BODY SIGNAL ALERT PIMPLES, PAINFUL, ON ONE SIDE OF YOUR FACE: DESCRIPTION AND POSSIBLE MEDICAL PROBLEMS
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If you had chicken pox as a kid, chances are very good that the cluster of painful pimples that appears on one side of your face is shineles. Before the pimples arrive, you’ll feel a sharp pain in the area where the pimples will appear, along with a burning sensation. The rash usually lasts about a week, but the pain may stick around for months aftet the pimples disappear. If the rash occurs near your eyes, you may find you have temporary or permanent problems with your vision.
Shingles, which can also appear on the side of your body just below your chest, is caused by the herpes zoster virus, the same virus that causes chicken pox in children. Shingles appear when the dormant virus is reactivated, which happens most often in adults over the age of 50.
It’s believed that the virus spends its latent years in the ends of nerves that originate in the spine. It’s not known exactly why it becomes active again—and not every adult who had chicken pox as a kid will get shingles. However, the virus’s genesis in the nerves accounts for the sharp, localized pain that characterizes shingles.
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