What should I pay attention to when shingles scabs?

Shingles is relatively common and brings trouble to patients. There are many treatments for shingles, such as traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. Patients with shingles should pay attention to their daily diet and avoid eating spicy foods such as hot peppers to avoid aggravating the irritation. They should eat a light diet and keep their skin clean. What should be paid attention to when shingles scabs form? Let’s take a look below.

1. Notes

1. Provide easily digestible food and plenty of water.

2. To prevent secondary bacterial infection, do not rub the affected area to avoid blisters from rupturing. You can apply Chinese herbal medicine or Levnol wet compress externally to promote the drying and scabbing of blisters.

3. Elderly patients with severe symptoms, especially those with herpes zoster on the head and face, are best hospitalized to prevent complications.

4. Suffering from herpes zoster indicates that the patient's immunity is in a low state, and appropriate measures should be taken in time.

5. Some patients still have neuralgia after the skin lesions have completely disappeared. In this case, acupuncture, physical therapy, etc. can be used to relieve the pain.

6. Herpes zoster is a skin disease that affects both the nerves and the skin, and is caused by infection with the varicella-zoster virus.

2. Dietary taboos for herpes zoster

1. Avoid spicy and hot foods, such as alcohol, tobacco, ginger, chili, mutton, beef and fried foods, as they can easily generate heat after eating. 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.

2. Be careful when eating fatty and greasy foods. Fatty meat, maltose, milk and sweet foods are mostly greasy and fatty, which can cause the damp-heat toxins of the disease to accumulate inside the body and cause the condition to linger and not be cured.

3. Be cautious when eating sour and astringent foods. Sour and astringent foods include peas, water chestnuts, pomegranates, taro, spinach, etc. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this disease is mostly caused by emotional distress, liver qi stagnation, long-term stagnation turning into fire, and the invasion of toxic evil. Therefore, treatment should focus on promoting qi and blood circulation and removing blood stasis. The sour, astringent and bitter foods mentioned above can easily cause blood circulation obstruction, retention of toxins and aggravate pain. Patients with shingles must remember the foods mentioned above and must not eat them.

3. Suggestions

Keep your skin and clothes clean, and it is best to wear old cotton underwear. Do not prick the blisters that appear. If the blisters are too large, use a sterilized syringe to draw out the blister fluid, but do not remove the blister wall to prevent secondary infection. When a giant herpes breaks and there is a lot of water seeping out, it should be washed in time and the underwear should be changed. The diet should be light and eat easily digestible food. In case of primary neuralgia, timely treatment is required, preferably traditional Chinese medicine treatment.

4. The following are suggestions for preventing herpes zoster:

(1) Strengthen physical fitness and improve disease resistance. The elderly should insist on appropriate outdoor activities or participate in sports, but avoid overwork. When the body's resistance is reduced, the latent "varicella-zoster virus" is activated. For example, Uncle Wang was triggered by excessive fatigue during travel.

(2) Prevent upper respiratory tract infections. In the seasons of alternating cold and warm weather, you should add or remove clothes as appropriate to avoid upper respiratory tract infections caused by colds. Colds can lead to decreased resistance, which is also a common cause of shingles.