Shingles

Herpes Zoster most commonly known as Shingles is a painful skin rash often happens after the chicken pox subsides. This is a virus infected disease with blisters and painful rash that can happen in any part of the body including eyes and face. The virus can remain latent in the nerves till it gets opportunity to break through the nerves and infects the skin. The symptoms include fever, headache, and pin pricking pain with itching. In severe cases the rash forms blisters full of infected liquid along with high fever. Eventually the blisters are filled with infected blood and crusts are formed on them. The healing takes more than 10 days.