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Is it normal if you had shingles months ago but continue to get the horrible pain with no rash and how long does it continue?
You may need to ask your doctor for a little help with this one. Shingles pain can continue for quite a while after the condition has supposedly cleared up. Yes, it's possible. Nerve pain is a common lingering side effect of shingles. It can lessen over time and even disappear, but some people need pain management therapy to deal with the pain. There are a lot of resources on the web devoted to shingles.
Does stress cause shingles?
Being stressed can trigger a break out but it doesn't give you herpes. You get herpes from having intercourse with some on that has it (cold sores), or kissing some one on the mouth that has it.
How long are shingles contagious after taking medication?
Shingles is only contagious before the blisters and sores dry. Once they're scabbed over, the virus is not contagious. Remember that shingles can only be spread by direct contact with the lesions. You can't get shingles from someone unless you touch their wet lesions. You won't get it from riding a bus with them, eating with them, or being in the same room with them. Patients with shingles can continue normal activities, including school and work, as long as the lesions are covered.Children do not get attack of shingles before they get chicken pox. You get attack of shingles only after you have had chicken pox.
Can you get the chickenpox from someone who has shingles?
A child who never had chicken pox can be infected with chicken pox from an adult (usually over the age of 50 years) who develops shingles. Contact with the fluid from mucous membranes (coughing, sneezing) or from contact with the fluid that oozes out of the open sores carries the virus. A child who has had chicken pox before cannot get chicken pox from an adult with shingles, nor can the child get shingles (because shingles appears later in life). An adult who has shingles cannot give shingles to another adult--- the 2nd adult would get chicken pox first IF that adult never had chicken pox as a child.
What causes fever blisters?
Fever blisters and cold sores are caused by a virus called oral herpes. Different things can trigger break outs like being out in very hot or very cold weather for long periods of time or being run down by stress / illness.
What shortage do have in your body when you get fever blisters?
Usually break outs happen when you're run down by stress or have been out in the sun or cold tempuratures for long periods of time.
How long is a shingle?
American shingles are 36" Metric Shingles are 1 meter long or 39-3/8" Many American manufacturers are selling metric shingles, not american. So check what you are buying.
How long does it take to get rid of sun poison blisters?
Sun poisoning blisters will typically heal within 1-2 weeks. To help speed up the healing process, it's important to keep the blisters clean, avoid bursting them, and protect the affected area from further sun exposure. If there are signs of infection or the blisters are severe, it's best to seek medical attention.
Shingles Causes, Symptoms and Treatment?
If you are one of the nine out of ten Americans who have had chickenpox, you are at risk for developing shingles. Shingles is a nasty, painful, viral rash caused by the varicella zoster virus, also known as herpes zoster, which is the same virus that causes chickenpox. After a case of chickenpox heals, the virus can hide in the body for many years, unnoticed, and, if reactivated later in life, can develop into a case of shingles. At least half of shingles cases are seen in people over the age of 60, but shingles can develop at any time with little or no warning. The reason for reactivation of the virus isn't clear but people with a weakened immune system because of other illnesses or medications like chemotherapy, seem to be at the highest risk. Because the main hiding place for the varicella virus is along nerve roots and pathways, an outbreak of the rash can be intensely painful. Vaccines can reduce the chances of developing shingles and early treatment can reduce the severity and duration of the infection. The first symptom a person may notice is pain, which can be intense. There may be tingling, or a localized area of numbness, generally on one side of the body. Several days later, a rash may develop in that same area, followed by a strip of fluid-filled blisters which will break, itch and crust over. While it's common to see these on the torso, they may also appear on one side of the neck or face, or around one eye. A person with shingles can pass the virus to anyone who isn't immune to chickenpox, however, in that person, the virus will cause chickenpox and not shingles. Ordinarily, the pain from shingles will decrease and go away as the blisters heal, but in some cases, the pain can continue long after the blisters are gone due to nerve damage caused by the virus. Shingles that occur on the face or around the eye can cause serious eye infections and vision loss. While there is no cure for shingles, prompt treatment with prescription anti-viral drugs can reduce the risk of complications and speed recovery, and since anti-viral drugs are most effective within the first 72 hours, it's important to be seen by the doctor as quickly as possible when symptoms appear. The shingles vaccine is available to people over the age of 50, and while it doesn't guarantee someone won't get shingles, it can help reduce the severity of symptoms, as well as the risk of complications.
How long to wait between flu vaccine and shingles vaccine?
interval- flu vaccine and the shingles vaccine
How long does it take to get over a very mild case of shingles?
An outbreak of shingles even if it appears to you to be a mild case can last anything from a week up to several months to go and remains in your body like a time bomb that may break out at any time when your immune system is low. Shingles remains dormant in your body once you have contracted the virus which causes it and it may flare up at different times or not at all during the rest of your life and can be triggered or set off after a bout of illness when your bodys defenses arnt as strong as usual or when you are feeling run down or depressed or your age may make you more succeptible to an outbreak also if you have HIV or AIDS and also some medicines which you might be given especially after the transplant of a body organ may trigger it and each time your body shows physical signs of shingles being there such as clusters of blister like spots and sharp needle like pains usually only down one side of your body and the blisters should be treated the same as chicken pox blisters as they are part of the same group of viruses called varicella zoster and some people think that you can contract shingles from a person who has chicken pox but it cant be contracted in this way but chicken pox may be contracted from a person with shingles whilst their blisters are at the weepy stage until they crust or scab over.
Does the pain after shingles last long?
how long does pain of shingles last even after rash has been gone for several weeks
