Monday, September 22, 2008

Shingles

After the camp, I got shingles.
I know that the shingles is caused by varicella-zoster virus, which is known as chickenpox virus. I heard that the virus remains in the nerve cell bodies after the acute chickenpox in childhood, and it breaks out of there and travel down nerve axons under immunosuppressed conditions. Finally it causes viral infection of the skin in the region of the nerve and develops the characteristic skin rash.
Perhaps my immune system was weakened by fatigue. I got a painful shingles rash on my body, limited one side of my chest and my back.
I did not obtain medical care, but the rash and pain got better in a few weeks.

I felt very itching and tingle pain. I hope I never catch the disease again.

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