Re: ckn pox and shingles
[email protected]
In a message dated 8/10/01 6:13:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
had shingles just recently, and she did have chickenpox as a child.
Renee
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[email protected] writes:
>I don't really know anything about the relationship, but I do know my niece
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> I always thought people who got shingles were those who did not have
> the
> chicken pox. My stepbrother had shingles in his late teens and I was told
> he
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had shingles just recently, and she did have chickenpox as a child.
Renee
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Castle Crawford
>I don't really know anything about the relationship, but I do know my niecehad shingles just recently, and she did have chickenpox as a child.<
Shingles is the dormant chicken pox virus that is still in your body. It can come out when your body is stressed. The theory is that if you can't get the pox, you can't get shingles.
Esther
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