Please help me settle this once and for all. Can you get chicken pox more than o!
Question: I was told time and time again that once I got chicken pox, that would guarantee me immunity from the disease for the rest of my life.
Then there are a few people who tell me that I could get it again. Now I'm confused even though I believe that you could get it only once.
For the record, I did get the chicken pox when I was eight (got it from my cousin when he was three). I have also heard that parents have "chicken pox" parties for their kids and their friends so that their kids will get the illness as kids rather than as adults when it's worse.
Answers: I was told time and time again that once I got chicken pox, that would guarantee me immunity from the disease for the rest of my life.
Then there are a few people who tell me that I could get it again. Now I'm confused even though I believe that you could get it only once.
For the record, I did get the chicken pox when I was eight (got it from my cousin when he was three). I have also heard that parents have "chicken pox" parties for their kids and their friends so that their kids will get the illness as kids rather than as adults when it's worse.
You can get it more than once, though it's rare. As an adult you get a different version of it called shingles.
I had both chicken pox as a kid and shingles as an adult. Just for the record, it's not a terrible thing to get chicken pox as an adult, I coped with mine pretty well. The only risk of getting it as an adult is if you catch it in the first 3 months of pregnancy. Otherwise it doesn't harm you at all.
Yes you can get chicken pox more than once. Some people don't form an immunity to the disease or the vaccine no matter how many times they get it.
I had it twice when I was a kid. Chicken pox parties??? I guess they have good intentions but that sounds nutso.
Yes You can...
i think you can also catch measles as well as another case of chicken pox
i'll have to look that one up but the chicken pox thing..
definately
hope this helps :)
Yes you can get it twice and you can even get a form of it when you are older called "shingles". I personally think that a chicken pox party would be much better than injecting a lab created vaccine into a child. But for the record I am not against vaccination. haha.
Well, I've had it more than once.
I think it's if you don't get a bad dose the first time you can sometimes fail to build up enough immunity to prevent a second. My friend's kids had chicken pox and another friend sent his kids round to get it over and done with.
For the most part once a person has chicken pox, they won't get it again. However some people never build up the right antibodies and will get it again. I knew of a child who had it 5 times. Also -the varicella vaccine falls along the same line - it is not unheard of that a person who got the vaccine will develop chicken pox.
chrstnwrtr,
I provided this answer recently to a similar question, and I copy it here for you -
Chickenpox is caused by the Varicella-Zoster virus (VZV, a double stranded DNA herpesvirus). Both cell-mediated (Th1) and humoral (Th2) immune responses stop the virus replication (antibody alone does not guarantee total immunity). The most important immune response is the Th1 response which is cell mediated immunity (search and destroy the virus), but the precise laboratory markers of that immunity are unknown.This is why people with agammaglobulinaemia (no antibody production) usually have uncomplicated chickenpox, whereas people with defective cell-mediated (or search and destroy immunity) can die from chickenpox. When you have chickenpox, (Varicella-Zoster) the immune system deals with it, not by eradicating it