Shingles - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic
Aug 20, 2022 · Shingles is a viral infection that causes a painful rash. Shingles can occur anywhere on your body. It typically looks like a single stripe of blisters that wraps around the left side or the right side of your torso. Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus — the same virus that causes chickenpox.
Shingles - Diagnosis & treatment - Mayo Clinic
Aug 20, 2022 · Learn more about symptoms, causes, treatment and vaccine prevention of this painful condition affecting the nerves.
Zóster - Síntomas y causas - Mayo Clinic
Oct 25, 2022 · La causa del herpes zóster es el virus varicela-zóster, el mismo virus que provoca la varicela. Cualquiera que haya tenido varicela puede desarrollar herpes zóster. Después de recuperarte de la varicela, el virus ingresa en el sistema …
Ramsay Hunt syndrome - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic
Oct 12, 2021 · Ramsay Hunt syndrome (herpes zoster oticus) occurs when a shingles outbreak affects the facial nerve near one of your ears. In addition to the painful shingles rash, Ramsay Hunt syndrome can cause facial paralysis and hearing loss in the affected ear.
Zóster - Diagnóstico y tratamiento - Mayo Clinic
Oct 25, 2022 · Obtén más información sobre los síntomas, causas, tratamiento y vacunación preventiva de esta afección dolorosa que ataca el sistema nervioso.
Shingles vaccine: Should I get it? - Mayo Clinic
Jan 6, 2024 · Some people get shingles even with the vaccine. But the vaccine may reduce how bad shingles is and how long it lasts. The vaccine also can lower the risk of a shingles complication that causes shingles pain to go on long after the blisters have cleared. This is called postherpetic neuralgia.
Postherpetic neuralgia - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
Feb 10, 2023 · Postherpetic neuralgia (post-hur-PET-ik noo-RAL-juh) is the most common complication of shingles. It causes a burning pain in nerves and skin. The pain lasts long after the rash and blisters of shingles go away. The risk of postherpetic neuralgia rises with age.
Shingles: Not Just A Band of Blisters - Mayo Clinic News Network
Apr 1, 2015 · Shingles (herpes zoster) is a common condition in which the virus that causes chickenpox (varicella-zoster virus) reactivates after years of lying dormant in your body. As the virus reactivates, it causes pain and tingling and eventually a rash of short-lived blisters.
Genital herpes - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
Nov 22, 2022 · A person with HSV-1 in tissues of the mouth can pass the virus to the genitals of a sexual partner during oral sex. The newly caught infection is a genital herpes infection. Recurrent outbreaks of genital herpes caused by HSV-1 are often …
Chickenpox - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
Apr 19, 2023 · Chickenpox and shingles. If you've had chickenpox, you're at risk of a complication called shingles. The varicella-zoster virus stays in your nerve cells after the chickenpox rash goes away. Many years later, the virus can turn back on and cause shingles, a …