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Facts on Shingles

An episode of shingles can last for up to a month.

In this article:

What is shingles?

Symptoms

Causes

Diagnosis

Effect on your life

Treatment

How Chemist Online can help

Advice & Support

What is shingles?
Shingles can be a very painful health condition. It usually affects people over 50 years of age.

If you have had chickenpox in childhood, it is possible that the chickenpox virus has ‘stayed in your system’ lying dormant for years, but has then been reactivated in later life – causing shingles to develop (please see Symptoms section below).

About chickenpox: Chickenpox is a red rash which can appear on most areas of the body – after infection. It is uncommon for an adult or child to have chickenpox more than once.

Once infected by the chickenpox virus – the varicella-zoster virus – a nasty rash develops which may leave scabs.

As well as chickenpox, other health conditions/diseases which weaken the immune system (e.g., HIV/AIDS) can cause shingles to develop.

Symptoms
Symptoms of shingles include:

A tingling, burning sensation to the skin – usually down one side of the body (the chest, abdomen, trunk…)

A nasty, painful red rash in the form of a band (this develops after a few days and affects the aforementioned skin areas where the burning sensation has developed).

Nerve pain in the face

Arm and leg pains

Feverish symptoms

Headache

A general feeling of being unwell and having aches and pains

Swollen lymph nodes (these can feel tender as they become enlarged)

Causes
Shingles is caused by a virus called the varicella-zoster virus – the same virus that causes chickenpox. Once your childhood episode of chickenpox has passed, the varicella-zoster virus remains in your system, ‘sitting’ in the nerve cells of your spinal chord for the rest of your life until, for some reason, your immune system becomes weakened, and shingles develops.

You are at greater risk of having shingles if you are elderly, have had cancer treatment, drink alcohol excessively, smoke, or are under extreme stress for some reason (due to problems at home, or through being under constant pressure to achieve a sales target at work, for example).

Diagnosis
If you are suffering from the aforementioned symptoms, arrange an appointment with your GP immediately. They will take your medical history, ask you some questions about your symptoms, and then carry out a short physical examination (inspection of your rash).

It is highly unlikely that any kind of test will need to be made. However, if attaining a confirmed diagnosis proves difficult, then the shingles virus can be diagnosed through a blood test.

Once a confirmed diagnosis is made, an appropriate treatment will then be recommended to you.

Note: If your GP is concerned about the impact shingles is having upon your eyes, you may be referred to an ophthalmologist to ensure that your vision is not permanently impaired.

Effect on your life
After having shingles you may be left with slightly pockmarked skin in the affected area. This is where the red rash spots have developed into blisters and then flaked off over time.

If you have shingles you will probably have to take time off work until your symptoms have completely cleared up.

Some people with shingles suffer long-term eye problems as a result of developing the condition.

Treatment
Shingles is treated with antiviral medication.

To ease the itchiness of the shingles rash, it can be a good idea to try calamine lotion.

How Chemist Online can help
Through this website we have a range of treatments available to buy which can help ease headaches, fever and aches and pains – associated symptoms of shingles.

www.chemistonline.co.uk

Advice & Support
Shingles Support Society
Helpline: 0845 123 2305
Website: www.herpes.org.uk/shingles

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Visual Computing Market – Increasing Focus On Gaming Graphics Card Accelerate The Growth

Computers are being increasingly used to process digital images, video and visual reproduction. Visual computing means the ability to transform information into images and to gain information from images. The visual data can be block diagrams, simple icons 3-D scenes, photo, and video. These are used to describe either computer environment or application with huge or numerical data files like video sequences, 3-D scenes and images. Visual computing finds application in graphics, visualization, animation technology, video processing and image, multimedia communication and interaction among others.

Cyber world, visual computing is helping to transform the data to visual to facilitate better and effective more easy processes to gain from the data it contains .increasing demand for simulation products and virtual reality is expected to create a large market potential for visual computing market. Moreover, increasing focus on gaming graphics card to increase the accuracy level of games is also predicted to accelerate the demand of gaming industries. This in turn is acting as a driving factor in the growth of visual computing market in the coming years. The visual computing market is expected to grow at a steady rate during the forecast period from 2016 to 2024.

