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Your guide to shingles in pregnancy
When you're pregnant, it's normal to feel anxiety in pregnancy, especially when it comes to yours and your baby's health, and one illness you may be worried about is shingles in pregnancy.
We spoke to midwife Louise Broadbridge aka @thehonestmidwife on Instagram to answer all of your questions about shingles in pregnancy, the risks, treatments and things you need to be aware of.
Shingles in pregnancy
Catching any kind of illness when pregnant can be worrying and you may well have heard that chickenpox is dangerous for expectant mothers and newborn babies.
Shingles is a reactivated version of the varicella-zoster virus, which causes chickenpox, but it doesn’t pose a risk to your unborn baby.
It is only caught by people who have already had chickenpox in the past.
It is sometimes referred to as herpes zoster but it is a completely different condition to genital herpes. The similarity in name is because the conditions are caused by viruses from the Herpesviridae family of viruses.
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