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Friday 20 April 2018

Caretakers Need To Know About Shingles Rash Symptoms

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By Carolyn Brooks


Whether the information is for your own personal need or you are a caretaker, it is important to know the shingles rash symptoms. If caught early on, the length of stay can be shortened. In addition, this is often confused with other conditions, so such an awareness can help prevent exorbitant medical costs for labs and radiology charges.

As a child it was chickenpox. As mature adults it becomes something so much worse. Painful and troublesome, this remnant of chickenpox can erupt at any time from middle-age on.

The initial thing one will notice is pain in a specific area. For some, this pain can be quite acute, and is easily mistaken for other conditions such as kidney infections or a cardiac event. For those who work in the home health field, be sure to ask your patients if they have had this, and where their outbreak occurred, for future reference.

It is not uncommon for a person to experience the pain, but never have an actual outbreak of the rash occur. While one is still able to do so, making some personal medical notes about their childhood chicken pox can be helpful. Especially if there was a particularly extensive outbreak on their torso, where these outbreaks as well as pain are most frequently experienced.

Having the outbreak occur on the right or the left of the torso is painful, but generally heals without further problems or complications to the patient. In some cases the outbreaks occur on the face, and these need to be seen by a doctor right away. If it impacts the eyes, one can experience a permanent disability of sight as a result.

If one happens to be a cancer or AIDS patient, getting to a doctor is extremely important. The impact of outbreaks for most people is minor, but for those individuals with weakened immune systems, it can be more severe. As a good rule of thumb, one who is over the age of sixty ought to see a doctor when one occurs.

Anyone over the age of sixty should consider seeing their doctor in the event of an outbreak, no matter what their health status is. However, this is even more important if they have an autoimmune disease or are receiving chemo. Naturally, such details should have already been shared with any caretakers they have so they can make the right decisions on their behalf.

There is some hope on the horizon for sufferers of these outbreaks. Two vaccines have been developed which are supposed to target the outbreaks themselves, long before they actually occur. It is for anyone age fifty or above, and while it can eradicate or at least lessen the impact, they are not intended to help those patients who are suffering a current outbreak.

While many do, not every person who had chickenpox has this to look forward to. Apparently, it is the weakening of our immunity that gives rise to these outbreaks, and not everyone experiences that in old age. Perhaps the chickenpox vaccination will be able to delete this condition from the human organism for good.




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