chicken pox

[debzmcg82]

can you catch chicken pox twice?

[nigella]

It is possible but highly unlikely. People with immune problems are at an elevated risk of catching it a second time. once you've been infected you are considered immune but a milder infection of chicken pox may be caught which then causes shingles.

[kwicky]

Chicken Pox leaves the sufferer with Herpes at some later date.

[chazza]

Herpes is nothing to do with chicken pox! Herpes is the same virus that causes cold sores, which is unrelated to the chicken pox/shingles one

[kwicky]

http://www.aocd.org/skin/dermatologic_diseases /shingles.html

[nigella]

chicken pox IS related to herpes!

[nigella]

Check this if you still dont believe!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3022525

[ummmm]

Yes you can

[joanne8546]

I've had it 3 times. Once as a child and twice in the past 5 years. (I'm 29)

[purplecarrot]

Glad someone mentioned this. I was always under the inpression "Once a chicken, always a chicken" (just made it up) I will be more careful in future.

[clairey-s]

you can also catch shingles after having chicken pox. they say its not contagious but myself, my neighbour, her sister and her sisters husband all had it within a month so....

anyway its no fun =)


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