What counts as shingles?

Herpes zoster is a viral infectious disease that occurs after infection with the varicella zoster virus, which recurs in the body, causing clusters of herpes arranged in a band-like pattern along the innervated area.

The first is ** symptoms, it can be on any part of the body, but only on one side, the rash of shingles if it is on the left side, all on the left side, if it is on the right side, it is all on the right side. The manifestations of the rash are erythema, papules, and blisters, and his blisters are more characteristic, which are clusters of papules, for example, this lump has four or five blisters gathered together, and another lump has seven or eight clusters together. This is a manifestation of a rash.

The second manifestation is the manifestation of pain, the pain of shingles is more distinctive, because it is neuritis caused by the virus after infecting the nerves, and the pain that appears is neuralgia, and the characteristics of this neuralgia are often two kinds of pain, the first is pinprick pain, and some patients describe the pain like a chicken pecking. The other type of pain is a pain like an electrical discharge, which is often described as pain on one side and one side. And there is a gap between this pain, and it is possible and most of the pain can be worse at night.

In the past few days, when I took a bath, I found that I had several red rashes on my back, a large one, a little itchy, I wanted to scratch it with my hands, and I found more and more, and after going to the hospital for examination, the doctor said that it was shingles. Let's talk about what shingles is.

1.First: Herpes zoster is an acute inflammatory disease caused by varicella-zoster virus, which is mainly characterized by clustered blisters, clustered along one side of the peripheral nerve, accompanied by obvious neuralgia.

2.Second: the initial infection of herpes zoster is manifested as chickenpox, and then the virus can latent in the posterior root ganglia of the spinal cord for a long time, and weakened immune function can induce varicella-zoster virus to re-activate, grow and multiply, and spread along the peripheral nerves**, and herpes zoster occurs.

3.Third: Herpes zoster is an acute herpetic ** disease caused by varicella-zoster virus. It is characterized by clustered blisters along one side of the body, in a band-like distribution, accompanied by significant neuralgia and regional lymphadenopathy, and rarely healed**.

Precautions. Herpes zoster can generally heal in about a week, although the disease is not life-threatening, but the impact on people is still quite large, acyclovir ointment can be used for external antiviral **, herpes should be careful not to scratch, so as not to be infected.

1. The symptoms of shingles are similar to the papules and herpes the size of miliary grains to mung beans, which quickly turn into blisters, the blisters are very clear and transparent, and there are many redness around the pustules. After 10 days, the blisters will dry up and crust over. Heals with temporary reddish spots or pigmentation that leave no scarring.

The duration of the disease is about two to three weeks.

2. Herpes zoster will also appear flushing, and soon soybean-sized papules will appear, which will be distributed in clusters and will not fuse with each other, and then quickly become blisters, with red halos all around, and normal between the blister groups in each cluster. In addition, ** is arranged in a band-like pattern along a certain peripheral nerve, which usually occurs on one side of the body, and generally does not exceed the midline.

3. In addition, there will be mild fatigue, low-grade fever and other systemic symptoms before the onset of herpes zoster, and the affected area has neuralgia and burning sensation, and there is obvious pain after contact, which may last for one to three days, or there can be no prodromal symptoms to have a rash. Most patients develop the disease in areas innervated by the intercostal, cervical, trigeminal, and lumbosacral nerves.

4. At the same time, neuralgia is also one of the pathogenic characteristics of this disease, which can be accompanied by the appearance of skin lesions before or after the onset of the disease, and the elderly patients are violent, and the course of the disease is about three weeks, and the blisters dry up and the scabs fall off after leaving temporary pale erythema or pigmentation.