Be Familiar With Shingles Rash Symptoms

By Carolyn Brooks


Unless you want to pay exorbitant sums for labs, it is vital to know your own shingles rash symptoms. The symptomatology can vary from person to person, so knowing how it effects you is key to making the life of this outbreak much shorter. One should be sure to inform any regular caretakers of such information during the get-to-know-you phase so they can have it for future use.

This condition actually occurs as a result of the chickenpox most everyone had as a child. Once this virus is in the body, it lies in wait for decades. As we experience some biochemical changes in our older years, it suddenly sees the opportunity for a comeback performance.

Pain is generally the first thing a patient will notice. This is key because some caretakers become nonplussed when their patient complains of various aches and pains throughout the day. While this is a natural tendency for many people, it is important to pay attention to the complains your patients make in order to notice if there are any changes to their daily list of aches.

It is not uncommon for a person to experience the pain, but never have an actual outbreak of the rash occur. While one is still able to do so, making some personal medical notes about their childhood chicken pox can be helpful. Especially if there was a particularly extensive outbreak on their torso, where these outbreaks as well as pain are most frequently experienced.

Having the outbreak occur on the right or the left of the torso is painful, but generally heals without further problems or complications to the patient. In some cases the outbreaks occur on the face, and these need to be seen by a doctor right away. If it impacts the eyes, one can experience a permanent disability of sight as a result.

If one happens to be a cancer or AIDS patient, getting to a doctor is extremely important. The impact of outbreaks for most people is minor, but for those individuals with weakened immune systems, it can be more severe. As a good rule of thumb, one who is over the age of sixty ought to see a doctor when one occurs.

Anyone with a weakening immune system is likely to experience an outbreak. This may be the reason that some people experience this condition and others do not. It is important to know that if you receive treatment for cancer or HIV, you are at a dramatically increased likelihood of having painful outbreaks which can cause problems with eyesight, as well as forms of neuralgia.

If one gets them soon enough, the vaccines available to help prevent outbreaks can provide some hope to many. For some it may remove any chance of an outbreak, but we have no way of knowing when that is the case. For most, it shows promise for lessening the pain and neuralgia that often occurs from outbreaks.

Of particular note is the fact that not every person who had chickenpox growing up will get suffer from this. Lowered immunity is apparently what gives rise to these outbreaks. The reasons for this are not really clearly known, but the medical community hopes it can be eradicated in time with the chickenpox vaccination.




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