What is shingles? What is shingles?

Herpes zoster is a contagious disease caused by infection with the varicella-zoster virus, which is transmitted through physical contact or respiratory routes. When you are first infected with herpes zoster, the main symptom is chickenpox, and the virus is always hidden in the body, and when the body's immunity is reduced, the virus will be activated and resurrected, causing herpes zoster.

Herpes zoster is caused by reinfection with the "varicella-zoster virus" latent in the human ganglia** and nerve damage. Most patients have sideways, nerve-by-nerve papules, papules, and blisters at the base of erythema; In addition to the presence of skin lesions, patients often have varying degrees of pain, itching, and other symptoms of peripheral nerve damage. These need to be carried out under the guidance of a doctor in a timely manner, otherwise it is easy to cause the damage to subside and cause posterior neuralgia.

When we were young, everyone had chickenpox, so after chickenpox, the body will not have chickenpox again, and shingles is actually how the varicella-zoster virus is caused. When you have chickenpox when you are a child, there will be lifelong immunity in the body, and chickenpox will not come out again, but the virus is latent in the body, if the body's immunity is low, the occurrence of major diseases will directly induce the occurrence of these viruses.

Herpes zoster is a very common disease, mainly in spring and autumn, at the onset of the disease, ** will become extremely sensitive, can also cause neuralgia, but also cause mild fever, but also cause general discomfort symptoms caused by loss of appetite, some patients symptoms are not very obvious, patients will first appear some flushing spots, and then will form mung bean-sized herpes.

The appearance of herpes zoster is mainly because the latent virus is not cleared, when the immunity of the self is reduced, some major diseases appear, and the body is relatively weak, these latent viruses will multiply in large quantities, which will directly cause the appearance of shingles, and the blisters of shingles will become dry and scabbed after more than ten days, and some light red spots will be left after scabbing.

This kind of herpes is not contagious, the blisters of shingles will contain a large number of viruses, which are contagious, if children who do not have immunity are infected with these viruses, chickenpox will appear, but this probability is relatively small, the average adult is immune, even if contact will not cause infection, so shingles will not be transmitted in the population.

Herpes zoster is caused by varicella-zoster virus infection, and the lesions are characterized by clusters of herpes and neuralgia along peripheral nerves, and its transmission route is still "**-air-air-air". Because the virus is neurophilic, it can remain dormant in the neurons of the posterior root ganglia of spinal nerves for a long time after infection.

Herpes zoster is a relatively common disease, which is a disease induced by the virus, generally manifested as acute symptoms, most patients will be accompanied by fever symptoms, mostly in children with low immunity, so children usually pay attention to the prevention of these diseases. So, what is shingles? What are the shingles** prescriptions?

1. Herpes zoster

Herpes zoster is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which is normally latent in the posterior root neurons of the spinal cord.

When the body's resistance is low or tired, infected, or suffering from tumors, the poison can grow and multiply again, and move along the nerve fibers to **, so that the invaded nerves and ** produce intense inflammation. The rash is generally unilateral and segmentally distributed in dots, consisting of clusters of herpes and accompanied by pain; The older you get, the worse your neuralgia becomes.

**Mainly anti-inflammatory and antiviral. If you are serious**, you can**.

2. **Prescription

1.Pay attention to rest, take medicine carefully, and rub medicine.

2.If you find that you have poor eye, face or limb movement, you should see a doctor again in time. If you have gastrointestinal or chest discomfort, you should also see a doctor promptly.

3.You should stay in bed within 2 hours after taking painkillers to avoid accidents due to dizziness.

4.Children who have not had chickenpox may be infected, so it is important to isolate the patient so as not to affect the slag children.

3. Early symptoms

1. Neuralgia.

Nerve pain is one of the initial symptoms of herpes zoster, often paroxysmal, pins and needles pain, the degree of pain will worsen with age, the pain of changing herpes zoster in elderly patients is the most intense, even unbearable.

2. Erythema. In the early stage of herpes zoster, there will be many irregular or oval erythema, and the rash is characterized by groups of shiny blisters the size of mung beans to rice grains, red at the base, unilaterally distributed along the peripheral nerves, arranged in a band, and the blisters break in about 1-2 weeks.

3. Low-grade fever and fatigue.

Due to the invasion of the herpes zoster virus into the body, when the body's immunity is low, the virus multiplies rapidly, and the patient will have the initial symptoms of low-grade fever, fatigue and fatigue due to the influence of virus reproduction.

4. Eye diseases. In the early stage of herpes zoster, diseases such as keratitis and conjunctivitis may occur due to the invasion of the trigeminal nerve by the herpes virus, and patients are often misdiagnosed as eye diseases at this time.

Herpes zoster may be preceded by prodromal symptoms such as fatigue, fever, and loss of appetite. The patient's ** may have burning or burning pain, and there is obvious pain sensitivity to the touch, and the lesions of herpes zoster are mainly in the areas innervated by the intercostal nerves, cranial nerves, and lumbosacral nerves. Erythema usually appears first, and soon there are papules the size of miliary to mung bean grains, the distribution of papules in clusters without fusion, and then quickly become blisters, the blister walls are tense and shiny, the blister fluid is clear, and the periphery is surrounded by redness, and the clusters between the clusters of blisters are usually normal.

Lesions in shingles are characterized by bands along a nerve, usually on one side of the body, usually no longer than the midline. Neuralgia is one of the most striking features of shingles and can appear before or with a rash. Often the elderly patients have more severe symptoms of herpes zoster, and the pain is more obvious, the course of the disease is generally 2-3 weeks for young people, 3-4 weeks for the elderly, and the blisters gradually dry up, scab over, and fall off, leaving temporary pale erythema or pigmentation.

The skin lesions of herpes zoster can also be varied, related to the differences in the patient's resistance, ranging from the abrupt type, which only appears red packets, papules, and blisters that resolve, to bullae, hemorrhagic types, gangrene types, and generalized types. There are also special manifestations of shingles, such as herpes zoster of the eye, shingles of the ear, disseminated shingles, and so on.

Herpes zoster, commonly known as snake sores and snake wound around the waist, is caused by the herpes zoster virus, which is characterized by redness and swelling of blisters, spreading to one side, accompanied by obvious nerve pain, and it is easy to leave sequelae and long-term pain if it is not dealt with well. Be careful not to eat spicy, moist and hot food, fatty food, or sour food. Patients suffering from herpes zoster and its sequelae must be targeted to treat the best of the best, so as not to get worse and worse.