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The severity and duration of an attack of shingles can be significantly reduced by immediate treatment with antiviral drugs. Pain medications may also help with the pain.
If it persists, it would be best to see your doctor for further evaluation and management.
Take care and regards.
Can I take a bath with shingles? I was diagnosed with shingles today. They presented on the lower buttocks and just shy of my anal sphincter, and are causing me intense pain. Any suggestions on specific care of these areas?
Thanks,
Dahlia
If she had a history of chicken pox, this could be shingles or herpes zoster. Shingles is an outbreak of rash or blisters on the skin. The first sign of shingles is often burning or tingling pain, or sometimes numbness or itch, in one particular location on only one side of the body. After several days or a week, a rash of fluid-filled blisters, similar to chickenpox, appears in one area on one side of the body. Shingles pain can be mild or intense. The most common location for shingles is a band, called a dermatome, spanning one side of the trunk around the waistline.
The severity and duration of an attack of shingles can be significantly reduced by immediate treatment with antiviral drugs. Pain medications may also help with the pain.
If it persists, it would be best to see your doctor for further evaluation and management.
Take care and regards.
Thanks,
Dahlia