Shingles

[Sarah]

A rash that occurs on the abdomen and is extremely uncomfortable. Should seek medical attention and dont rub on anyone (especially the young or elderly!).

[Sarah]

An awesome dance that is danced in Hawaii commonly danced by females with pink grass skirts.
you move your hips, and wave your arms in a random ass way.

[Sarah]

This game was created by students at S.t Thomas More school. The game consists of kneeing people in their thighs untill they surrender.

[Sarah]

Something that is good is shingles. Another new word for cool.

[Lizzy Liz]

Shingles is a painful skin rash caused by a viral infection that results from reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus, the virus that causes chickenpox.

What causes the virus to reactive is usually unknown, but sometimes reactivation occurs when a disorder or drug weakens the immune system.
Shingles causes a painful rash of fluid-filled blisters and sometimes results in chronic pain in the affected area.
Doctors diagnose shingles when typical blisters appear on a strip of skin.
The chickenpox vaccine and, for people aged 50 and over, the shingles vaccine can help prevent shingles.
Antiviral drugs, if started before blisters appear, can help relieve symptoms and help them resolve sooner, but pain relievers, including opioids, are often needed.

Chickenpox and shingles are caused by the varicella-zoster virus:

Chickenpox is the initial infection.
Shingles is a reactivation of the virus, usually years later.

The varicella-zoster virus is a member of the herpesvirus family (herpesvirus type 3). So shingles is sometimes called herpes zoster.
During chickenpox, the virus spreads in the bloodstream and infects collections of nerve cells (ganglia) of the spinal or cranial nerves. The virus remains in the ganglia in an inactive (dormant or latent) state. The virus may never cause symptoms again, or it may reactivate many years later. When it reactivates, the virus travels down the nerve fibers to the skin, where it creates painful sores resembling those of chickenpox. This outbreak of sores (shingles) almost always appears on a strip of the skin over the infected nerve fibers and only on one side of the body. This strip of skin, the area supplied by nerve fibers from a single spinal nerve region, is called a dermatome. Sores may also appear on the dermatomes next to the affected dermatome.
Unlike herpes simplex virus infections, which can recur many times, there is usually only one outbreak of shingles in a person

[Tariq Zaki]

An acute, painful inflammation of the nerve ganglia, with a skin eruption often forming a girdle around the middle of the body. It is caused by the same virus as chickenpox.

[Tina]

small, round stones that cover a beach or the ground by the edge of a river: