Dr. Miller says cleaning your rash once a day is plenty. If you choose to do so in the shower, use lukewarm water; high heat ...

A recent study found that people who received Zostavax, a older shingles vaccine, had a lower risk of developing dementia.

A new study is part of a growing body of evidence that vaccination against shingles—and potentially other infections—can be ...

Shingles of any type is believed to affect around 1 in 3 people in their lifetime and it’s estimated that up to 1 million new ...

Some people with shingles only experience mild symptoms. They may develop a rash, fatigue, headaches, and a low grade fever. Home remedies and over-the-counter (OTC) treatments may help relieve ...

In addition to the discomfort of the rash, you may also feel generally crummy, like you have the flu. To complicate things, nerve pain caused by shingles can last a while, and the fluid from the ...

If it infects an eye it can cause vision loss. Up to 20% of shingles patients suffer excruciating nerve pain months or even years after the rash itself is gone. It’s not clear exactly how ...

Shingles, a painful and blistering rash, arises from the dormant chickenpox virus lurking within the nervous system of anyone who has had chickenpox. This reactivation, triggered by a weakened ...

The varicella-zoster virus—which causes varicella (chickenpox) in childhood and zoster (shingles) after lying ... it from causing the painful shingles rash. The traditional way to find out ...

Shingles is a viral infection — the same that causes chicken pox — that leads to a painful rash.

Collage: Self ; Source Photos: Getty Images Thanks to its hallmark rash, which is characterized by red to brownish bumps that blister, leak fluid, and scab over, shingles, a.k.a. herpes zoster ...