Please describe how once gets shingles?
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Go to Lowes or Home Depot and go to the roofing section. Put however many you need on a cart and proceed to the checkout lane. Pay, take home, and get started.
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When the virus that causes chickenpox reactivates, it causes shingles. Early symptoms of shingles include headache, sensitivity to light, and flu-like symptoms without a fever. You may then feel itching, tingling, or extreme pain in the area where a rash is developing. Several days later, a belt-shaped or bandlike rash appears. This band of pain and rash is the clearest sign of shingles.The rash caused by shingles is more painful than itchy. The nerve roots that supply sensation to your skin run in pathways on each side of your body. When the virus becomes reactivated, it travels up the nerve roots to the bandlike area of skin supplied by those specific nerve roots. This is why the rash appears on only one side of your body, usually the chest or back, and sometimes on your face around one eye. It is possible to develop more than one bandlike rash on your body with shingles.You may reduce the duration and pain of shingles by:\n\nTaking good care of skin sores, such as not scratching blisters and keeping your skin clean. \nUsing medications as prescribed to treat shingles or postherpetic neuralgia, which is pain that lasts for at least 30 days after the shingles rash heals. \nUsing nonprescription pain medications, such as acetaminophen, aspirin, or ibuprofen, to help reduce pain during an attack of shingles or ongoing pain caused by postherpetic neuralgia. Call your health professional immediately if :\n\nAny sign of shingles develops (such as pain or changes in vision) that affects your forehead, nose, eye, or eyelid. \nAny symptoms of shingles develop (such as headache, stiff neck, dizziness, weakness, hearing loss, or changes in your thinking and reasoning abilities) that affect your central nervous system. \nSkin sores spread to parts of your body beyond the original area of the rash. \nYou think you have a bacterial skin infection in the same area as the shingles rash, or your rash has not healed in 2 to 4 weeks. \nYou develop pain in your face or are unable to move muscles in your face. The most common treatments for shingles include:\n\nAntiviral medications, such as acyclovir, famciclovir, or valacyclovir, to reduce the pain and the duration of shingles. \nNonprescription pain medications, such as acetaminophen, aspirin, or ibuprofen, which may help reduce pain during an attack of shingles. \nCorticosteroids, in combination with antiviral medication, to reduce pain and the duration of shingles. \nTopical antibiotics, applied directly to the skin, to stop infection of the blisters.
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I agree, Shingles is a form of Chicken Pox Virus, so I would think Benadryl or Calamine lotion would be best.
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Shingles is a painful blistering rash caused by reactivation of varicella, the chickenpox virus. It is correctly known as herpes zoster. \n\nChicken Pox is the primary infection with the virus, Herpes zoster, also called ‘varicella-zoster’. During this widespread infection, which usually occurs in childhood, virus is seeded to nerve cells in the spinal cord, usually of nerves that supply sensation to the skin. \n\nThe virus remains in a resting phase in these nerve cells for years before it is reactivated and grows down the nerves to the skin to produce shingles (zoster). This can occur in childhood but is much more common in adults, especially the elderly. \n\nThe first sign of shingles is usually pain, which may be severe, in the areas of one or more sensory nerves, often where they emerge from the spine. The pain may be just in one spot or it may spread out. The patient usually feels quite unwell with fever and headache. The lymph nodes draining the affected area are often enlarged and tender. \n\nWithin one to three days of the onset of pain, a blistering rash appears in the painful area of skin. Sometimes, especially in children, shingles is painless. \n\nIt starts as a crop of closely-grouped red bumps in a continuous band on the area of skin supplied by one, occasionally two, and rarely more neighbouring spinal nerves. New lesions continue to appear for several days, each blistering or becoming pustular then crusting over. Shingles occasionally causes blisters inside the mouth or ears, and can also affect the genital area. \n\nThe pain and general symptoms subside gradually as the eruption disappears. In uncomplicated cases recovery is complete in 2-3 weeks in children and young adults, and 3 to 4 weeks in older patients. \n\nOccasionally pain is not followed by the eruption - shingles "sine eruptione". \n\nThe chest (thoracic), neck (cervical), forehead (ophthalmic) and lumbar/sacral sensory nerve supply regions are most commonly affected at all ages but the frequency of ophthalmic shingles increases with age. Rarely the eruption may affect both sides of the body. \n\nIn elderly and undernourished patients the blisters are deeper. Healing may take many weeks and be followed by scarring. Muscle weakness arises in about one in twenty patients because the muscle nerves are affected as well as the sensory nerves. Facial nerve palsy is the most common result. There is a 50% chance of complete recovery and in time some improvement can be expected in nearly all cases.
