Tell Me All About Shingles

Healthy adults age 50 and older should talk to.

Tell me all about shingles.

It typically affects a single sensory nerve ganglion and the skin surface. If left untreated this infection can lead to permanent eye damage. Symptoms of shingles include burning or shooting pain tingling or itching chills fever headache upset stomach and. Shingles is a viral infection that results from the varicella zoster virus vzv the same virus that causes chickenpox.

Later on that virus can trigger another infection called shingles which is known for a painful rash. Anyone who has recovered from chickenpox and even children can get shingles. Shingles is a common painful infection that typically causes blisters and rashes on the skin. However shingles can become more than a skin problem when it affects other systems of the body.

Shingles is an infection caused by the varicella zoster virus which is the same virus that causes chickenpox. Contact your doctor promptly if you suspect shingles but especially in the following situations. The word shingles comes from the latin word cingulum which means belt. When you have chickenpox the virus that caused it sticks around even after you get better.

The pain and rash occur near an eye. You re 60 or older because age significantly increases your risk of complications. Even after the chickenpox infection is over the virus may live in your nervous system.