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How to Treat Shingles in Children

How to Treat Shingles in Children

Shingles, or herpes zoster, is more likely to affect older children. If your child has a weakened immune system, for instance after illness, and they are exposed to the virus they are more likely to contract the disease. Shingles can only occur if the child has already had chickenpox (varicella-zoster). The infection attacks the nerves […]

How to Treat Shingles

How to Treat Shingles

Did you have chicken pox as a kid? If so, you remem­ber the pain and itchiness, and were probably relieved to learn you could only get chicken pox once. And techni­cally that is true, but a case of shingles will feel very much like that childhood illness — only worse. That is because shingles is […]