Shingles in children: symptoms, treatment, photos
What causes shingles? And what are the issues of interest to parents no less than doctors, as this type of lichen is fundamentally different from all the others.
Causes
The disease occurs due to filterable virus Strongiloplasma zonae. This virus is similar to chickenpox and is caused by the herpes, only the symptoms and symptoms are different.
The pathogenesis of the disease
Outline the factors that lead to viral infection and it can occur due to:
- cooling
- cold
- infectious diseases of any type.
- overheating,
- the UV irradiation.
When the herpes zoster virus affects most of the Central and peripheral nervous system (together with nerve cells).
Moreover, the structure of the distribution of damage has its own sequence, so first there is a loss of intervertebral ganglion, and after a virus strikes ganglionic regional or adjacent areas of the skin and mucous membranes. Naturally, parents are concerned about — mainly, leads to a strong immune system (recurrent disease sometimes observed upon infection with strains of the pathogen 3-4 types, it happens, if the patient has a malignant neoplasm, Hodgkin's disease or leukemia).
Note most importantly that the children shingles appears very rarely, and we can say that the disease is not typical for the child.
The simultaneous occurrence of herpes simplex and herpes zoster. For example, a case is described, when a child, who after sunburn developed herpes simplex, subsequently appear and shingles. Three days after this appeared the signs of herpes zoster, which took place only three weeks later. The fact of the coexistence of different viruses have been proved by experimental infection of rabbits. Therefore, it is important to know exactly uses: galantamine and proserin. These drugs help improve blood and limonaire, contribute to the restoration of the enzymatic function of nerve cells, accelerate the disappearance of pain. Possible use of adjuvants. it is important to recognize the disease correctly, because if it is, for example, ringworm in children, and treatment is assigned to another, that is, deprive deprive strife!
If there is secondary infection – assigned to different antibiotics. It is also possible appointment of physiotherapeutic procedures – UVI, Solux, ultrasound, indirect diathermy cervical and lumbar sympathetic ganglia, magnetic field. If the pain is severe – then helps conduct acupuncture, diadynamic Bernard currents, electrophoresis of novocaine, circularblockade novocaine. Treatment is similar to treatment in the herpes simplex.