Can you get chicken pox more than once?

Question

My friend asked this question during class, yea I know out of the picture, but I guess he REALLY needs to know.

Answer 1

Yes, after a person has chickenpox, the virus typically lives silently in the nervous system of the body for the rest of a person's life. It may reactivate (come to life again) at any time when the body's immune defenses are weakened by stress or illness (such as cancer or HIV infection) or by medications that weaken the immune system. The most common reason for the virus to reactivate is getting older. Reactivation of the virus causes a condition called shingles, a painful blistering skin rash that typically occurs on the face, chest or back, in the same area where one or two of the body's sensory nerves travel.*

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Chicken pox recurrence
Once infected with chicken pox a person is considered immune.
It is possible to a chicken pox infection more than once. It will be a mild outbreak and is called a breakthrough infection.
The re-activated virus will most likely cause shingles
http://www.thechickenpox.com/

There is one bright spot: After infection, the virus stays in your body for life, and you cannot contract chicken pox a second time.
http://www.parenthood.com/articles.html?article_id=3296

When a children have chicken pox, they run a fever and develop a rash that leaves them contagious for 5 to 7 days. In that time, the immune system mounts an attack resulting in the production of antibodies that help the cells of the immune system fight the infection. If these children are exposed to the chicken pox virus again, they do not develop the disease.
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072437316/student_view0/chapter48/answers_to_text_questions.html

Memory T-cells, that once were B and T cells, are the cells that remember each foreign antigen that ever entered the body. This is why you usually never end up getting the chicken pox a second time, because your Memory T-cells remember how to fight the pathogen off.
http://www.mansfieldct.org/schools/MMS/staff/szych/Immune%20System/Immune%20System%20PPT-Kasia,%20Ryan,%20Marti,%20Jeremy.ppt

Answer 4

Yes, you can ,but its rare. You'd have to of had very mild case the first time. I had them twice and the second time I got them it was severe. I even had the pox in my throat.

For others who have had a severe case, they can get shingles later on when exposed to the virus. This usually happens when they are exposed when they are under stress. This happened to my husband. He was getting laid off after working 19 years for a company. He knew he had only 2 months left to work there and was under stress going to work these lst couple of months. During these months he got exposed to the chicken pox virus and developed shingles.

Answer 5

Yes, you can also get shingles, a illness from the same virus, more than once or whether you have or have not had chicken pox.

Answer 6

No, once you have had chicken pox you are immune the "second" time it is a different strain and it is called shingles.

Answer 7

Yes, I had them twice and many people get them twice at least. Most likely when you are young, then the second time a few years later. The older you are, the worst they are. You catch them from people who have it surrounding you, and it's a bacterial infection I believe.




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Answer 8

There is a vesicular disease closely resembling chickenpox that occurs during a viral infection in patients who have had chickenpox. Herpes zoaster resembles chickenpox but is more localized. Contact with poisonous plants cause a vesicular rash also.

Answer 9

YES YOU CAN...IF YOU DID NOT HAVE A REALLY GOOD CASE OF THEM THE FIRST GO AROUND THEN YOU CAN CATCH THEM AGAIN.. THE SAYING IS THE 2ND TIME AROUND IS ALOT HARDER ON THE PERSON..SHINGLES ALSO DERIVES FROM CHICKEN POX..SO BE CAREFUL NOT TO MISS DIAGNOSIS THIS IF IT HAPPENS....

Answer 10

Yes you can. I speak from experience. The first time I was 10 and the second time I was 16 and that case was much worse.

Adults have to be careful not to get pneumonia as this can lead to death. My brother was 18 and was told by his doctor to be careful!