Can Shingles Spread On Your Body By Touch

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.

Can shingles spread on your body by touch.

The stages of shingles are tingling pain followed by a burning feeling and a red rash then blistering and finally the blisters will crust over. 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. Shingles is caused by the varicella zoster virus the same virus that causes chickenpox.

Shingles cannot be passed from one person to another. According to the ny department of health the risk of spreading the virus is low if the rash is covered. 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. You will typically develop a rash about 1 5 days.

No source i could find even recommended washing hands after touching the rash before touching other parts of your body except for the eyes which would be a basic precaution if spreading the rash were a concern in not immunocompromised patients. Shingles itself is not contagious. The varicella zoster virus is spread when someone comes into contact with an oozing blister. 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.

Shingles involves a painful rash. Vzv spreads through direct contact with fluid from the rash blisters. It was never painful but i could feel that it was there. It often develops on one side of the body and it can affect the face back abdomen mouth and internal organs.