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Shingles (disease) question

It's less contagious than regular chicken pox. I believe you need to have direct contact with the virus, where chicken pox spreads through the air.

Keep your distance and you might be alright.

Hope the GF is feeling better soon.
 
CharlesKozierok said:
It's less contagious than regular chicken pox. I believe you need to have direct contact with the virus, where chicken pox spreads through the air.

Keep your distance and you might be alright.

Hope the GF is feeling better soon.
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hoping my uber immune system takes care of me here. i deliberately throw everything at it just so i can build it up.
 
While she has fresh sores, or any sores aren't scabbed over and almost healed, it can be spread, but it requires contact. Anything she touches with a sore, don't touch that - and don't make contact with her sores.
 
destrekor said:
While she has fresh sores, or any sores aren't scabbed over and almost healed, it can be spread, but it requires contact. Anything she touches with a sore, don't touch that - and don't make contact with her sores.
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fuck...
 
Shingles vaccine is indicated for people over 50... if she has eruptions only over a localized area of her body (i.e. a strip or line over her back or abdomen) then she needs medical attention NOW.

EDIT: and you as well to be safe,
 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_zoster


Herpes zoster (or simply zoster), commonly known as shingles and also known as zona, is a viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with blisters in a limited area on one side of the body, often in a stripe. The initial infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV) causes the acute (short-lived) illness chickenpox which generally occurs in children and young people. Once an episode of chickenpox has resolved, the virus is not eliminated from the body but can go on to cause shingles—an illness with very different symptoms—often many years after the initial infection. Herpes zoster is not the same disease as herpes simplex despite the name similarity (both the varicella zoster virus and herpes simplex virus belong to the same viral subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae).
 
<---- board certified Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine for 20 yrs
First- shingles is very contagious, while a person has open sores they are shedding virus by respiratory droplets. You do not have to touch a lesion.
Second - in addition to avoiding adults that have never had the chickenpox or the vaccine (started giving it routinely to children about 1997), the most susceptable encounters are with pregnant females. If a fetus comes in contact, the mothers immune system may not prevent transmission, and intrauterine herpes zoster infections can lead to brain damage.
third- If I were you, I'd get a Varicella vaccine ASAP. If you get chicken pox - see a doctor to confirm the diagnosis and start anti-viral therapy. Unfortunately, there is no data to prove anti-viral therapy can prevent transmission, but if the disease starts it will be best to get on it asap.
 
The gawd-damned shingles vaccine shot is EXPENSIVE!

I checked with my doctor's office and the local pharmacies who offer vaccination clinics...all of them were in the $175 to $250 range...and was told that many insurance policies don't cover it. (check with your HR or insurance company)

My 64 year old neighbor broke out in shingles last summer while he was on a cruise to Alaska. Cost him over $1200 out of pocket. Cruise line didn't accept his insurance...but he got part of it back from his insurance company later.
 
Ive never had chicken pox and I got a blood test to make sure of it. No sign of the anti bodies but from reading about the risk of vaccine I decided against it. You can get pox and or die just from the vaccine.. F that!
 
BoomerD said:
The gawd-damned shingles vaccine shot is EXPENSIVE!

I checked with my doctor's office and the local pharmacies who offer vaccination clinics...all of them were in the $175 to $250 range...and was told that many insurance policies don't cover it. (check with your HR or insurance company)
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You old farts can't take chances. Git 'er done.


Aw, hell. Approaching old fart stage at the speed of light.:$
 
mattpegher said:
<---- board certified Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine for 20 yrs
First- shingles is very contagious, while a person has open sores they are shedding virus by respiratory droplets. You do not have to touch a lesion.
Second - in addition to avoiding adults that have never had the chickenpox or the vaccine (started giving it routinely to children about 1997), the most susceptable encounters are with pregnant females. If a fetus comes in contact, the mothers immune system may not prevent transmission, and intrauterine herpes zoster infections can lead to brain damage.
third- If I were you, I'd get a Varicella vaccine ASAP. If you get chicken pox - see a doctor to confirm the diagnosis and start anti-viral therapy. Unfortunately, there is no data to prove anti-viral therapy can prevent transmission, but if the disease starts it will be best to get on it asap.
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well i'm fucked.

thanks for the info.
 
wooo update, just talked to my mom and evidently I had chickenpox when I was so small I don't remember.

@mattpegher, does this change anything?
 
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