Shingles it’s just a skin rash related with the chickenpox through a virus named Varicella, which causes both infections. After a body is affected by chickenpox this virus will remain in the body’s nervous system forever. This virus will be inactive there, but in some cases when our immunity drops for various reasons the Varicella virus will attack again causing shingles. As anyone can see the persons who experienced chickenpox have a lot of chances to experience shingles too. This infection is especially know to affect just one side of the body.

The persons which develop this skin condition are healthy and the causes usually remains unknown. Still what cause this infection? The right question should be: What trigger the Varicella second attack? The exact causes are unknown but latest studies revealed this is something with our immunity. That’s why we can considerate causes the factors which affect our immune system,like stress and diseases.

The main symptom is represented by high sensibility almost pain in the affected area. This extra sensibility will disappear gradually as the area heal itself. Other symptoms are headache and fever and in some cases burning pain in the affected area. An affected person will see red small blisters which will appear following a pattern named dermatomal pattern. This patter means that the blisters will follow out the nerves from spinal cord. The nerve path can be full of blisters or can have just a few ones, in any cause you can be sure that it’s Shingles.

The treatment involves antiviral medications and in serious cases, when the eyes can be affected the drugs must be taken on regularly basic. In order to be effective, this kind of treatment must be taken at most after three days of rash. If you have the Shingles symptoms go right away to the specialists. The best antiviral drugs which can help a lot when its comes to Shingles are famcyclovir, valacyclovir, acyclovir.