Patient/caregiver was educated on complications of shingles as follows: Facial paralysis: Involvement of the facial nerve with shingles can result in facial paralysis, with inability to blink the eye on the side of face affected, drooping & angulation of mouth on the involved side of face, slurred speech, and drooling. Hearing loss: Shingles can also involve the auditory nerve helping for hearing and balance, leading to ear pain, ringing sensation in the ears, vertigo, balance [...]

Patient/caregiver was educated on complications of shingles as follows: Reactivation of shingles: Strong and intact immune system can help keeping the virus latent, thus preventing it’s reactivation. The latent virus has the potential to get reactivated in future, especially under conditions of compromised immune system, resulting in a fresh episode of shingles. Postherpetic neuralgia: The shingles activation is mostly self-limited, with the burning pain and itching continuing for two to four weeks, until the rash [...]

Patient/caregiver was educated on complications of shingles as follows Pain: The activation of virus in the nerves can spread down along the nerve path it is living in, causing a painful fluid-filled blistering rash with itching and burning along the distribution of the nerve involved. The involved skin could be very sensitive to touch. Chickenpox infection: The fluid-filled blisters can grow bigger and burst open, releasing the fluid that can be contagious and spreads the [...]

Patient/caregiver was educated on signs and symptoms of shingles as follows: The fluid-filled blisters can grow bigger and burst open, releasing the fluid that can be contagious and spreads the varicella-zoster virus to others, causing chickenpox infection to immunodeficient patients and individuals who failed to complete the vaccination schedule for chickenpox. The open blister sites can crust & scab in due course of time and resolve. Once the rash scabs, the individual is no more [...]

Patient/caregiver was educated on signs and symptoms of shingles as follows: Shingles is a painful skin rash, caused by the virus causing chickenpox, varicella-zoster. In individuals with history of chickenpox infection, the virus can live latent and inactive in various nerves of the body for years. Strong and intact immune system can help keeping the virus latent, thus preventing it’s reactivation. The latent virus has the potential to get reactivated in future, especially under conditions [...]