Herpes Zoster; is a painful and exanthema disease which can be observed in whole body and which can occur in persons having chicken pox. Following recovery from chicken pox disease during childhood period, such virus cannot be completely removed from body. It remains inactive in body’s nerve tissues for whole life. Immune system weakened due to increased age, diabetes mellitus, infections, cancer etc. causes reactivation of the virus. Stress, depression, sadness and extreme fatigue are among the causes triggering the disease. When the virus is activated due to such factors, it spreads and causes pain, itching, redness and skin eruptions. This disease is also called as skin eruption disease. When the disease is activated, it shows inflammation along one or several nerve lines and does not exceed midline …
What is Herpes Zoster and what are symptoms?
Severity and duration of the symptoms may vary according to the age and immune system condition of the patient. It has been determined that those who live until their 80s have Herpes Zoster at least once throughout their lives. It is not activated on the same area for the second time; but it is possible to have this disease on another part of the body.
Sense of pain, inflammation and itching complaints begin to appear before the appearance of skin eruptions. These symptoms are frequently confused with heart attack, kidney stones or appendicitis according to the place of pain. In such cases, skin eruptions mostly occur a couple of days after the sense of pain. The most annoying finding is pain. It is very important to start treatment at early stage for the control of pain and skin eruptions. Efficient treatment within 72 hours following the occurrence of eruptions significantly decreases the effects of eruptions, severity of the pain and long-term effects of Herpes Zoster. Skin eruptions will appear within a month. But, the pain may show increasing inflammation after the healing of eruptions and it is called herpetic neuralgia. It is very important to start treatment at an early stage to avoid such complication.
Mainstay of the treatment is antiviral medication. Treatment to be applied varies from person to person according to the severity of the pain. For the skin eruptions, it is necessary to use antibacterial creams which speed up the healing process and to apply wet medical dressing for intense dropsies and not to remove scabs. Treatment should be planned by a dermatologist.
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