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My five-year-old has been diagnosed with shingles. Is this common in young children? We have been advised to use calamine lotion, but the spots look blistered.

Chicken pox (varicella) is the disease people get when they are exposed to the varicella-zoster virus for the first time.

Medically reviewed by Jonathan B. Jassey, DO Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is the virus that causes chickenpox and shingles.

Shingles, or herpes zoster, is a painful skin rash with blisters. The disease can occur at any age, but those affected are ...

Richard Whitley, who chaired the data and safety monitoring board for the Shingles ... children given the varicella vaccine from 1995 through 2004. There were 1080 cases of breakthrough varicella ...