PCL 2- prognosis of shingles

-For most healthy people who receive treatment soon after the outbreak of blisters, the lesions heal, the pain subsides within 3 to 5 weeks
- blisters often leave no scars
-serious threat in immunosuppressed individuals — for example, those with HIV infection or who are receiving cancer treatments that can weaken their immune systems
-People who receive organ transplants are also vulnerable to shingles because they are given drugs that suppress the immune system.
-A person with a shingles rash can pass the virus to someone, usually a child, who has never had chickenpox, but the child will develop chickenpox, not shingles
-Sometimes, the pain in the area where the shingles occurred may last for months or years
-This pain is called postherpetic neuralgia
- It occurs when the nerves have been damaged after an outbreak of shingles.
-Pain ranges from mild to very severe pain.
-It is more likely to occur in people over 60 years.

Other complications may include:

* Another attack of shingles
* Blindness (if shingles occurs in the eye)
* Deafness
* Infection, including encephalitis or sepsissepsis (blood infection) in persons with weakened immune systems
* Bacterial skin infections
* Ramsay Hunt syndrome if shingles affected the nerves in the face