Shingles Alternative Treatment Herbal Treatment

Shingles alternative treatment herbal treatment

        In chickenpox, the virus enters and multiplies in the upper airway, passes into the blood and reaches the skin, its main target. There, it induces a characteristic vesicular rash in the shape of small droplets. Once the rash disappeared, the virus settles in the sensory nerve ganglia (posterior spinal roots, cranial ridges) where it will remain permanently. Reactivation depends on specific factors which the principal is the age and decreased immune defenses that occurs when the body is suffering from cancer, infection or a neurological disease. Shingles can also occur after radiotherapy or chemotherapy.

        Shingles is a disease of the skin and is only slightly contagious, as people believe. This is actually an infectious disease caused by herpes zoster. Herpes zoster is the virus that causes chickenpox.