8-Minute Update - Shingles - Fact & Fiction
Update: 2021-09-28
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Shingles - Fact & Fiction
What Is Shingles?
About a third of all Americans will get it in their lifetimes. That’s 1 million per year. Half of the people who reach age 85 will have had shingles at some point.
Myth: It’s Not Contagious
The open blisters of the rash can’t pass on shingles, but they can spread the chickenpox virus to someone who’s never had it. And that can lead to a later shingles outbreak.
Myth: It’s Gone in a Few Days
About 40% of people who get shingles feel a burning, shooting pain for months or years after the rash is gone. It’s called postherpetic neuralgia, or PHN.
Check out the details about shingles in this fast paced podcast.
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