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Can chicken pox in young children cause shingles in an adult?

Please tell me how these virus's are similar and if one can cause the other? My mother is convinced that my 4 year old child's chicken pox will cause shingles in a 50 year old women. Is this accurate?

Public Comments

1. I honestly don't think so!
2. Taylor- Not really. Although they are basically the same virus having pox doesn't mean that she WILL get shingles. She would be what they call predisposed to getting shingles if the situation was right. The part I don't like is because I had shingles once does not mean that I won't get them again.
3. No. Severe stress causes shingles to break out.
4. That is one of those odd things. Shingles is the result of stress on the mind and body allowing the virus to come come back and annoy you. People who have had the chicken pox still carry the virus with them. The immune system keeps it in a kind of quarantine.
5. No, just the opposite. Exposure to chickenpox PROTECTS against shingles. Tell your mother to spend as much time as she can with your child right now.
6. chicken pox and shingles are caused by the same virus. Once you've had chicken pox, the virus stays in your body forever, and you could have a breakout of shingles later in life under the right conditions. It doesn't happen to everyone. HOWEVER, an adult will not "catch" shingles from being around a kid with chicken pox. An adult who has not had chicken pox will catch chicken pox.