Shingles are a skin condition that causes blotchy red patches and a painful eruption on the skin’s surface. The same virus that causes chickenpox is also responsible for shingles, known as herpes zoster. In most cases, the virus shows up like chickenpox and stays dormant in this state after chickenpox is gone but later erupts. Then, vesicular skin lesions and excruciating skin pain are the symptoms of this virus. These lesions appear anywhere on the skin, especially along the nerve root distribution.
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