Shingles Rash Symptoms

Shingles rash symptoms

        Shingles can however also occur during childhood, but it is noted almost exclusively in children whose mothers presented a chickenpox during pregnancy or in children who developed chickenpox before the age of 4 years or who are immunocompromised.The localization of vesicles on the thorax (intercostal zoster) is the most frequent (50% of patients in case). Generally the affected areas are most often the trunk and less commonly the face, eyes, neck, arm or leg. Shingles rash symptoms is almost always localized to one half of the body.

• Appearance of a mild fever.
• Burning in the area of skin corresponding to the affected nerves.
• Pains are burning, sometimes stormy, sometimes moderate.
• Decreased local skin sensitivity.
• Increase volume of glands (glandular swelling).
• Eruption of "closets" in varying numbers, located in the area of skin corresponding to the nerve reached, whose beginning is a simple reddening of the skin.
• Thrust vesicles containing a liquid (the same that causes chickenpox) whose appearance is classic half-belt.
• Wilting vesicles in 2 to 3 days.
• Appearance of a crust formed and persists for ten days before falling.
• A depressed area and depigmented (white scar) follows the crust.