Recurrent shingles

Shingles is an acute skin disease caused by varicella-zoster virus, herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2, but what patients are most concerned about is the repeated occurrence of shingles? Against this Problems, experts believe that the occurrence of shingles and chickenpox is the same virus, in which the primary infection is chickenpox, and then the virus may enter the root ganglia after the spinal cord or the sensory ganglia of the cranial nerve and lurk, but the latent The virus can no longer cause symptoms, or it can be reactivated years later to cause shingles. In addition, when the immune system declines due to certain other diseases, or when immunosuppressive products are used, the virus may cause repeated attacks.