\nBTW, the number of viruses that adult encounter/develop immunity to is not much less than children.
261787
No, I don't believe so.  You can only have shingles after you've had the chicken pox virus.  I'd have it checked out immediately though.  There's so many things it could be!
363255
It's possible, especially if he sneezed or coughed around you. Just because you recently had an illness doesn't mean that you can't get it again, even soon afterward. This is partly because there are many strains of viruses out there. Your body might have fought something very similar to what your friend got, but that doesn't mean you'll be immune.
606635
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.