Awwwwww. Lovely bit of h/c. I thoroughly enjoyed!!
Is the story Mary is reading a real story?
Chicken pox doesn't turn into shingles. It's the same virus. Once a person recovers from chicken pox, the virus lays dormant in the spinal nerve root (dorsal root ganglion) Shingles is the virus reactivating, as it were, in a particular nerve root and typically only affects the skin served by that particular nerve root (dermatome). Typically only one dermatome is affected in healthy persons with a functioning immune system though I am sure is possible to have shingles in one dermatome and then have it in another dermatome at a different time (which would suuuuccckkkk). I've seen people who I thought could have it in two adjacent dermatomes. A person who has never had chicken pox cannot catch shingles though it is possible for them to catch chicken pox. A person who has had chicken pox is not going to catch shingles because they already have it lying dormant in their own nerve roots. I just know you wanted a pathophysiology lesson today..lol.
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Date: 13 Sep 2016 01:46 am (UTC)Is the story Mary is reading a real story?
Chicken pox doesn't turn into shingles. It's the same virus. Once a person recovers from chicken pox, the virus lays dormant in the spinal nerve root (dorsal root ganglion) Shingles is the virus reactivating, as it were, in a particular nerve root and typically only affects the skin served by that particular nerve root (dermatome). Typically only one dermatome is affected in healthy persons with a functioning immune system though I am sure is possible to have shingles in one dermatome and then have it in another dermatome at a different time (which would suuuuccckkkk). I've seen people who I thought could have it in two adjacent dermatomes. A person who has never had chicken pox cannot catch shingles though it is possible for them to catch chicken pox. A person who has had chicken pox is not going to catch shingles because they already have it lying dormant in their own nerve roots. I just know you wanted a pathophysiology lesson today..lol.
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