Thread: Chickenpox after 18-Any info?

2/24/2008: If anyone has any information regarding experiencing chickenpox after 18 years old, please contact me. I am particularly interested in whether persons that have experienced this rare occurence has also commonalities in other areas as well. If you respond, please give a history of what illnesses or exposures or anything environmental you think might have contributed to your immune system allowing you to encounter chickenpox later in life. I have communicated with doctors who haven't given much information at all-just that it is rare. Thanks!

Saw Your post as recently have had some outbreaks in the form of shingles with alot of my friends so I have done some research already.
Chicken Pox: caused by a virus like Herpes zoster and if ones get chicken pox it can reoccur later in life as shingles. To first get chicken pox as an adult is rarer but can have fatal results unless treated faster as the news clip I copied and pasted shows. . News story clip & link: Chicken pox in adults can cause bacterial infections leading to potentially fatal conditions, such as toxic shock syndrome, but only 20 adults, mostly the elderly, die from the disease in Wales last each year.
Chicken Pox Death Story

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3/3/2008: I posted for a reply on the link you have above for a follow-up to the original case reported on. If there was a post-mortem done, what were the findings, etc. Since there are so
few cases, (or reported cases anyway), it is difficult to determine what commonalities exist either between patients, or symptoms. Just the chicken-pox alone, without any other added complications, (like t.s.s), causes such extreme weakness, fever, discomfort, etc., imagining anything else added to it is incomprehensible. It could be that it creates a more dangerous setting if you contract the virus when you are ill or exposed to something else, and, that the weakened immune system just gives up-that is scarey-and, what really causes the virus to come up at all? There were no other persons that were affected with the man in your report that died.
That is the only commonality that I can see so far about the man in your report and my info.
Thanks for the lead article and, if you have that info about the herpes zoster (which really isn't
chicken-pox), please either post or send it to me, if you are able. Thanks! 21stCentury.

The reason so few adults contract chicken pox (caused by the varicella-zoster virus) is that it is a highly contagious virus. Most of us contracted it during childhood, and now have immunity. The chicken pox vaccine (brand name Varivax) was licensed in 1995, but many parents and some healthcare providers view chicken pox as such a mild illness, that they feel there is no need to prevent it, so they don't get their children vaccinated. According to the CDC, prior to the vaccine being available, approximately 100 children a year would die from chickenpox complications, and 6500-10,000 would be hospitalized...not such a minor illness! Unfortunately, not all individuals will acchieve 100% immunity from the vaccine, so potentially we may begin to see an increase in the incidence of chicken pox in adults as the current generation of children mature, and the next generation of parents fail to immunize their offspring.

Shingles is a little different. The varicella virus will go dormant in the body after a case of the chickenpox, but it never leaves. It can be reactivated, but will reappear as the herpes zoster virus. This virus is not as contagious as chicken pox. It is spread by contact with the lesions that appear...it is not airborne like the varicella version. But a person who has never had chicken pox, and is exposed to someone with shingles, will develop chicken pox. Guess this answers the question of which came first, the chicken or the egg!