Can you get shingles on palms of hands?

Shingles rash on the palm of a man’s hand While shingles tends to develop on your body or face, it can appear anywhere on your skin.

Can shingles cause tingling in hands?

Typically, shingles only affects a small part of one side of your body, which can include the hands, arms, legs, and feet. You may feel a tingling or numbness in the affected area.

Is itching common with shingles?

Signs & Symptoms Shingles is a painful rash that develops on one side of the face or body. The rash consists of blisters that typically scab over in 7 to 10 days and fully clears up within 2 to 4 weeks. Before the rash appears, people often have pain, itching, or tingling in the area where it will develop.

How do you treat shingles on the hands?

Shingles can cause severe pain, so your doctor also may prescribe:

  1. Capsaicin topical patch (Qutenza)
  2. Anticonvulsants, such as gabapentin (Neurontin)
  3. Tricyclic antidepressants, such as amitriptyline.
  4. Numbing agents, such as lidocaine, delivered via a cream, gel, spray or skin patch.

What causes shingles on hands?

The shingles rash is associated with an inflammation of nerves beneath the skin. Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus — the same virus that causes chickenpox. Anyone who’s had chickenpox may develop shingles. After you recover from chickenpox, the virus enters your nervous system and lies dormant for years.

Can shingles affect both hands?

Occasionally, two or three nerves next to each other are affected. Very rarely, shingles can cause more widespread infection, or can affect both sides of the body, but this is usually only in people with a weakened immune system.

What are the final stages of shingles?

The stages of shingles are tingling pain, followed by a burning feeling and a red rash, then blistering, and finally the blisters will crust over.

What does shingles on your hands look like?

It consists of red patches of skin with small blisters (vesicles) that look very similar to early chickenpox. Shingles usually clears in 2 to 3 weeks and rarely recurs. A close-up picture of herpes zoster skin lesions. Four small blisters are shown with redness around them.