What happens if you drink alcohol when you have herpes zoster

When it comes to shingles, few people may know about it, but everyone should be familiar with herpes zoster and spider measles, which are both a type of herpes zoster. You need to pay more attention to your diet during the period of suffering from shingles. Do not eat spicy, greasy, or sour foods, as these will delay the recovery of the disease. People who like to drink should not drink alcohol, otherwise it will aggravate the pain. This article introduces the relevant taboos of shingles, let’s take a look.

Patients with herpes zoster are advised not to drink alcohol, because alcohol is quite irritating and drinking alcohol can aggravate the herpes zoster neuralgia.

Patients should no longer smoke, drink, eat beef, mutton, or fried foods, as spicy and warm foods can easily increase fire and generate heat after consumption. Phoenix Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that this disease is caused by the accumulation of dampness, heat and fire toxins in the skin, so patients with this disease should avoid eating the above-mentioned spicy and hot foods. There are also the following dietary taboos.

Avoid greasy food: Fatty foods such as pork elbows, pork belly, fatty meat, maltose, milk and sweet foods are mostly nourishing and greasy, which can easily cause the dampness, heat and toxicity in the body of patients with shingles to fail to reach the target, resulting in a lingering illness.

Avoid sour and astringent foods: Sour and astringent foods such as pomegranates, sour dates, peas, etc. can easily cause liver qi stagnation in patients with herpes zoster, which can turn into fire over a long period of time and be caused by toxic evil. Therefore, the treatment should focus on promoting qi, blood circulation and removing blood stasis. The sour and astringent foods mentioned above can easily cause poor blood circulation, retention of toxins and aggravate pain.

Patients with shingles should eat more high-fiber foods, and can also eat more watermelon and orange. Best of all, drink lemon water every day. Lemon juice can also be used to rub the rash areas.

Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history of treating shingles, with a variety of methods. Traditional Chinese medicine calls shingles "herpes zoster", "herpes zoster", "spider sores", etc. It is believed that it is caused by emotional discomfort and improper diet, which lead to spleen dysfunction, internal retention of dampness and turbidity, which turns into fire, and then to evil toxins. The treatment should be to clear away heat, purge toxins, dispel wind and cool blood, dredge meridians and relieve pain. Clinical dialectics often classify and treat it according to the types of heat, dampness, qi stagnation and blood stasis. Both oral and external use can achieve the effects of relieving pain and eliminating blisters to varying degrees.