Tell Me Everything About Shingles

Healthy adults age 50 and older should talk to.

Tell me everything about shingles.

You re 60 or older because age significantly increases your risk of complications. Symptoms of shingles include burning or shooting pain tingling or itching chills fever headache upset stomach and. Contact your doctor promptly if you suspect shingles but especially in the following situations. If left untreated this infection can lead to permanent eye damage.

Shingles arises from varicella zoster the same virus that causes chickenpox. The first sign of shingles is often burning or tingling pain which can be severe or sometimes numbness or itch generally on one side of the body. But it can be reactivated years. Here are 5 things you need to know about shingles.

Shingles is a rash with shooting pain. Anyone who has recovered from chickenpox and even children can get shingles. Even after the chickenpox infection is over the virus may live in your nervous system. The pain and rash occur near an eye.

Shingles herpes zoster is an outbreak of rash or blisters on the skin that is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox the varicella zoster virus. Following a bout of chickenpox the virus lies dormant in the spinal nerve cells.