Tinea versicolor: treatment, symptoms, manifestation

Shingles (herpes zoster) is a viral disease that affects the skin and nervous system. Provocateur herpes zoster, or as it is also called herpes zoster is the varicella zoster virus.

Most common in older people who previously had chickenpox.

Shingles: the causes of

Herpes of this type (herpes zoster) occurs as a secondary infection in those people who have previously had chickenpox. By its nature, is a reactivation of a herpesvirus after a long latent presence in the human body. Typically, it can take decades. Shingles usually is spinal nerve knots or ganglia of cranial nerves. Therefore, when inflammation of the herpes virus is activated herpes zoster, which affects the nerves and surrounding skin.

The virus manifests in a weakened immunity due to hypothermia, the fact that the transfer of infections and various stresses, and physical injuries. The risk of zoster increases with age.

Shingles most often appears in cancer patients and patients with blood disease.

Manifestation of herpes zoster

Appears more often in adults than in children. May occur initially atypical form: fever, headache, chills, burning, itching, tingling, malaise, dyspepsia.

Also shingles can be a tingling sensation on the skin, constant pins and needles in the nerves to the areas of future rashes, numbness. All of the above symptoms can appear individually and with different intensity. These symptoms last from 1 to 4 days.

When you initially manifestation of herpes zoster body temperature rises to 39 degrees, headache, chills, malaise. Parallel to all this, on top of nerve endings develop a rash similar to the rash. This rash is accompanied by pain and other uncomfortable feelings. Burning pain, worse at night.

Most often the rash appear along the nerve affected by the virus. Most often it is the area of the triple nerve or intercostal nerves, at least – the nerves of the limbs and genitals.

Pours organic pink spots with a diameter of 0.5 cm, which the next day are grouped into small blisters, called vesicles. Vesicles consist of clear serous content, the skin around the vesicles is red and swollen. Lymph nodes near the affected areas usually enlarged and inflamed.

Within a few days the areas affected by ringworm, pale, fluid filled vesicles, becomes cloudy. Onthe site of the vesicles formed a crust, which disappears by the 3rd week of the disease. Leaves behind some pigmentation. Over time, the body temperature to normal and the symptoms disappear.

Symptoms of herpes zoster

At the initial stage manifestations of herpes zoster, can appear the following symptoms:

• Headache.
• Low-grade fever.
• Itching.
• Pain when touching the affected area of the skin.
• Burning.
• Tingling.
• Chilling.

1-4 day on the affected skin appears reddish rash. Gradually, this rash begins to fill with pus, and after 10-13 days, the rash covered with a crust. After falling off the crust in its place often remain pigmented areas of the skin.
In some cases, rash may place itself within 14-20 days after falling off the crust, and can continue to progress.

If you have any of these symptoms on the face, especially near the eyes, you should immediately contact a doctor!

Complications of shingles

This type of lichen is quite dangerous and can lead to various complications, among which there are average weight and very heavy.
Complications of moderate severity can be attributed to various skin infections and post-herpetic neuralgia in which patients the pain persists even after the complete disappearance of the rash. This is due to the fact that the nerve endings that were affected by the disease, continue to mistakenly send signals to the brain about the pain. Such a diagnosis can be seen in 15% of patients with shingles over the age of 50 years. In such cases help of painkillers and antidepressants that need to be taken until the complete disappearance of the disease.
To very serious complications include vision loss (if shingles is located close to the eyes), paralysis.

Variety of shingles

• The treatment of herpes zoster

  Treatment begins immediately upon manifestation of the first symptoms. This method is effective response is needed for those people who have discovered

  For the treatment of virus used the following drugs:

  Externally: alpizarin, acyclovir , pervading, interferon alpha and gamma.

  Inside: acyclovir, tilorona, ribavirin, kagocel, inosine pranobex, interferon gamma and alpha, oxidehydrogenation.

  Intravenous: to acyclovir, extract of shoots of potatoes, interferon alpha and gamma, oxidehydrogenation.

  Also internally and externally using various preparations based on the leaves of sea buckthorn (giporamin pills geparinova ointment 0.5%).

  Shingles threat of this type?

  Unlike tinea versicolor, tinea disease is much more serious. It canto cause hearing impairment or paralysis of the face. Can lead to acute myelopathy. Therefore, any lingering shingles is a reason to be tested for HIV and various cancers.

  
  The majority of patients after recovery, can manifest neurological manifestations. Especially if lichen has been seen in the area of the frontal, najglasniji and nourishing nerves. In these cases, from time to time one may feel severe pain, redness, swelling and even skin eyelid. Virus in the eye can lead to damage of the cornea, which will adversely affect vision.