Herpes simplex

Shingles is a painful, rash that appears on ones skin. The scientific name for shingles is herpes zoster. Shingles is inside every person who had chickenpox at an earlier age. It can flair up at any moment, usually the more likely the older one gets. Shingles can flair up for a number of reasons such as stress and a weak immune system. Shingles and smallpox were thought to be the same thing until William Heberden discovered a way to distinguish the two. In 1942, shingles was…

Treating Shingles with Acupuncture What is “Shingles” and how do we get it? Shingles is a painful condition characterized by a skin rash caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox - the varicella zoster. It is also known as Herpes Zoster. Your first exposure of this virus usually as a child leads to the disease popular to all of us, chickenpox. It causes itchy and painful sores spread all over the body. After one acquires and recovers from chickenpox, the virus stays in the body and…

inflamed (Nazarko, 2013). People develop chickenpox when they first exposure to herpes virus in childhood. When they recover from chickenpox, the virus remains in the spinal nerves in a dormant form. People with healthy immune systems keep the virus dormant with no symptoms of shingles. When people are in immune depressive status or when people are aging, they have increased risk to develop shingles due to reactive the herpes virus in the body. According to Conceicao and Shostak (2015), the…

The varicella zoster virus (VZV) is a virus that is transmitted by droplets and direct contact. One of the diseases caused by the Varicella Zoster virus is a highly contagious disease known as chickenpox. Chickenpox is common in children and is easily spread from one person to another (Chowdhury, Siddique, Haque, Ali, Biswas, S., Biswas, P. K., & Ahasan, 2014). Some usual symptoms of chickenpox that may show up 1-2 days prior to the rash include fever, tiredness, loss of appetite, and headache.…

Little Tommy has come to the family practice with a runny nose, frequent blowing, large nasal blisters, nasal lesions, and nasal scabs that have a dried crusts. These lesions are continuing to drain. The lesions are now on his forearm. When conducting the physical examination, the examiner found purulent rhinorrhea that are 0.5 to 1 cm in size in the areas of the nose, mouth, and radial side of the forearm. The likely name of this childhood disease is varicella zoster virus (VZV), commonly…

Shingles (Herpes Zoster) is identified as painful skin rash that usually appears in a band, a strip, or a small area on one side of the face or body. Although shingles can technically occur anywhere on the body, it will most often appear as a single band of blisters that wraps around on one side of the torso. Shingles is most prevalent in older individuals and those who have weak immune systems often due to stress, injury, and other medicines. According to the Center for Disease Control and…

On October 7, 2016 Hurricane Mathew passed by Jacksonville, Florida causing wide spread damage to many areas in northeast Florida. With the affects still impacting many residents, including myself, I decided to focus this essay on an industry whose business has been affected by the hurricane. While normally you might think that the hurricane causes a negative effect on businesses, in this instance it is just the opposite. Many home owners incurred roof damage as a result of the storm, which has…

decade, Zotavax. Insurance companies have agreed to cover the cost of Shingrix which the maker, GlaxoSmithKline, estimates to be $280 for 2 doses. Data from the CDC shows that almost ⅓ of all people will acquire shingles. Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is caused by the varicella-zoster…

Varicella, which is also known as chickenpox is a contagious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus. The virus spreads mainly from touching or breathing in the virus particles that come from varicella blisters and possibly through tiny droplets from infected people that get into the air after they breathe or talk. People who are at risk of developing varicella are infants, children, adolescents and adults. However, varicella is usually contracted in children. Even if someone has received…

Shingles in Children and Teens (Shingles in children) Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus and after an infection has passed, the virus remains in the body in a dormant state in the nerve root endings in the body. The virus, however, can be reactivated by a number of triggers and causes shingles. While the occurrence of shingles is typical in older adults, long after they were initially infected, in rare instances children can develop shingles. Shingles in children and teen can…