2006-11-21 03:38:17 · 6 answers · asked by mom of 7 4 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
They are actually contagious 2 weeks before you notice you have them. That's why so many kids get them.
2006-11-21 03:46:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicken pox is contagious after a week of having it, when all the scabs is drying out.
2006-11-23 00:54:16 · answer #2 · answered by linda c 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it extremely is a virulent disease pronounced as varicella and that's amazingly contagious. it extremely is unfold by utilising skin touch, airborne touch and inhaled. The incubation (time it takes from touch to ailment) is 10-21 days and you're contagious for as much as two days in the past you smash out in lesions (hen pox) and until the pox are healed thereafter. there is now a vaccine for chickenpox so finished scale outbreaks are not very consumer-friendly in maximum progressed international places anymore. I had it as a toddler and might inform you it itches like sin. in case you do contract it, Aveeno oatmeal baths can help besides as Aveeno lotion. yet in general, you only ought to attend it out and attempt to no longer scratch.
2016-11-25 22:49:40 · answer #3 · answered by knaus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cleverly, the week before the spots appear, so that it will affect as many people as you get close to if they haven't already had it. Most people think you're contagious when you can see the spots, but that just means the virus is leaving your system.
2006-11-21 03:41:19 · answer #4 · answered by pniccimiss 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From a few days (2 to 4) before the illness starts till all the lesions are scabbed.
2006-11-21 04:19:05 · answer #5 · answered by yakkydoc 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
While the carrier still has a fever and up until they scab.
2006-11-21 03:40:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