like an mri scan, and the eeg to see if the electrical activity has been affected in the brain or something like a virus to cause it, and if people recover, it is the headache and the fever that goes away, but the memory loss, they can be lingering symptoms for a long time. and so sometimes symptoms can linger for a long time after recovery and in other circumstances. the encephalitis is one part of the shingles or what the shingles ended up causing, and it ended up to cause something called ramsay-hunt, and so what is that? well, shingles is not rare, but the fact that it turns into ramsay-hunt, and that is rare. in terms of what shingles will go to the body, you get pain and a rash. think of the same thing
that is inflammation of the layers, the outside layers of the brain. but with encephalitis you re actually getting swelling in several different areas of the brain. now, it can be challenging to diagnose. usually you have some suspicion. as manu mentioned, she had diagnosed shingles. shingles can sometimes lead to encep encephalitis, inflammation of the brain. you have several tests you d start to do to figure that out. imaging tests, for example. eeg, electric o encephalogramm wok a test. and even a puncture, you look at the fluid that bathes the spinal cord and brain, is the virus in there, are there indications there s swelling and inflammation around the brain. that s how you make the diagnosis. sometimes it s hard. people have fever. they may have headache. sometimes those symptoms resolve but people may be left with memory sort of difficulties. it can be challenging, jake. and what about ramsay hunt? what is that? so when someone has shingles, and a lot of people know what sh