Symptoms of Shingles Virus - Causes & Treatment

When the itchy red spots of childhood chickenpox disappear and life returns to normal, the battle with the virus that causes chickenpox seems to be won. But for all too many of us this triumph of the body's immune system over the virus that causes chickenpox is only temporary. The virus has not been destroyed, but lays low, ready to strike again later in life. This second eruption of the chickenpox virus is the disease called shingles.

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Reducing Shingles Pain 
A University of Colorado Health Sciences Center study suggests that using intravenous acyclovir followed by oral valacyclovir may effectively reduce postherpetic neuralgia resulting from shingles. Comment?

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A New Threat From Old Ailments

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Jul. 30--Susie Hudson was 11 months old when, to her parents' surprise, she broke out with chickenpox. "We had no idea how she got it," said her mother, Stephanie Hudson of Arlington.

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Novartis Says FDA OKs One-day Herpes Treatment 

The treatment of acute herpes zoster (shingles). In clinical trials, the most commonly reported adverse events vs. placebo were headache (zoster: 22.7% vs. 17.8%; episodic: 13.5%

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