Can You catch the chickenpox twice?

Question

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Answer 1

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.

I'm the only one that provided a source...lol...some people need to read the question.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Normally when you have chickenpox you develop an antibody which prevents you fron catching it again. However there are exceptions, my mother had it three times and it almost killed her. Having had chickenpox does not make you immune to shingles, which is a more severe form of the illness that adults can get.

Answer 4

No, but later on in life you can get shingles. Shingles is the result of infection by the herpes zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox. During an attack of chickenpox the virus may find it's way to the root of a nerve in the brain or spinal cord. It lies dormant there, often for many years, until it is reactivated.

Answer 5

Yes, but not really. The virus (called varicella zoster virus) hides in your nerve once you recover from the primary infection (i.e. chickenpox). After several years, if your body defenses become sub-optimal (e.g. severe illness, AIDS, intake of immunosuppressants like steroids, organ transplantation, and even old age), the virus becomes "active" and travels down the nerve and produce blisters on the skin area supplied by the nerve. It is more localized than chickenpox and is called shingles.

Answer 6

Yes. If your first catch was minor, and did not serve to fully develop the antibodies, then you can re-catch it.

My sister got it, but a mild case - when we were about 5 and 6 years old. I got it but good. I gave it back to her. They thought she had contracted the measles and was going to give me a shot. I was scared, but the doctor looked at her again and diagnosed chicken pox a second time.

I remember that, because of the trauma of the possible shot.

Answer 7

Yes, if you are not vaccinated properly against it. Normally, the patients are given medicines and vaccinations against this. So, once the body has proper immune system working upon getting the vaccination, it is unlikely that you will catch it twice.

Answer 8

sure, even with the incontrovertible fact that it does not take place very oftentimes. oftentimes you purely get chickenpox as quickly as yet later in life you may get shingles. fowl pox is a variety of the herpes virus and as quickly as you had fowl pox the virus lays dorment on your physique then later durning severe ranges of rigidity or whilst your immune device is vulnerable it resurfaces as shingles. no longer actual everyone that has fowl pox gets shingles in a protracted time its oftentimes the human beings with the extra serious circumstances of fowl pox that gets it. oftentimes human beings get shingles after age 40 even with the incontrovertible fact that it may take place at any age. i might take her to the Dr. he can permit you recognize whether it quite is a uncommon case of fowl pox the 2d time around. it quite is risky to be around somebody with fowl pox or shingles whilst pregnant so ask you Dr. what precautions you may desire to take.

Answer 9

The virus causing chicken pox also causes shingles and this can occur in patients who have had chicken pox. There is another disease that occurs with an infection in a patient who has had chicken pox with identical blisters. It has a long name of skin diseases, but is not chicken pox.

Answer 10

Yes, but the second time it is called the 'Shingles' and it hurts like helll