Shingles on the Head
Shingles blisters generally occur on one side of the body, common in the rib areas and around waist. A small percentage of patients, especially the elder people, are easier to get shingles on the head, which attack the trigeminal nerve & facial nerve and cause facial paralysis, earache, severe headache, keratitis, optic atrophy and other symptoms.
The shingles on the head have the following characteristics.
① Facial herpes zoster or shingles on scalp are more common occurred in the older people. Before the outbreak, patients, usually have the symptom which is similar to flu, some may be fever and vomiting.
② Shingles on scalp mostly occurs in spring and autumn, some patients just recover from extremely tired period;
③ Most patients have no headache history before.
④ In the early stage of shingles outbreak, in order to reduce pain and other complications, anti-viral, nerve nutrition and pain drugs are recommended.
It is trouble that if you have shingles on the head, as you can not see it and it is hard for your to clean the skin, as there is hair on the head, especially for women. Here is the case of shingles on the head just for your reference.
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Date |
Symptom |
Pain |
Picture |
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1st day |
At the beginning of shingles on scalp, people nearly did not notice it. There are only some bumps on the scalp and almost on pain. |
light |
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2nd day |
Obviously, there are bumps occurred. |
heavy |
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6th day |
May blisters can be seen. |
excruciating |
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8th day |
scabby bumps |
excruciating |
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12th day |
scabby bumps |
heavy |
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14th day |
plucked bumps |
heavy |
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18th day |
a chunk of shingles on the head |
Medium |
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36th day |
shingles patch and depressions on the head |
almost no pain |
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