Herpes zoster

Herpes zoster virus or popularly known as shingles, is the reactivation of the chicken pox virus, which can be reactivated through psychological stress, x-ray treatments, drug therapy, or surgery. It is a viral infection that surfaces on the human skin in the form of a rash. Typically, the skin rash will appear on the upper region of the body and only affect the left or right side of the patient’s abdomen, back, arms, neck, or face. Shingles is only passed on through direct contact with the…

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…

and a blister- like rash which causes great discomfort and itching. With fluid-filled bumps that contain clear fluids that when it burst can be contagious and spread the infection to others. Varicella zoster virus can stay in the body because it is a member of the herpes virus. Like the other herpes virus is stays in the body after being infected. The pathophysiology of chicken pox is acquired by inhalation of airborne respiratory droplets from an infected host. According to the…

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…

to appear on that area of skin. Shingles and chickenpox are caused by the varicella-zoster virus. Shingles is a painful rash. The rash will only appear on one side of the body. The rash may appear as a stripe of blisters. Shingles can still be painful after the rash is gone. Shingles is also called Herpes Zoster. Shingles is usually diagnosed by the appearance of the rash. Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus multiplying. It usually comes up when the immune system is weakened. There…

Herpes zoster (shingles): a skin condition caused by varicella-zoster virus, the virus causing chickenpox (a childhood illness). Shingles is common among people with previous chickenpox history. The virus may remain inactive in the nerves for a long time and become active again as a consequence of weak immune system (elderly, cancer patients). The virus targets the epidermis and cause painful rashes that appear as clusters of fluid-filled blisters. Although blisters may occur anywhere on the…

catch the decease. As experience, I know having the chickenpox was not the greatest childhood memory for myself and I am sure for many others as well. Chickenpox is a highly common illness, which mostly affects children. The varicella zoster virus, a member of the herpes virus family, is what causes chickenpox, which is highly contagious. Most cases of chickenpox occur in children 1 to 14 years of age, however some people don’t get chickenpox until their early 20's (Fordney 2013,p.366). The…

2.13.3. Isolation and identification of IBDV: Isolation of IBDV in chicken embryos: For initial isolation of IBDV the CAM was more sensitive route than the yolk and allantoic sac routes. Gross lesions observed in embryo were edematous distention of the abdominal region, cutaneous congestion and petechial hemorrhages, particularly along feather tracts, occasional hemorrhages on toe joints and in cerebral region, mottled-necrosis and ecchymotic hemorrhages in the liver (latter stages) pales…

Enterobiasis or oxyuriasis is the most common helminthic infection in children of all social strata in the United State. Although it is primarily a parasite of young children, rapid maturation of the egg allows it to be readily transmitted from child to child and from child to adult, in both family and institutional settings (Henry’s Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods 22nd edition). Pinworm infection is caused by Enterobius vermicularis. E vermicularis is a white slender…

Shingles is a virus that spread quickly and causes a rash. Even though it isn't really life-threatening its highly painful. Shingles can show up on different parts of the body. It could show up as an arrangement of blister that goes around the body part or area. Shingles are caused by a herpesvirus that also causes chickenpox. After chickenpox has occurred, shingles could occur in the body within years later. People who develop shingles could have vision loss, neurological problems, skin…