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In shingles, blisters do not form all the time.
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Are there times when the shingles rash looks more like bug bites than blisters?
Yes, shingles rash can look like bug bites as well as blisters. There is no one way that shingles looks.
Can you have shingles in the mouth?
No shingles of the mouth is not contagious. Shingles is not contagious in any form. The virus that causes shingles however, can cause chicken pox.
Will exposing shingles to the sun help heal the blisters?
YEs certainly
Are you contagious with shingles?
This is not exactly true. If you have chickenpox as a child, you cannot then get shingles as an adult. However, if you do not have chickenpox as a child but get it as an adult, it is possible that this will develop into shingles.
What results from scratching shingles?
Shingles is not a condition in which spreads like a normal rash. Although scratching shingles blisters would be extremely painful it will not spread them to other body parts.
Shingles blisters spread on the body how?
Shingles is the common name for Herpes Zoster. It is spread unilaterally, affecting either the right side or left side of the body, but not both. The blisters are painful but do respond to anti-viral treatments. Consult your physician for the best treatment option. Shingles DO respond somewhat to anti-virals by the reduction of the number of blisters, the spread, and by drying them up before they become too inflamed.
What type of rash makes blotches of tiny blisters and feels like sharp piercing needles?
shingles
Will the liquid in the blisters of shingles make the rash spread?
no that liguid is only a water-like body fluid
Can you get chickenpox from eating food cooked by someone with shingles?
Shingles isn't spread by saliva, but by contact with wet sores or blisters due to shingles. You're not likely to get it from sharing a spoon unless the person had shingles on their hands or lips.
Can you get shingles from fever blisters on lips?
You can't get shingles from cold sores. They are both caused by viruses in the herpes family, but cold sores are caused by herpes simplex, and shingles is caused by varicella zoster virus (chickenpox virus).
Is Shingles a disease?
Technically yes, but only through direct contact with the wounds, blisters or rashes of the person having the shingles disease. A healthy person cannot get shingles if informal contact is made with someone suffering from shingles. This infection can't be transmitted if a person suffering from shingles sneezes or coughs. Shingles can't pass through the air.
Shingles started 5 days ago new blisters just appeared is this normal?
Hope you are seeing a doctor. Shingles is very serious and can come back again. After this breakout, get the shingles vaccine. It is well worth it. Dont ignore it.
