There’s a potential new treatment for people who develop shingles that spread to the eye. Doctors say about 8% of shingles cases impact the eyes, and now, for the first time there’s a new treatment ...

The varicella-zoster virus is responsible for about 1 million new shingles cases in the U.S. each year—and shingles vision side effects occur in about 80,000 of them. Despite the relative rarity of ...

Shingles, a painful, blistering skin rash caused by the same virus as chicken pox, has a sister disease, herpes zoster ophthalmicus (HZO), or ocular shingles. HZO is a similar-looking infection that ...

Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus — the same virus that causes chickenpox. If you’ve had chickenpox, the virus can lie dormant in your body’s nerve tissue for years when suddenly it’s ...

Shingles of any type is believed to affect around 1 in 3 people in their lifetime and it’s estimated that up to 1 million new cases of shingles will occur in the United States each year. Shingles (or ...

But did you know that shingles also can affect the eye? Ophthalmic shingles is one particular version of the disease that can have some serious side effects that ultimately can cause permanent damage ...

DEAR DR. GOTT: I am a 73-year-old female on no regular medications. I recently noticed a burning sensation on my face near my right eye. Within a day or so, my eyelid started swelling and became red ...