Comments on: Shingles appears to have a hereditary link http://www.bami.us/wordpress/2009/01/06/shingles-appears-to-have-a-hereditary-link/ Information you can trust Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:13:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Valerie http://www.bami.us/wordpress/2009/01/06/shingles-appears-to-have-a-hereditary-link/#comment-1385 Valerie Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:23:57 +0000 http://www.bami.us/wordpress/?p=165#comment-1385 Probably good to stay away from pregnant women and certainly from children who have not been vaccinated. Shingles can be recurrent and not enough is known about it. A medical journal, Shingles and PHN is coming in Feb for doctors and researchers. Also keep it covered till Completelycrusted to help prevent contagion Probably good to stay away from pregnant women and certainly from children who have not been vaccinated. Shingles can be recurrent and not enough is known about it. A medical journal, Shingles and PHN is coming in Feb for doctors and researchers.
Also keep it covered till Completelycrusted to help prevent contagion

]]> By: Elisabeth Parent http://www.bami.us/wordpress/2009/01/06/shingles-appears-to-have-a-hereditary-link/#comment-1209 Elisabeth Parent Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:55:41 +0000 http://www.bami.us/wordpress/?p=165#comment-1209 Dear Shingle Expert: I've had the shingles at least 5 times in my life, and I am in my sixties. I did get the shingle vaccine shot in 2009, and unfortunately, they came back last Friday. I'm taking Acyclovir Tabs,anti-viral anti-biotics, and they relieve some of the pain, if I take them faithfully. I also use topic cream It seems that my mother and sisters have had the shingles, and the write up seems to suggest that it can be heredetiary. My question is when does shingles become contagious? This morning I went to Curves Exercise Circuit to work out and I mentioned to the manager of Curves that I have shingles and she suggested that I don't work out because there are a few pregnant women that come to work out. They weren't present when I was there. My doctor told me that people can't contact shingles in the air,but they could get it from someone touching them. From what I read about shingles people can't get it from someone who has it, but if they never had chicken pox they could get chicken pox, and also the time period for shingles to be contagious is a few weeks. When the shingles dry up then it's not contagious. Could I have some medical concrete information that I could pass on to people who fear contacting shingles? Thank you very much, Elisabeth Parent Also, Dear Shingle Expert:
I’ve had the shingles at least 5 times in my life, and I am in my sixties. I did get the shingle vaccine shot in 2009, and unfortunately, they came back last Friday. I’m taking Acyclovir Tabs,anti-viral anti-biotics, and they relieve some of the pain, if I take them faithfully. I also use topic cream

It seems that my mother and sisters have had the shingles, and the write up seems to suggest that it can be heredetiary.

My question is when does shingles become contagious? This morning I went to Curves Exercise Circuit to work out and I mentioned to the manager of Curves that I have shingles and she suggested that I don’t work out because there are a few pregnant women that come to work out. They weren’t present when I was there. My doctor told me that people can’t contact shingles in the air,but they could get it from someone touching them.

From what I read about shingles people can’t get it from someone who has it, but if they never had chicken pox they could get chicken pox, and also the time period for shingles to be contagious is a few weeks. When the shingles dry up then it’s not contagious.

Could I have some medical concrete information that I could pass on to people who fear contacting shingles?
Thank you very much, Elisabeth Parent

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]]> By: Allan Reed http://www.bami.us/wordpress/2009/01/06/shingles-appears-to-have-a-hereditary-link/#comment-101 Allan Reed Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:21:16 +0000 http://www.bami.us/wordpress/?p=165#comment-101 My wife, My mother-in-law and my sister-in-law have all had shingles and they all generally get it between February and May My wife, My mother-in-law and my sister-in-law have all had shingles and they all generally get it between February and May

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