Herpes zoster in adults: treatment and photos
Herpes zoster a disease which at all on hearing, and it is the second name of herpes zoster. In its prevalence of the disease is ready to take a leading place in any hit parade of infectious lesions of the skin.
Called shingles a herpes virus better known as the third type.
That has always aroused interest among physicians is a consequence of the virus in different age of a person. The fact that the child has the virus manifests itself with pox and adult shingles, which is characterized by very strong pain.
In addition, chickenpox can occur in patients irrespective of age only once in your life, and a refresher they can not have to worry about relapse. With the shingles, everything is different and the disease can last for many years, then subsided, then again activities.
The treatment of herpes zoster is always difficult and long, this is another paradox of the virus. If chicken pox can be cured quite quickly and to recover it well at an early age, the picture of the disease of lichen is quite different.
The main symptoms
The first symptoms of herpes zoster are always small bubbles on the skin. Is a kind of rash, in this case, the locations may be tested strongly expressed pain.
However, often deal with clinical cases and is the most unpleasant option. Thus, when no external manifestations, but the patient experiences severe pain in different parts of the body. And it may be the face of the head, rump, back, ribs.
At the first pain the urge are few who will decide what is shingles, and the pain can be so strong that not thinking is about the nature of the pain.
After some time on the skin rashes appear, then disappear, but this does not affect the pain that remains. The pain may last for several months and brings a lot of inconvenience. It's not just physical stiffness and discomfort, but psychological problems, neurasthenia, irritability.
Problem constantly only getting worse, so much the effect of pain on the patient's life.
Causes severe pain
Cause of herpes zoster is zoster varicella. The virus is able to provoke intercostal neuralgia, and affects several adjacent peripheral nerve channels and endings. Once the lesion reaches any nerve endings it is possible to diagnose the beginningthe strongest pain response.
It is clear that the rashes on the skin in neuralgia generally fade into the background. If desired, they can be ignored, or easily handle the most common ointments.
It is important not to plant the virus, and instantly react to the pain symptoms. If you do not do this in the first week, not to take steps not to start the treatment, then the consequences will be dire, the farther in time, the harder it is to counter medication to the spread of the disease.
The reason for this haste is that the virus violates the integrity of the nerve, the destructurization. As a result, the recovery of the nerve takes place for months, and many experts note that the final recovery is impossible to achieve.
The problem is that to destroy the virus easily enough, but the problem lies with the nerve damage. In the end, it turns out that the virus is defeated and the body got rid of it, but the nerve damage remains, and with it the pain.
We can observe how patients are taking an increasingly strong painkillers, until the drugs are based on morphine to cope with the pain.
How to treat shingles?
The treatment can be carried out only after an accurate diagnosis of the virus. One of the most accurate methods of determining problems performs PCR analysis. The study involved content rash. Method FFW allows you to quickly determine if the analyses of viral DNA.
It is for DNA most accurately determine the type of virus, and this is important, as often you can confuse the types of the virus and then the treatment is not quite true. The fact that the human body can be like a virus of the first type and the second, which is characterized by a rash on the genitals.
Each type of virus has its own characteristics of treatment and use of drugs.
In addition, analysis was also carried out on the blood, where it is possible to identify the antibody. The advantage of PCR is in the timing definition of the disease and type of virus infection, because before the whole procedure could take from several weeks to a month, and for the development of neuralgia and nerve damage, is a very long time.
After accurate diagnosis, the doctor will prescribe the treatment that should be under the supervision and strictly according to the recommendations of a dermatologist.