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Shingles - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic
Shingles is characterized by pain or a tingling sensation in a limited area on one side of the face or torso, followed by a red rash with small, fluid-filled blisters.
Shingles - Diagnosis & treatment - Mayo Clinic
Health care providers usually diagnose shingles based on the history of pain on one side of your body, along with the telltale rash and blisters. Your health care provider may also take a tissue sample or culture of the blisters to send to the lab.
Shingles vaccine: Should I get it? - Mayo Clinic
Should I get the shingles vaccine? If I've already had shingles, should I get the vaccine so that I don't get shingles again? People who can get the Shingrix vaccine in the U.S. should get it. That includes people who have had shingles.
What to know about shingles - Mayo Clinic Press
The hallmark of shingles is a painful rash that most often appears as a horizontal band of blisters on one side of the torso. But the rash can appear anywhere, including the neck or face.
Shingles treatment: Does alcohol use affect therapy?
An episode of shingles usually heals on its own within a few weeks. However, immediate shingles treatment — often including an antiviral drug, such as acyclovir (Zovirax), famciclovir or valacyclovir (Valtrex) — can reduce pain, speed healing and reduce the risk of complications.
Shingles vaccine: Can I transmit the vaccine virus to others?
A shingles vaccine uses only part of the varicella-zoster virus, so you can't infect others.
Postherpetic neuralgia - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
Postherpetic neuralgia happens if nerve fibers get damaged during an outbreak of shingles. Damaged fibers can't send messages from the skin to the brain as they usually do.
Ramsay Hunt syndrome - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic
This painful condition occurs when a shingles infection damages nerve fibers. The messages sent by these nerve fibers become confused and exaggerated, causing pain that may last long after other signs and symptoms of Ramsay Hunt syndrome have faded.
带状疱疹 - 症状与病因 - 妙佑医疗国际
带状疱疹是一种病毒感染,会出现令人疼痛的皮疹。带状疱疹可见于身体的任何部位。通常表现为围绕躯干左侧或右侧形成一条水疱。 引起带状疱疹的元凶是水痘-带状疱疹病毒,与水痘是同一种致病病毒。一旦出过水痘,病毒 ...
Can stress trigger shingles? How to treat? - Mayo Clinic Connect
Sometimes the pain of shingles precedes the rash coming to the surface by as much as a week. Especially if it is at the same nerve distribution. Prompt treatment with a prescribed antiviral from your doctor is the best remedy. You can use Tylenol and ibuprofen if the pain is severe.
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