Taking into account World Health Organizationofficial statement herpetic viral infections are rather widely spread - far more than 50 percent people living on our planet are contaminated. Although their presence plays quite positive role as immunity system "trainer", sometimes on various conditions diseases activation (like shingles) is possible.
Shingles representation for females
First of all we should notice that women suffer shingles inflection appearance not as often as men. It may be caused both by higher immunity system adaptation level or improved mental stability - anyway specific female organism peculiarities influence on such investigation pictures seriously.
When regular chickenpox disease agent contaminates patient organism (usually this infection is very easily treated in childhood and much heavier in adult age) it calls for well-known pictures appearance - specific bubbles with liquid inside itching all the time until becoming dry. After recovery women and men both receive full immunity protection against chickenpox which never comes back, but virus does not leave afterwards. Staying asleep Varizella Zoster do not express itself for long time, in most cases forever. But heavy external impacts (psychological stresses, physical overloading, strong diseases, etc.) may depress person body immune reserves therefore breaking protective barriers for herpetic intruder return in shingles pictures form.
If physical loadings are not so much met for women then mental stresses may become serious danger on this problem appearance. Females become more liable to possible psychological impacts. They know certain cases when women who have not had any signs of shingles before were representing characteristic symptoms after heavy scandals taking place in family or at work. Yet shingles may be provoked with strong overcooling or excessive ultraviolet insolation weakening skin strength therefore providing conditions for easier virus reactivation.
Inflammation pictures in women are rather general; they are represented with strong pain over affected nervous nodes causing serious problem long after infection will be removed. Characteristic sign providing serious inconvenience to women is shingles eruption. Those wet bubbles grouped over red spotty skin territories in couple of days turn dry but new groups may appear according to viral contamination distribution through nervous system. Therefore rash pictures will look segmented showing one-sided placement. Though each group of bubbles (called papulas) represent similar development level we may see evident deviations of groups growth. Thus if disease is not timely treated in proper way it may lead to wide distribution of infection up to necrotic shingles form causing scars appearance over affected skin territories.
Now some words about specific pictures of shingles disease in women - and first of all about pregnancy period features. Many females having virus dormant form represent characteristic sickness symptoms under pregnancy circumstances. Hormone balance deviations provoke development of Varizella Zoster pictures; sometimes contamination may be even expressed with no any visual signs. However for future child this infection is extremely dangerous - his immune system actually does not even exist yet and, of course, no preventive immune protection against chickenpox presence. Thus, serious complications for unborn child health become possible and the only way to limit such possibility is to remove possible virus activation factors.