You can develop shingles on the face. The rash looks like a group of small blisters or lesions that can itch, burn, or tingle. With treatment, the lesions and pain should subside in three to five ...

While shingles looks bright red on light skin, it often appears purplish, dark pink, or dark brown on skin of color. Shingles is a condition that’s caused by a reactivation of the varicella ...

Dr. Miller says cleaning your rash once a day is plenty. If you choose to do so in the shower, use lukewarm water; high heat ...

A shingles rash most often affects one side of a person’s torso or face but can occur anywhere on the body. Treatment options may differ for people with severe shingles. For example, doctors may ...

Shingles, or herpes zoster, is a skin rash that causes blisters across one side of the body. The same virus that causes chickenpox, the varicella-zoster virus, causes shingles. Disseminated ...

The first symptoms of shingles can include localized burning, tingling, twinging, or numb sensations on particular affected areas of skin. Usually, this happens on just one side of the body.

Baby your skin once it’s healed too. Shingles rarely leaves behind major scars, but it depends on the severity of your rash, Dr. Miller says. If you have a lot of blisters and pick or pull off ...