Kids who were vaccinated against chickenpox had a 78 lower risk of developing shingles the researchers said.
Can you get shingles even if you had the chickenpox vaccine.
That s because the chickenpox vaccine is a live virus vaccine.
There s a new and improved shingles vaccine shingrix which is approved for people ages 50 and over even for those who received thefirst shingles vaccine zostavax.
Shingrix recommended for everyone age 50 and older whether or not you remember having had chickenpox because most people have been exposed to the virus.
Nearly 99 percent of children who.
Although chickenpox vaccines do contain a weakened version of the live virus which can reactivate later in life and cause shingles this is very rare he said.
After a person recovers from chickenpox the virus stays dormant inactive in the body.
You can get shingles if you have been vaccinated with the chickenpox vaccine even if you have never had a natural chickenpox infection though.
Even if they don t remember having had chickenpox they should still get the shingles vaccine it wouldn t give them chickenpox.
If you had zostavax in the recent past you should wait at least eight weeks before getting shingrix.