Expert answers to your questions about shingles symptoms, pain relief, prevention, and protecting your family's health.
7 February 2024
If you’re expecting a baby in Singapore, you’ve probably heard about confinement centres. They’re a modern take on a traditional practice, offering postnatal care for new mothers. These centres are designed to help you recover and rejuvenat…
Continue reading16 December 2020
If you’ve asked the question, how to treat shingles painlessly? The simple answer would be to wait it out and do nothing. After all, in cases like this, the virus is dormant and can not be transmitted to other people through any kind of phy…
Read article2 November 2020
What does shingles look like in children? The appearance of shingles in a child may look similar to the rash that develops after exposure to the virus. The most noticeable thing in children is that it causes a discoloration or redness of th…
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What are the causes of Shingles? What causes the pain and discomfort that one gets when having this viral infection? Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), which is a virus. This virus is contagious, so one gets it by comin…
Read article23 July 2020
Why does shingles feel so painful? Being vaccinated against shingles, by definition, is your best means to prevent shingling pain. However, this is no ordinary painful rash but rather the itchy, painful blisters are not just the nastiest pa…
Read article21 July 2020
“Can shingles be spread?” is a common question many individuals ask when they first become aware that they may have the virus. Unfortunately, the answer isn’t always a simple yes or no. Unfortunately, there are a variety of different infect…
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