Severe pain in shingles: what to remove and what to do
Incredibly painful disease — shingles, is called herpes third type, and in medicine it is called herpes zoster. By the way, you know, as for the rash, they are not a universal symptom in herpes zoster, as already noted, the clinical manifestations are diagnosed with always pain, but not skin manifestations in the form of a bubble, a specific rash.
Severe pain herpes third type is caused by the fact that the virus affects the peripheral nerves, and this leads to the beginning of intercostal neuralgia and other types of neuralgia, which are accompanied by such severe pain.
Often in the background there are not only social problems, as the interaction at work or in the family, but also psychological problems that require professional assistance.
In General, all manifestations can be described as follows:
- In the skin clearly beginning to feel numbness, tingling, pain.
- There is a red, vesicular rash. The bubbles filled with liquid.
- Starts itching.
- Not rarely the patient may experience fever and sharp spikes in body temperature.
- Begins General malaise and lethargy.
What happens during pain
You need to understand that pain itself is only the beginning of problems, and if time does not diagnose herpes zoster, the patient may get many years of relapsing disease.
Note that the rash can generally be ignored, she either is, or is liquidated local drugs. Much more important to start the treatment of herpes zoster in the first 5-7 days after the onset of the first symptoms.
The time frame is important because if you miss this time, the virus begins to cause structural changes in the body nerve, causing its destructurization. And the nerve of the most difficult to restore the tissue of the body and its full restoration may take months and years to come.
Thus, if you do not start on time taking medications antiviral wing, the patient is cured of the virus, but is left with damaged nerves and constant severe pain. In some cases pain syndrome is so big that we have to take strong narcotic painkillers.
Treatment of herpes of the third type
Usually, shingles requires treatment aimed at reducing pain and intake of conventional antiviral drugs.
However, if lichaj started and begins severe form of the disease, can be written:
- Medication antiviral persuasion, the most common is the Acyclovir.
- Drugs analgesicaction.
- Antidepressants.
- Immunomodulatory drugs such as Likopid, Immunomax, kagocel, Panavir, Amiksin, Viferon, Reaferon.
- Vitamins.
For the local treatment of skin areas where there are rashes can be used antiseptic agent, and remedies that promote healing of the skin.
Prevention in shingles
In the first place must be strict adherence to the rules of personal hyenas. The affected skin should be clean and dry, it reduces the risk of secondary concomitant infection.
It is not recommended to use creams with antibiotics, it can lead to unwanted skin irritation.
An important part of prevention during the course of the disease are non-proliferation measures herpes. Patients are recommended to exclude possible visiting public places, and areas skin rashes to be kept under a sterile bandage.