What is herpes zoster

Speaking of shingles, perhaps everyone has heard of it. This is a common viral skin disease in the human body. When this disease occurs, it has a great impact on the human body. Various pimples will appear on people's skin accompanied by redness, swelling, itching and other symptoms. Faced with this situation, people need to pay special attention and understand in detail what disease this is. Below we will introduce in detail what shingles is.

Herpes zoster is an acute infectious skin disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus. Children who are not immune to the virus develop chickenpox after being infected. Some patients become carriers of the virus after being infected without developing symptoms. When the body's immune function is low, the virus can grow and multiply again, becoming shingles. This disease is more common in adults, especially in spring and autumn. The incidence rate tends to increase with age. Therefore, the treatment of this disease should focus on antiviral, symptomatic and immune regulation. Antiviral treatment can include famciclovir, acyclovir, etc. For neuralgia, you can give paroxetine, carbamazepine and other drugs to relieve pain, and you can give drugs that can improve the body's immunity.

Shingles is a viral skin disease. In addition to causing blisters on the skin and mucous membranes, the pain is mainly caused by neuritis caused by the virus. Therefore, the treatment of shingles is mainly based on antiviral and nerve nutrition. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is related to damp-heat in the liver meridians and damp-heat in spleen deficiency, including the later stage of neuralgia, which is believed to be related to liver depression, qi stagnation, and blood stasis blocking the collaterals. Therefore, the early stage of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of shingles focuses on clearing heat and detoxifying, and promoting dampness. In the later stage of postherpetic neuralgia, the main treatment is to promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, regulate qi and relieve pain.

In most cases, shingles will cause blisters on the skin, which usually take about two weeks to recover. At the same time, the nerve pain usually lasts for a long time. It is difficult to determine how long it will take for the postherpetic neuralgia to heal. The blisters of shingles usually do not last more than two weeks and can be treated with topical acyclovir ointment, which usually heals on its own.