When it comes to shingles, prevention is undoubtedly better than cure. Shingles, or herpes zoster, is known for its painful rash and the array of complications it can bring. What many might not realize is that there’s a tool at our disposal that can dramatically reduce the risk of this condition: vaccines. This comprehensive guide …
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Pocas personas que han sufrido un episodio de herpes zóster olvidan el dolor de las ampollas y la erupción que estallan, como un fuego incontrolable, a lo largo de los nervios bajo su piel. Este dolor no dura minutos u horas, sino días y a veces semanas. Aún más terrible, algunos pacientes continúan sufriendo una …
Few people who have had a bout of shingles ever forget the blisters’ pain and rash that erupt, like so much wildfire, along the nerves under their skin. This pain lasts not minutes or hours but days and sometimes weeks. Even more ghastly, some patients continue to suffer from a complication called postherpetic neuralgia, whose …
Shingles is a viral infection that affects a nerve and the surrounding skin, caused by reactivation of varicella-zoster, the chickenpox virus. After varicella zoster causes chickenpox, mostly in childhood, it remains dormant in the body for life. The reactivation of the dormant virus is what causes shingles. Therefore, anybody who had chickenpox in their childhood …
Most of us have heard about the medical condition, shingles, that causes great pain and suffering for many people later in life. The virus is linked to the contraction of chickenpox earlier in life following the varicella-zoster virus lying dormant in your body for several years before becoming active once more. The risk of the …
