Can You Get Shingles On Your Feet

Or have you had chickenpox as a kid.

Can you get shingles on your feet.

It s best to see your doctor. If yes it could be shinlges. The whole body could conceivably be affected as in chicken pox but not on both feet and nowhere else. But additional means to reduce sweating should be excluded so as not to provoke complications of the disease.

A rash can appear anywhere on the body but will be on only one side of the body the left or right because shingles travel along the nerves you only get them on one side or another. The mayo clinic notes that shingles usually present as a single band of blisters wrapping around one side of the torso. Shingles can turn up anywhere. Your doctor can usually diagnose your shingles right.

Someone with shingles is not contagious once the blisters have scabbed over and are no. Shingles can occur anywhere on the body including the feet according to the mayo clinic. I am a 44 year old female who has itchy toes and soles of. Shingles follow a nerve and it s generally on the upper torso.

Have you had them before. According to webmd shingles is a painful skin rash caused by the varicella zoster virus which also causes chicken pox. Avoid wearing shoes and socks that could irritate blisters and cause skin breaks. Shingles or herpes zoster is a viral infection caused by the chickenpox virus.

Shingles or herpes zoster occurs when the dormant chickenpox virus is reactivated in nerve tissues. Symptoms include pain and a rash on one side of the body. You may have a skin disease on the bottom of your feet. If not perhaps a strain.

Bacterial infection occurs when the blisters are broken and become infected. Although shingles itself cannot be transmitted the virus can be passed on possibly causing chickenpox. Severe cases of shingles can result in long term nerve pain vision loss and muscle weakness but the most likely complication of shingles on the feet is bacterial infection. Early symptoms include tingling and pain.

Always get a rash checked out though. The appearance of shingles on the feet complicates daily life activity in particular displacement.