In order to provide detailed analysis of the market, the visual computing market is segmented on the basis of component, display, end use industry, and geography. On the basis of component, market is bifurcated into hardware and software. On the basis of display, market is further fragmented into monitors, whiteboards and others. Increasing demand of white boards as a result of increasing engagement in collaborative production, boost communication and greater range of data share and connectivity and mobile connectivity is acting as a driving factor in the growth of visual computing market. On the basis of end use industry, market can be classified into gaming, entertainment and media management information systems .On the other hand, information regarding current market synopsis and future trend in respect of all the above mentioned segments across various regions including Europe, North America, Asia Pacifica, Middle-East and Africa (MEA) and Latin America is also provided in this report.

One of the important factors restraining the visual market is high establishment and manufacturing cost followed by sensitivity to lighting conditions.

Geographically, the visual computing market is majorly driven by North America. In 2015, North America held the largest market share in terms of revenue. High internet penetration and cloud based services is mainly driving the North America visual computing market. In addition, increasing focus on research and development activities by key players operating in visual computing market is also acting as a driving factor in the growth of this market. In terms of revenue, the visual computing market of North America is followed by Europe. Asia Pacific is predicted to witness the most promising market in the coming years, owing to increasing internet penetration followed by growing demand for high definition gaming consoles. NVidia Corp. (U.S), one of the leading player in this market is heavily invested in visual computing and virtual reality. The market of visual computing is consolidated in nature with few companies holding majority of the market share. In 2015, NVidia corp. (USA) and Intel Corp (USA) held more than 50 percent market share of visual computing markets. Growing need for datacenter infrastructure, and HUD for automotive sector followed by increasing investment in virtual reality, visual computing for autonomous vehicles serves as opportunity for visual computing market.

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How Short Term Loans Play Important Role in the Life of Bad Credit People?

Financial uncertainties are the part of life. People cannot predict sudden expenses, which they are bound to fulfil. They have to look beyond their monthly salary to control their expenses otherwise they come hard on you. To prevent such tricky scenario, you have to find out a way from where you can avail funds without too much impact of your bad credit scores. long term loans for bad credit no guarantor are definitely the efficient source to come out from difficult financial situation. With the addition of no guarantor option, you will find easier to obtain benefits of these loans.

An alternative to a loan from bank

Every loan option has certain kinds of advantages, but not many of them are dedicated for the people with credit score. Banks, in particular, are reluctant to offer loans to these individuals. They do not want to compromise with their funds if the borrowers miss the repayments. They only agree to offer loans if the borrowers bring a guarantor to co-hold the responsibility of well-timed repayments. In contrast, the lenders of the modern-age are flexible in their approach and they not hesitate to fund the bad credit people during their tricky financial situation. They are also prepared to offer loans with no guarantor needed.

Unsecured and secured options

The loans for bad credit people are the small loans and it depends upon the borrowers whether they want to apply in a secured way or they think unsecured option would be better for them. In secured loan, they are bound to place collateral against the loan. Lenders have the right to keep the collateral, which may be home or car, in case borrowers miss the repayments. On the other hand, unsecured loans do not include the need of placing collateral, but they only meant for small amount with high interest rates. In these sorts of loans, borrowers do not have the risk of losing their home or vehicle. Depending upon the situation, they can decide which option would be better for them.

Apply in a Paperless Format

In the UK, lenders are providing opportunity to the borrowers to apply in a paperless method. They are accepting online applications of the people where the task of the borrowers is just to fill out an online form with mandatory details like residence, income proof and bank account. Lenders will decide whether they need papers or not to compliment the loan requests. However, the online mode of application assists borrowers to not to make mistakes while completing the application procedure, and they get guaranteed approval on their request.

Fulfil Your Short Term Financial Ends

Another major benefit that the short term loans bad credit people provide is the opportunity to fulfil short term financial needs, which were restricted due to financial emergency. Lenders are offering loans for the same purpose, and that’s why, they not hesitate to offer loans on competitive APRs. As a borrower, you will not find such a nice opportunity than these loans provide to you. It is your responsibility to utilise funds in an appropriate way, which can help you to avail funds and also to transform credit scores from bad to good.

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