Question 1

can shingles reoccur?

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Yes: A person can have shingles more than once. His primary care doctor can evaluate to see if there is a weakness in his immune system (or just bad luck, older age, or other bodily stressors) that allowed him to have the first case of shingles. The doctor can give some advice on whether or not the patient should get the shingles vaccine to help prevent a recurrence of shingles.

Question 2

can shingles be vaccinated for?

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Yes: Zostavax is a vaccine to prevent shingles.

Question 3

can shingles affect mammogram results?

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No: Shingles would only affect the mammogram by possibly showing some skin thickening and cause you more discomfort during the procedure but it should not affect the visualization of the breast tissue.

Question 4

how can  shingles affect the human body?

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Viral infection: Pain , blisters or blebs of fluid along a nerve and fatigue.

Question 5

can shingles be prevented?

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Not completely: Shingles is a reactivation of the virus that causes chicken pox. There is a vaccine for shingles (zostavax). It doesn't prevent shingles completely, but may cause it to be milder, and reduce the amount of pain after the rash.

Question 6

can shingles spread down the leg?

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Shingles: Yes certainly especially if its infecting one of the nerves that goes into the leg.

Question 7

can shingles leave permanent scar?

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Yes: It is not usual but yes, any rash could potentially leave a scar or discoloration.

Question 8

can shingles cause fatigue as one of the symptoms ?

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Besides...: Besides the localized pain and rash that shingles cause it may also present with flu like symptoms. So yes, you may experience symptoms of weakness and fatigue although this is not the most common or prominent symptom with this type of viral infection.

Question 9

can shingles during pregnancy be harmful to the baby?

Accepted Answer

Doubt any effect: Shingles is essentially the emergence of a hibernating virus from nerve clusters along the inside of your spine. It travels out the nerve, like a canoe paddling down river to the skin, where pt causes pain & blisters that contain the reactivated virus. To affect baby it would need to enter the blood & pass thru the placenta. This is not a feature of shingles.

Question 10

help plz! can shingles rash spread to other parts of body by touching?

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No: Shingles is confined to the nerve distribution of whatever nerve is infected (we call these 'dermatomes'). So the rash will spread out as a band only on one side (L or R) of the body.  It may take a couple days to fully spread out and become red, blistery &amp; painful. Hopefully seeing a doc before that happens could limit or prevent that. I've shut down 2 cases where the pt came in just before rash.

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