What are internal shingles (health)?

Answer by  Mabel (48)

Internal shingles is when your nervous system is attacked with like chicken pox symptoms through out your body. You feel pain like and flu like symptoms all over and then you get rashes with blisters appearing in your body.

Answer by  PAtobeDU12 (239)

It is caused by the same virus as chicken pox, Varicella zoster. Shingles occurs when the virus reactivates after being dormant. It may cause a rash or infect organs internally.

Answer by  elb (1105)

Shingles is the reactivation of the chickenpox virus later in life, always along the path of a nerve. Instead of pain and blisters on the skin, internal shingles refers to reactivated zoster virus in an internal organ. Some doctors say it's extremely rare; others diagnose it more readily.

Answer by  vietnamgirls (1177)

Shingles is caused by the same virus as chickenpox but is not contagious. Aside from causing a painful rash it can also attack internal organs.

Answer by  pink6677 (35)

Shingles are an infection that caused painful skin blisters. This virus can be transmitted through various contact and most often affect adults. You can have a recurrance of this virus from time to time. Bed rest is usually part of the solution.