Shingles is the clinical term for herpes zoster, which is indeed contagious. Herpes zoster and chickenpox are both common skin inflammatory reactions caused by varicella-zoster virus infection, but herpes zoster is infected by the virus, but not immediately after the onset of disease, but the virus latent in the nerve roots of the patient’s body, when the patient is weaker after the onset of disease, so the contagiousness is not as strong as chickenpox, but for the family property not previously infected with this virus, the child is indeed contagious. The actual fact is that the actual virus is contagious to children, and pregnant women should also try to avoid close contact with patients with shingles, because there are indeed some patients who have been in contact with patients with shingles that led to the occurrence of chickenpox.