Jean Hill, 67, has urged extra caution when staying out in the sun after a dose in the heat caused her to develop shingles.

Watch as Jean explains how falling asleep in her garden for “15 minutes” led to her eye becoming swollen shut and blistered - ...

The complications escalated as she was hit with shingles, a distressing rash brought on by viral infection, heightened with ...

A woman was left in intense pain after falling asleep in her garden. Grandmother Jean Hill developed an infection and ...

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Most commonly, shingles causes a painful rash that may appear as blisters across the stomach area. Sometimes, the shingles rash occurs around the eye, neck or face.

Skin problems The shingles rash comes with blisters that break open and crust over. Keep them clean and dry so you don’t get a bacterial infection.

“The shingles rash is a raised rash on one side of the body, typically on the face or trunk,” says Yadav. But the rash can be more widespread (similar to a chicken pox rash) in people with ...

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Later that week Gill developed a rash along the right side of her face, so she returned to the urgent care center, where a different provider diagnosed her with shingles. Although she was young ...