A person with a shingles rash can pass the virus to someone usually a child who has never had chickenpox but the child will develop chickenpox not shingles.
What does shingles look like on a black person.
Zostavax which was approved by the food and drug administration fda in 2006 has been shown to offer protection against shingles for about five years.
The incidence of shingles and of post herpetic neuralgia rises with increasing age.
In some people the pain of shingles may linger for months or even years after the rash has healed.
This pain due to damaged nerves in and beneath the skin is known as postherpetic neuralgia.
You might also hear this formation referred to as a shingles band or a shingles girdle.
Shingles often appears around the rib cage or waist and may look like a belt or half belt.
People looking to receive the shingles vaccine have two options.
The first shingles symptom is usually pain followed a few days later by a red rash across the torso.
More than 50 of cases occur in people over 60.
What does shingles look like.
It s a live vaccine given as a single injection usually in the upper arm.
A person with chickenpox cannot communicate shingles to someone else.
Shingles is the reactivation of chickenpox.