My father 70 years old and he is suffering from shingles on his head for the last 2 weeks, the red dots are healing, but for the last 3 days he have the most painful thing he had experience in his life time, he scream and he cannot bear it, but it was only for a minute, this occurs every 5 to 6 hours. Please help us.

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