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Shingles is a viral infection that causes a painful rash. Also known as herpes zoster, it often appears as a band of blisters that wraps from the middle of your back around one side of your chest to your breastbone. Other parts of your body can be involved as well, including your neck, face or scalp.
The pain of shingles can be excruciating, and the cause might not be immediately evident. But once the telltale rash and blisters start on one side of your body, it's more easily identified as shingles.
Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox. After you've had chickenpox, the virus lies inactive (dormant) in your nerves. Years later, the virus may reactivate as shingles.
Shingles isn't a life-threatening condition, but it can be very painful. Sometimes, the rash leads to debilitating complication neuralgia. This condition causes the skin to remain painful and sensitive to touch for months or even years after the rash clears up.
Vaccines can help reduce the risk of shingles, while early treatment can help shorten a shingles infection and minimize the chance of complications.
The signs and symptoms of shingles may include:
Pain, burning, tingling, numbness or extreme sensitivity
A red rash that begins a few days after the pain
Fluid-filled blisters that break open and crust over
Itching
Fever and chills
Headache
Upset stomach or abdominal pain
Typically, the shingles rash occurs on only one side of your body. It may appear, for example, as a band of blisters that wraps from the middle of your back around one side of your chest to your breastbone, following the path of the nerve where the virus had been inactive. Sometimes, the shingles rash occurs around one eye or on one side of the neck or face.
Pain is usually the first symptom of shingles. For some, it can be intense, with just the slightest touch causing severe pain. Sometimes the pain can be mistaken for other problems or diseases, such as kidney stones, gallstones or appendicitis, depending on its location. Some people experience the pain without the rash, which makes diagnosing shingles more difficult.
Although the shingles rash may resemble chickenpox, the virus typically causes more pain and less itching the second time around.
Shingles is a second eruption of the varicella-zoster virus
Varicella-zoster is part of a group of viruses called herpes viruses, which includes the viruses that cause cold sores and genital herpes. Many of these viruses can lie hidden in your nervous system after an initial infection and remain inactive for years before causing another infection.
Anyone who's had chickenpox may develop shingles. If your immune system doesn't destroy the entire virus during the initial infection, the remaining virus can enter your nervous system and lie hidden for years. Eventually, it may reactivate and travel along nerve pathways to your skin - producing the shingles.
The reason for the encore is unclear. But it may be due to lowered immunity to infections as you grow older. Shingles is more common in older adults and in those who have weak immune systems.
MEDICAL TREATMENT
An episode of shingles usually heals on its own within a few weeks, but prompt treatment can ease pain, speed healing and reduce your risk of complications.
Your doctor may take a three-pronged approach to your treatment:
High doses of an antiviral drug to reduce the duration and severity of your symptoms. Oral antiviral medications. For best results, start these medications within 72 hours of the first sign of the shingles rash.
An anti-inflammatory drug to ease inflammation. Corticosteroids (prednisone) are occasionally used to reduce inflammation and lower your risk of postherpetic neuralgia.
Pain relievers to control pain. For relief of severe pain, narcotics (opioids) may be needed.
Sometimes tricyclic antidepressants or certain anticonvulsants are helpful if the pain continues after shingles resolves. A topical ointment that includes capsaicin or a skin patch that contains the pain-relieving medication lidocaine may be soothing as well.
NATURAL HEALING WITHOUT SURGERY
We would diagnosis the cause of the out break of Shingles...
In a lot of cases depression can affect the immune system. We will help the patient's immune system and remove the neuralgia - neuritis on the body, without delay.
With the frequency adjustment of our Energy machine, we can eliminate the virus and inflammation from the peripheral nerve. We have achieved a success rate is above 90%
The signs and symptoms of shingles may include:
Shingles is a second eruption of the varicella-zoster virus
