Shingles Treatment and Prevention

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Family Physician, discusses shingles and its treatment and prevention.

Family Physician, discusses shingles and its treatment and prevention.

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Featuring Dr. Daniel Ngui, BSc (P.T), MD, CFPC, FCFP, Family Physician

Duration: 2 minutes, 22 seconds

Presenter: Dr. Daniel Ngui, Family Doctor, Vancouver, BC

Local Practitioners: Family Doctor

Shingles Video Quiz ( 543 participated.)

Treatment and Prevention of Shingles Video Quiz

Questions
 
True
False
1

The chances of getting shingles in your lifetime can be as high as 1 in 3 in adults over 50

2

Postherpetic neuralgia is a condition caused by shingles which can be painful and last weeks to sometimes months

3

The vaccine to prevent shingles does not help improve the effects of postherpetic neuralgia

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