Your Questions About Shingles

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Shingles results from the varicella zoster virus that gets left behind in one’s body after having the chicken pox, which is caused by the same virus. After recovering from chicken pox the virus stays behind in nerve cells by your spinal cord and may reactivate the virus many years later. That reactivation is the shingles. If you have never had the chicken pox, you will never get the shingles either. You cannot spread shingles from person to person, however, if you have never had the chicken pox its a good idea to stay away from someone with the shingles because through skin to skin contact that person (with shingles) can cause you to get the chicken pox. Of course, then many years later, you are at risk to get shingles as well.

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Yes it is if you rub up on someone put the person can wher long clothing and everything but, yes they are contagious.

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Yes, shingles is contagious. Shingles can be spread from an affected person to children or adults who have not had chickenpox. But instead of developing shingles, these people develop chickenpox. Once they have had chickenpox, people cannot catch shingles (or contract the virus) from someone else. Once infected, however, people have the potential to develop shingles later in life.
Shingles is contagious to people that have not previously had chickenpox, as long as there are new blisters forming and old blisters healing. Once all of the blisters are crusted over, the virus can no longer be spread

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Shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox. People with shingles are contagious to persons who have not had chickenpox and, therefore, those people, who have not had chickenpox, are at risk of getting chickenpox if they touch or contact a person with shingles. However, you cannot catch shingles itself from someone else. Please consult your doctor for more information.

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Shingles – Cause
Shingles is a reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus, a type of herpes virus that causes chickenpox. After you have had chickenpox, the virus lies inactive in your nerve roots and remains inactive until, in some people, it flares up again. When the virus becomes active again, you get shingles instead of chickenpox.

Anyone who has had even a mild case of chickenpox can get shingles. People who have a weak immune system are vulnerable to reactivation of the virus that causes shingles. Many factors can weaken your immune system, including aging, injury, and illness. Some medicines slow down the immune system. For example, medicines that destroy cancer cells (chemotherapy) can interfere with the immune system.

Transmission
Exposure to shingles will not cause you to get shingles. But if you have not had chickenpox and you are exposed to shingles, you can get chickenpox. Someone with shingles can potentially expose you to chickenpox if you come into contact with the fluid in the shingles rash blisters.

One study reports that the virus that causes shingles may be released into the air from shingles sores. Covering the shingles sores with a type of dressing that absorbs fluids and protects the sore (hydrocolloid dressing, such as DuoDerm) appears to effectively contain the virus.2