Shingles can cause severe nerve pain that often worsens at night. From treating blisters with ointments to understanding the side effects of calamine lotion, managing shingles in women and the elderly is crucial.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 1 in 3 people will develop shingles at some time during their life. The disease is caused by varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox.
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Shingles strikes 1 million Americans each year, causing mild to severe and even debilitating pain, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
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Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, results when the virus that causes chicken pox reawakens within the roots of sensory or cranial nerves. The primary symptoms of shingles, according to the 2008 edition of “Fitzpatrick’s Dermatology in General Medicine," are pain and a unique, one-sided, blistering rash.
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According to Richard J. Whitely, M.D., professor at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, writing in the 2008 edition of “Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine,” shingles strikes 1.2 million Americans each year.
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Shingles strikes one million Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although shingles is best known for its characteristic one-sided, blistering skin rash, occasionally it produces no skin manifestations at all, a condition doctors call “zoster sine herpete.
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Shingles, a common name for herpes zoster, results from reactivation of the virus that causes chicken pox within sensory nerve roots of the back and spine.
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Shingles strikes 1 million Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with most cases reported among individuals older than 50.
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Shingles is a common name for the disease known as herpes zoster. It results, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians, when the virus that causes chicken pox reactivates within clusters of sensory nerves near the spinal cord.
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