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What Are the Complications of Shingles?

Shingles complications may include:

• Scarring
• Hearing loss
• Bacterial skin infections
• Changes in vision, including potential vision loss
• Paralysis on one side of the face
• Pneumonia
• Inflammation of the brain (encephalitis)
• Muscle weakness
• Vertigo
• Long-term nerve pain called postherpetic neuralgia (PHN)
• Allodynia (pain from the slightest touch of the skin such as a slight breeze over the skin or contact of clothing on the skin)

• To know more about long-term nerve pain