2006-07-04 08:49:41 · 7 answers · asked by delikat11 . 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
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2006-07-04 08:53:03 · answer #1 · answered by Rhoda 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
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2016-05-04 02:19:46 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first sign of shingles is often burning or tingling pain, or sometimes numbness, in or under the skin. The individual may also feel ill with fever, chills, headache, or stomach upset. After several days, a rash of small fluid-filled blisters, reminiscent of chickenpox, appears on reddened skin. The pain associated with shingles can be intense and is often described as "unrelenting." People with lesions on the torso may feel spasms of pain at the gentlest touch or breeze. The blisters are usually limited to a band, called dermatomes, spanning one side of the trunk, around the waistline, or clustered on one side of the face.
The distribution of the shingles spots is a telltale clue to where the chickenpox virus has been hiding since the initial infection. Scientists now know that the shingles lesions correspond to the dermatome supplied by a specific sensory nerve that exits from the brain or spinal cord.
For the majority of healthy individuals, this second bout with the chickenpox virus is almost always a second triumph of the body's immune system. The shingles attack may last longer than chickenpox, and the patient may need medication for pain, but in most cases the body has the inner resources to fight back. The lesions heal, the pain subsides within 3 to 5 weeks, and for most patients the blisters leave no scars.
This study also proved that a person with shingles can pass the virus to individuals who have never had chickenpox, but these individuals will develop chickenpox not shingles. A person with chickenpox cannot communicate shingles to someone else. In order for people to develop shingles they must already harbor the virus in their nervous system, and for those who do harbor the shingles virus, having contact with someone with chickenpox will not trigger shingles. Additionally, a person with shingles cannot communicate shingles to another individual.
2006-07-04 16:38:47 · answer #3 · answered by purple 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shingles is chicken pox virus making their way up a nerve to the surface. The first sign is itching, then pain, then an outbreak of pustules. It is infectious once the the pustules break. Take care around children & pregnant women. You have to have had chicken pox in order to get shingles.
2006-07-04 08:54:43 · answer #4 · answered by Taffy Saltwater 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shingles can look red or black and can appear in splotches. Sometimes it itches, sometimes it burns. It can only be infectious to another individual if that person has not had chicken pox.
2006-07-04 08:54:10 · answer #5 · answered by camping_girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no shingles are not infectious and the symptoms are wherever you have them at you will start having very bad sharp pains in that spot and then you will start breaking out and it will hurt really bad my grandpa had them not to long ago and me and my dad had to take him to the hospital because he didn;t know why he was breaking out ok bye
2006-07-04 08:57:35 · answer #6 · answered by Lacey C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It looks like ant bites, or small pimples, itches, and it starts to hurt. After 10 days the sores go away, but the severe pain may stay for 2 to 6 months, I know cause I had it, and it was in the face. I think most people get it half around the waist.
2006-07-04 08:56:01 · answer #7 · answered by kayef57 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