[Angel0412]

It is about how many days it can take after being exposed to chicken pox

[Angel0412]

How long does it take before you our contagous after getting the chicken pox

[Angel0412]

How do you tell the difference between poison Ivy and chicken pox ?

[Alty]

Here, let me Google that for you.

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&...zSM8sSDTCWf8BQ

"A person with chickenpox is infectious one to two days before the rash appears. They remain contagious until all lesions have crusted over (this takes approximately six days). Immunocompromised patients are contagious during the entire period as new lesions keep appearing. Crusted lesions are not contagious."

[Angel0412]

What other sytoms can accure when you have the chicken pox ? Example Can you get a ear ach ? When can the itching and fever start ? On the first day can it just be red spots and no fever ? Are chicken pox different sizes ?

[Angel0412]

How long can chicken pox last and when are you not contagous anymore ?

[Angel0412]

I need to know what the doctors would recommend to use if your child has chicken pox and what the doctors would prescibe for chicken pox?

[Alty]

Read the link I posted.

[Angel0412]

If my parents are 60 years old can't they easily get the shingles if around a child that has chicken pox ? Shouldn't they not come around someone with chicken pox until person with pox is better ?

[Alty]

Chickenpox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"If oral acyclovir is started within 24 hours of rash onset it decreases symptoms by one day but has no effect on complication rates. Use of acyclovir therefore is not currently recommended for immunocompetent individuals (i.e. otherwise healthy persons without known immunodeficiency or on immunosuppressive medication). Children younger than 12 years old and older than one month are not meant to receive antiviral medication if they are not suffering from another medical condition which would put them at risk of developing complications.[36]

Treatment of chickenpox in children is aimed at symptoms while the immune system deals with the virus. With children younger than 12 years cutting nails and keeping them clean is an important part of treatment as they are more likely to scratch their blisters more deeply than adults.[37]

Aspirin is highly contraindicated in children younger than 16 years as it has been related with a potentially fatal condition known as Reye's syndrome.[38]

Some parents believe that it is better for children to contract chickenpox than to get the vaccine. They even go to the extent of exposing their children to others who have the disease – even by taking them to "chickenpox parties." Doctors counter that children are safer getting the vaccine, which is a weakened form of the virus, than by getting the disease, which can be fatal."

Really, read the entire link I posted in your other thread, all the info you're asking about is there.

[Angel0412]

My child is one years old and his half brother is three years old which he has the chicken pox doctors have been telling me to keep them separated for as long as the other child has chicken pox ? I thought it was better to expose them when younger so that way they do not get the chicken pox when they are older and become very sick because of there immune system?

[Alty]

If my parents are 60 years old can't they easily get the shingles if around a child that has chicken pox ? Shouldnt they not come around someone with chicken pox until person with pox is better ?

Information about shingles.

http://www.google.ca/url?url=http://...i7vW_g&cad=rja

[Alty]

Sigh.

"Some parents believe that it is better for children to contract chickenpox than to get the vaccine. They even go to the extent of exposing their children to others who have the disease – even by taking them to "chickenpox parties." Doctors counter that children are safer getting the vaccine, which is a weakened form of the virus, than by getting the disease, which can be fatal."

Found... oh, in the link I gave you! :(

Really, read the link. All the questions you're asking are answered there. You're not even listening to the advice. You just keep asking questions that would already be answered if you would just read the link I posted!

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&...zSM8sSDTCWf8BQ