Can you catch chicken pox twice in a life time?!


Question: Can you catch chicken pox twice in a life time!?
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Nope!. When you already had chickenpox or varicella, you form antibodies that protect you against further infection!. However there is a disease that looks like chickenpox but with quite painfull vesicles!. This is called herpes zoster or shingles!. The vesicles also have a tendency to align themselves along the distribution of a nerve!. It is caused by the reactivation of the same virus that caused your chickenpox!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

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Yes!. It is uncommon, but you can!. Also, if you have had chicken pox in your life, you can later have shingles!. It is a condition caused by the same virus as ch!. pox!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

yes you can!. if you only got a very mild case of the pox the first time your immune system may not have built up an immunity!.

and yes if you are immunosuppressed sometime later in life you can get a case of the shingles!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

yes, but usually in the form of shingles!.!.it's in the body foreverWww@Answer-Health@Com

A person usually gets only one episode of chickenpox!. Following primary infection there is usually lifelong protective immunity from further episodes!.
However the VZV (Varicella Zoster Virus)can lie dormant in the body for many years and can cause a very painful skin condition called shingles, usually later in life!.
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yes you may depending on the strength of the first time and your ( immune archive ) produced Ig's
and as you get older you may take it again in a different way but the same virus ; will be the HERPESWww@Answer-Health@Com

No , never heard of it !.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Yes, you can!. I had it as a child and again when I was 27!. Was very bad but luckily I got out of it with only 2 scares!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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