SurgyRN

breathoscope- everyone always says take a deep breath when they listen to patients

Yes, correct. Thanks for all your responses. Here is a quoted portion from the CDC that confirms your statement. Shingles cannot be passed from one person to another. However, the virus that causes shingles, the varicella zoster virus, can be spread from a person with active shingles to another person who has never had chickenpox. In such cases, the person exposed to the virus might develop chickenpox, but they would not develop shingles.

Actually, shingles can only spread to newborns, immunocompromised and unvaccinated people against varicella. Just fyi.

Yes, thank you for clarifying my question. I am very aware of what Lymes and Shingles exemplify, just wanted extra input on thoughts of a lymes diseased person being around another person who has shingles.

So I know that shingles can be spread to babies and immunocompromised people, but I'm wondering if that would include lymes disease? Is a person with lymes considered immunocompromised?

I wanted to confirm some thoughts about giving rocephin. My friend is getting daily injections, and she has been using a 25 gauge needle to both reconstitute and inject the med. I think this size is way too small! I think she should use at least a 23 gauge 1 inch or larger bore and split the 4.2cc in two injections. She is using the dorsogluteal site which is good. Any thoughts or confirmations would be greatly appreciated.