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Shingles Part 1 (Teacher: Michael)
Medically, shingles is called herpes zoster, comprising
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circumscribed set of inflamed blisters caused by
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varicella zoster virus, which also gives you chickenpox.
In
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Greek language,
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word for girdle is zoster and shingles is half
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girdle of small red spots, which turn into tiny balloons or vesicles.
The virus attacks one nerve supplying
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skin, so
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rash can occur anywhere on
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body supplied by that particular nerve.
Unfortunately, when
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child gets chickenpox some of
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viruses causing
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condition may escape destruction by
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immune system of
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body and lie dormant for years in
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nerve ganglions of
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peripheral nervous system -
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parts of nerves near
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spinal column.
As people get older,
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dormant virus can 'wake up' and becomes activated, causing 'localised' chickenpox.
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trigger for this is unknown, except that it must be
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failure, of the
body's defence mechanism.
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