Can Shingles Spread On Your Body By Touch
Although shingles can occur anywhere on your body it most often appears as a single stripe of blisters that wraps around either the left or the right side of your torso.
Can shingles spread on your body by touch. It often develops on one side of the body and it can affect the face back abdomen mouth and internal organs. It was never painful but i could feel that it was there. Shingles itself is not contagious. It spread as it does along the nerve on the side of my neck and a bit onto my jaw and behind the ear.
Yes you can shingles are very contagious. You will typically develop a rash about 1 5 days. The varicella zoster virus is spread when someone comes into contact with an oozing blister. We had a person come into our er and we did not know that the person had shingles and needless to say because of staff working on many floors every floor.
According to the ny department of health the risk of spreading the virus is low if the rash is covered. If you have shingles you should keep your rash covered not touch or scratch the rash and wash your hands often to prevent the spread of the virus. So the answer is yes you can spread shingles to other parts of your body by touching the rash then like touching my face my face will get the shingles yes or no. You can t get shingles from someone with shingles but you can get chickenpox.
Shingles is caused by the varicella zoster virus the same virus that causes chickenpox. Vzv spreads through direct contact with fluid from the rash blisters. Shingles involves a painful rash. The virus that causes shingles varicella zoster virus vzv can spread from a person with active shingles and cause chickenpox in someone who had never had chickenpox or received chickenpox vaccine.