Tell Me All About Shingles

If left untreated this infection can lead to permanent eye damage.

Tell me all about shingles.

Here are 5 things you need to know about shingles. Anyone who has recovered from chickenpox and even children can get shingles. You re 60 or older because age significantly increases your risk of complications. Shingles is a common painful infection that typically causes blisters and rashes on the skin.

Contact your doctor promptly if you suspect shingles but especially in the following situations. Later on that virus can trigger another infection called shingles which is known for a painful rash. Symptoms of shingles include burning or shooting pain tingling or itching chills fever headache upset stomach and. Even after the chickenpox infection is over the virus may live in your nervous system.

The word shingles comes from the latin word cingulum which means belt. Shingles is a disease characterized by a painful blistering skin rash that affects one side of the body typically the face or torso. However shingles can become more than a skin problem when it affects other systems of the body. This condition may also be referred to as herpes zoster zoster or zona.

The pain and rash occur near an eye. Healthy adults age 50 and older should talk to. It typically affects a single sensory nerve ganglion and the skin surface.