The patient with shingles has been on an antiviral medication since the vesicles appeared. The goal of early treatment is to prevent which complication?
a. Postherpetic pain
b. Outbreak of additional vesicles
c. Lesions of the eye
d. Transmission to health care workers
A
Early treatment may avoid postherpetic pain syndrome, but it cannot prevent additional vesicles, eye lesions, or transmission to another person.
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