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You should consult a physician on this. There is a misconception that once you have an illness a vaccine is completely ineffective, and this is not true for all vaccines. The effect is not as great for persons who are already infected, but the new Herpes Zoster vaccine is for people who are already infected so they don't get a miserable case of the shingles, which can be extremely painful. Ask a physicain - not a website.
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I had chicken pox(yes, confirmed by Doc, not shingles) when I was 23. It started out with feeling unwell then turned into pleurisy(inflammation of the lining of the lungs)and I whistled like a tea kettle and could not inhale deeply without doubling over.The next day the spots appeared. My sons were 1 and 4 at the time and I gave it to them. It lasted for weeks and I had to go to the doctors every other day so he could make sure I did not get pneumonia. I had them on my palms, my soles of my feet, even my gums!(couldn't brush because they'd pop and spread.) I laid on the couch sick as a dog for 2 weeks until the baby got them too.He was relentless because every time I would lay down he would come pick my spots.I have 3 scars on my face from him. We laugh about this now that he's 11 but it wasn't fun at the time.
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This is a mild form of shingles.
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Do they itch and/or hurt? Do they run in a straight line on just one side of the body? Have you ever had chicken pox? If you answered yes to these three questions, odds are it's shingles. But you can always get a second opinion from another doctor.
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I am a nurse also.  MS is an autoimmune disease.  Being compromised, if you never had chicken pox or can't remember having them, I would stay away from someone with shingles.  If you can't stay away, do not use their sheets, or towels.  Their clothing,sheets, and towels must be kept separate from everyone elses, especially the one who has MS.
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I don't think so, you can't catch shingles from someone, but if you did get shingles, you could give the Chicken Pox to someone who never had them
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Varicella Zoster Virus\nA herpesvirus that causes chickenpox and shingles.
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Generally speaking, once you have had chicken pox you will not get it again...however, if the exposure/case of chicken pox you had was minimal, there is a chance you may get it again.(chicken pox that is.)  Now, chicken pox is caused by Vericella (not the correct spelling)which is a virus I think...this can come back years later and cause Shingles which is a very painful condition that effects your nerves.\n\nEither way, if you suspect this, you need to see a doctor...the older you get past childhood, Chicken pox can be very serious and cause a type of pneumonia that can lead to death...get it checked out!
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Chickenpox, which can also lead to shingles. (Why your MD was recommending rest.)
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You don't. Caused by Herpes virus (same virus as chicken pox...you probably had chicken pox, didn't you?) Do all you can to boost your immune system, go to doctor for Cyclovir treatment that may be indicated. DO NOT use steroids of any kind, such as cortisone...will make the infection much worse. Basically, the only way you can get over this really painful disease is to get rid of stress in your life, do the vitamin thing to boost immune system. and see another doctor who specializes in HIV diseases. Shingles is a real problem for those with HIV, as are other nasty Herpes viruses. Therefore, I would see a doc who has great experience with this disease. Cyclovirs are used to combat Herpes I and II, Epstien Barr, and Cytomegalo virus. Check it out and I sincerely hope you find some relief quickly. But ... change docs. This one is doing you no good.
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Blister like lesions may be caused by localized contact dermatitis, or perhaps shingles (herpes zoster).  There have been reported cases of shingles in infancy as the child was exposed to the varicella virus (chicken pox) in very early infancy or perhaps even in utero.  The reactivated virus grows along one dermatome or nerve distribution and produces a characteristic vesicular or blister like rash on a reddened base, which follows a specific nerve dermatome and is always on one side of the body, almost never crossing midline.
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Zoster infection is actually not uncommon at any age.  It shows itself as "shingles" when it is triggered by any stress to the body, thought to activate the virus by temporarily weakening the immune system.  This is because shingles is actually an aggrevation of a pre-existing, dormant viral infection by stress.\nCommon stressors include any viral/bacterial infection (like a common cold), physical/emotional stress, sleep deprivation, the list goes on and on...\nSummary - Its possible that stopping your effexor suddenly (which is a BAD move btw - you should always wean off gradually) put a stress on your body that simply acted as the trigger to activate your pre-exisisting Herpes Zoster infection into a full-blown bout of shingles.  However your trigger may have been completely unrelated to the effexor...\n\nI'm assuming you saw your doctor allready?\n\nDoes this help?  For more info try this link http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1007.htm
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shin·gles    ( P )  (shngglz)\n\npl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)\n\nAn acute viral infection characterized by inflammation of the sensory ganglia of certain spinal or cranial nerves and the eruption of vesicles along the affected nerve path. It usually strikes only one side of the body and is often accompanied by severe neuralgia. Also called herpes zoster.\n\nPICTURES: http://images.google.com/images?q=shingles&hl=en