Can you only catch shingles if you have not had chicken pox?

Question

Grandmother has shingles, she lives with my inlaws and we are over there several times a week. I think all of our children are small enough that they have received the chickenpox vaccine. Oldest child is 8 and had chickenpox under the age of 2. How can shingles be transmitted? Can they ONLY be transmitted to people who have NOT had chickenpox? Serious responses only please. Need info. asap! Thank you in advance!

My main question should have been can the children get chickenpox from grandmother's shingles if they have already had the vaccine for chicken pox?

Answer 1

shingles occurs when the herpes zoster virus manifests outside the dorsal root ganglion due to factors unknown by doctors (may be physical/emotional stress factors)....therefore getting chickenpox(herpes zoster) ALWAYS PRECEDES a shingles outbreak!!!! therefore...avoid getting the chickenpox(herpes zoster) virus...keep the kids away when there is a shingles outbreak...small chance of picking up chicken pox though...

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

In my thoughts Shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox. The virus goes dorment in the spinal cord after a case of chickenpox and MAY reactivate years later ....if ever. People who develop shingles but have 'never had chickenpox' likely had a subclinical case of chickenpox ,i.e. two or three pox that was not realized as chickenpox. Shingles are not transmitted . it is reactivaion of an old infection of the same virus. Rarely someone with shingles can shred the virus to cause chickenpox to a newborn or immunocompromised person or rarely to that unusual adult who did not have case of chickenpox as a child but not the other way around. Talk to your doctor. Someone DOES NOT catch the shingles.

Answer 5

While it is the same infection, not everyone who gets chicken pox gets shingles and not everyone who has shingles has had chicken pox. It is a herpes infection that attacks the nervous system.

I've had both. Shingles is generally not infectious. Chicken pox is. I know that sounds silly, but the only time a person who has the infection can spread it is when they have chicken pox. Shingles can affect either side of the body or both. Usually once you've had it you won't get it again.

Answer 6

hi
shingles is only contagious to those who have not had chicken pox, the vaccine does not prevent them, only makes you have a less severe case. When you have chicken pox, which is a herpes virus, it settles next to your spinal column, stress whether its physical, emotional etc. can bring on shingles, Shingles break out on the inflamed nerve. they are also very painful,and can take several weeks to heal. it is contagious during the blister stage, the same as chicken pox.
hope this helps you, Pat

Answer 7

Shingles is a localized infection due to the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox. It occurs only in people who have had chickenpox in the past and represents a reactivation of the dormant varicella virus. Why the virus reactivates in some individuals and not in others is unknown.

I took it from "south Dakota department of health".
Good luck.

PS : I see your add : my answer would be "yes, off course your kids can get singles/herpes zooster from grandmother, eventhough they've been vaccine". Chicken pox only happen once in lifetime, but herpes zooster could happen again n again.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Only people who have NEVER had chickenpox can get shingles from someone. If you have had chickenpox then you won't get shingles from someone else. You may at some point in your life develop shingles yourself but not from being exposed to it.

Answer 10

Yes.