However it is possible for shingles to develop on the face and in the eye.
Treatment for shingles on face and eye.
Shingles on your face can cause various complications depending on where the rash appears on your face.
Shingles is a disease that causes a painful blistering rash to form on the body and sometimes the face.
Because the eye can become involved later in the disease process it is important to follow up with the eye doctor even if your eye appears fine at first.
A person with shingles will usually break out in a painful rash that spreads across the upper body.
Patients who have shingles on the face should get antiviral treatment for shingles and also see an eye doctor right away to monitor for ocular shingles.
One of the parts of the body that these rashes appear is on face around and in the eye.
Shingles around the eye is a serious condition.
The varicella zoster virus causes it.
The virus affects any part of the body without prejudice but is more commonly found on the body torso or trunk the neck the face ears and eyes.