How Many Times Can You Get Chickenpox?!


Question: How Many Times Can You Get Chickenpox!?
I want to know how many times you can get chickenpox, I heard only twice, but I want to make sure, because I have kids now, and I know they're gonna get them eventually!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com


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overall, when carefully studied, about 13% of chickenpox cases are actually SECOND cases!. see reference - study done in Antelope Valley, California, looking at all cases reported to Public Health in 1999!.

And let me be clear -- these are cases where people had full blown chicken pox once, then years later ANOTHER case of chicken pox (not to be confused with the very limited eruption of zoster, aka "shingles")!. So it is very well documented that second attacks of chicken pox occur!.

I have no data on how common third cases are!.

But it's clear that the old teaching of "infected once, so you can't get it again" just is not true!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Only once and your body will not get again but later in life you can get shingles from the chicken virus in your body if its triggered !. This stays in your body for life and can arise later and cause the shingles!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Only once!.
Once you get it, you have it forever pretty much, your just immune to it!.

just like a cold!.!.youll never have the same kind of cold more than once!.
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you usually get them once
but in rare cases some people get them twice! so once you get them there is little chance you'll end up getting them again!Www@Answer-Health@Com





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