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Shingles is a contagious skin disease caused by a viral infection. If you suffer from shingles, you should actively seek treatment. At the same time, you should enhance your resistance, develop good living habits, avoid smoking and drinking, and exercise more.

1. Experts say: Shingles is contagious

To understand the contagiousness of shingles, it is necessary to understand how shingles is transmitted. There are a large number of viruses in the blister fluid of shingles patients, which can cause infection through direct or indirect contact, making it contagious. Contact with someone with shingles can infect children who have never had chickenpox and can sometimes lead to "adult chickenpox" in adults.

2. Shingles is not directly contagious

There is a virus in the blister fluid of patients with shingles. If a child who is not immune to the virus comes into contact with the blister fluid, he or she may be infected and develop chickenpox, but the chance of this happening is relatively rare. Most adults are immune, so they will not get sick even if they are exposed. Therefore, shingles is not directly contagious, nor will it cause an epidemic among the population. Herpes zoster patients do not require special isolation, but should avoid close contact with children.

The incubation period for shingles can be months, years, or even decades. After the initial infection with shingles, the human body will develop lasting immunity and rarely get chickenpox again, but specific immunity cannot eliminate the virus lurking in the ganglia, so it cannot prevent the occurrence of shingles. To prevent shingles, in addition to timely and active treatment, you must also increase your own resistance, maintain good living habits, avoid staying up late, overwork, etc., and strengthen physical exercise.

3. Through the above introduction, everyone is now completely clear about whether the disease of shingles is contagious. We have a certain understanding of this. Although this disease will not cause an epidemic among the population and people with shingles do not need to be isolated, we should still be careful and avoid having too much contact with children. Actively facing the disease, treating the disease, and providing scientific care are the keys to recovery.