Shingles Articles

Chicken pox is an extremely common disease that affects most people when they are young. But the virus that causes the disease stays back within the body for years, even after the symptoms are gone, only to return much later as the shingles disease. Shingles is also known as herpes zoster and the virus that causes both shingles and chicken pox is the varicella zoster virus. So though there can be exceptions, but shingles mostly affects only those who have already suffered from chicken pox. Experts are of the view that the virus is able to reactivate after years only due to the fact that the natural immunity of the body has decreased with the advanced age. There are also a few triggers that ‘trigger-off’ the virus once more.

The symptoms of shingles include fever, headache, an itching and tingling sensation, pain and of course the fluid filled blisters that come up in the affected portion of the skin. Shingles can also affect the eye and if left untreated can lead to serious consequence.



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