Tell Me Everything About Shingles
Healthy adults age 50 and older should talk to.
Tell me everything about shingles. Symptoms of shingles include burning or shooting pain tingling or itching chills fever headache upset stomach and. Following a bout of chickenpox the virus lies dormant in the spinal nerve cells. Shingles is an infection caused by the varicella zoster virus which is the same virus that causes chickenpox. Here are 5 things you need to know about shingles.
Anyone who has recovered from chickenpox and even children can get shingles. It usually shows up on just one side of your body. Shingles is a rash with shooting pain. Learn more about shingles symptoms causes contagiousness vaccine diagnosis and treatment.
If left untreated this infection can lead to permanent eye damage. Contact your doctor promptly if you suspect shingles but especially in the following situations. But it can be reactivated years. Even after the chickenpox infection is over the virus may live in your nervous system.
You re 60 or older because age significantly increases your risk of complications. The pain and rash occur near an eye.