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Shingles: Symptoms, Causes, & Treatment
March 17, 2020
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Dr. Zina Semenovskaya
Dr. Semenovskaya specializes in emergency medicine, and received her medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College. She is currently the medical director at Remote Emergency Medicine Consulting, LLC and splits her time working clinically as an emergency medicine attending in California and Alaska. She is the first of our doctors to be fluent in Russian.
Many people are familiar with chicken pox from a young age, but did you know the same virus can lie dormant and reappear years later? This condition, known as shingles, is a common viral infection often accompanied by a painful rash. While the shingles vaccine and early treatment can help prevent or shorten an infection, one out of every three people in the United States will develop shingles in their lifetime. Despite some pain and discomfort, shingles symptoms are rarely life-threatening, though it’s important to be mindful of potential serious complications and to know when to get help.
In this article I’ll explore:
“If you have shingles, you can pass the varicella-zoster virus through direct contact with your shingles rash, but only to people who are not immune to chicken pox.”
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by
Dr. Zina Semenovskaya
Dr. Semenovskaya specializes in emergency medicine, and received her medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College. She is currently the medical director at Remote Emergency Medicine Consulting, LLC and splits her time working clinically as an emergency medicine attending in California and Alaska. She is the first of our doctors to be fluent in Russian.
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