How can you tell the difference between genital shingles and shingles?

Answer 1

You get Shingles from the virus Herpes Zoster. After one is exposed to and has chickenpox, this virus stays in the system and is sometimes re-activated as the Shingles.
Shingles are the adult form of chickenpox. They are very dangerous for adults. The form along the spinal column.
You get an attack of chicken pox. After this attack, the virus remain hidden in posterior root ganglion of your nervous system. How does it evades the immunity is not known till date. When ever your body immunity becomes low, the viruses come out and the vesicles erupt along the distribution of the sensory nerve fibres.
You probably had chickenpox when you were young, and something caused that virus to become active, which is shingles.

Answer 2

A person gets shingles by first getting chickenpox. When the acute stage of chicken pox goes away, the virus remains alive in your system. At a later date the chicken pox virus becomes active and causes shingles. Today a vaccine is available for chicken pox. A parent who refuses to get a child vaccinated could not only cause problems when the child catches chicken pox, but could also cause problems when that child becomes an older adult suffering with shingles.

Answer 3

Shingles is a viral disease. It is a painful rash on a person's skin. It usually contains even blisters. Getting infected with varicella zoster virus causes the acute illness, known as chickenpox. That same virus that causes chickenpox, also causes shingles.

Answer 4

shingles look like little blisters filled with fluid i no dis because iv got them n its not very nice it stings and is sore HELP

Answer 5

These aren't really connected. Shingles is caused by the same virus as chickenpox, so if you had chickenpox as a child, you are at an increased risk of shingles.

Answer 6

Genital shingles is on your genitals.

Answer 7

With a doctors help.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

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