what to do about Shingles?

Question

I'm speaking of the rash Shingles.

Answer 1

see your doctor i had shingles when i was a little girl horrible awful itching if were speaking of the same rash i feel your pain,believe me when i tell you this.Ok even though i was only 10 i remember like it was yesterday!benadryl was what my doctor prescribed for me but i have to be honest with you it offered me little comfort,best advice see you phisician.PS.a friend

Answer 2

The severity and duration of an attack of shingles can be significantly reduced by immediate treatment with antiviral drugs, which include acyclovir, valcyclovir, or famcyclovir. Antiviral drugs may also help stave off the painful after-effects of shingles known as postherpetic neuralgia. Other treatments for postherpetic neuralgia include steroids, antidepressants, anticonvulsants, and topical agents.

For most healthy people, the lesions heal, the pain subsides within 3 to 5 weeks, and the blisters leave no scars. However, shingles is a serious threat in immunosuppressed individuals — for example, those with HIV infection or who are receiving cancer treatments that can weaken their immune systems. People who receive organ transplants are also vulnerable to shingles because they are given drugs that suppress the immune system.

A person with a shingles rash can pass the virus to someone, usually a child, who has never had chickenpox, but the child will develop chickenpox, not shingles. A person with chickenpox cannot communicate shingles to someone else. Shingles comes from the virus hiding inside the person's body, not from an outside source.

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Answer 5

The idiot, Smoothie above doesn't know that chicken pox IS a herpes virus, and that shingles is a re-enactment of chicken pox, usually in an older person. Read about shingles on any site -- Web md, google, wikipedia. There are verious med that have some effect, but nothing really cures it. The problem with singles is if it gets into the eye. Blindness can result. And the outbreak points are quite painful, lasting from several days, to weeks to months..... See your doc for sure

Answer 6

There isn't a whole lot you can do, you have to let it run it's course and try not to irritate the rash, wear loose clothing, soak in baking soda to sooth it, and ask your doctor if there is something topical you can put on it. I don't know if you have been to a doctor, but once you have had shingles, you will have the virus that carries the shingles the rest of your life. It is related to the chicken pox virus that we all carry but some never ever break out. Also, try not to stress, that's a big factor! Good Luck

Answer 7

I had shingles for the first time when I was 8, and then kept on getting them (I'm kinda sickly, haha!) The stuff inside the blisters can cause other people to get shingles if they touch it. Keep your shingles covered up. Try not to scratch them incase it gets on your fingertips and you forget to wash them. If it itches or stings, lay your hand on a cold hard surface and it will help. Shingles are like 'adult chicken pox'. If you have had chicken pox once, you never do again - but you can get shingles. You get them due to stress sometimes which messes up your immune system. Keep it covered. Notify your neices mother and your friend, but they will most likely me alright unless they touched the blisters! But remember to keep a little distance from them until the shingles begin to heal. Hope they disappear soon!

Answer 8

Shingles is a painful skin rash camera.gif. It is caused by the varicella zoster virus. Shingles usually appears in a band, a strip, or a small area on one side of the face or body. It is also called herpes zoster.
Shingles is most common in older adults and people who have weak immune systems because of stress, injury, certain medicines, or other reasons. Most people who get shingles will get better and will not get it again.

Shingles occurs when the virus that causes chickenpox starts up again in your body. After you get better from chickenpox, the virus "sleeps" (is dormant) in your nerve roots. In some people, it stays dormant forever. In others, the virus "wakes up" when disease, stress, or aging weakens the immune system. Some medicines may trigger the virus to wake up and cause a shingles rash. It is not clear why this happens. But after the virus becomes active again, it can only cause shingles, not chickenpox

There is a shingles vaccine for people who are 50 years and older. This lowers your chances of getting shingles and prevents long-term pain that can occur after shingles. And if you do get shingles, having the vaccine makes it more likely that you will have less pain and your rash will clear up more quickly.

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Answer 9

Get thyself to the doctor right away! If you catch it early enough, the M.D. can prescribe medicine to keep it in check. However, if you wait like I did and it was too long, you will suffer more than you otherwise would have. Shingles is very painful, as it affects the nerves, and by the time it reaches your skin, it is quite severe. Stress exacerbates this. People who had a mild case of chicken pox are susceptible to shingles, as the virus stays in your body for life. No fun. Best wishes.

Answer 10

My wife had shingles not to long ago, her dermatologist prescribed Veltrex that did a great job clearing it up.
Shingles are not Herpes, it is the Chicken Pox. Some people that only had a mild case in the past or have immunity problems can develop shingles.

Answer 11

This is a viral infection.
It is casued by the same virus that causes chicken pox. It gets into the spinal fluid and can stay dormant forever. But if your immune system gets stressed it can reactivate.
And you will break out along the path of the nerves in your body.
Most of the time it will be on one side or the other of the body.
It is painful and the pain can last even after the rash part is gone.
Go to the doctoras soon as you see rash and they can give you medicine to stop it and make the outbreak less sever.
Anyone who has had chicken pox could have an outbreak of this.