What medicine does shingles apply quickly?

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1. Dangerous complications of shingles

Shingles or shingles is a disease caused by the Herpes virus. This is the virus that causes chickenpox. After getting chickenpox, although the chickenpox virus is cured, it still resides inside the patient's body in the sensory nerve ganglia in the back. Once the patient has a weakened immune system, malignancies, trauma or use of drugs that reduce resistance, the herpes zoster virus will reactivate and cause skin lesions. Common symptoms of shingles can include burning pain in the skin, blisters on the skin, blisters spreading over an area of ​​the skin. One of the dangerous complications of shingles is nerve pain even after the treatment is cured, in addition, the lesions on the skin after healing can leave scars on the body, causing loss of beauty. good for the patient.
In addition, for eye shingles, it is necessary to treat immediately when up to 50% of patients experience serious complications of vision, the most severe can lead to blindness.

2. What medicine does shingles apply quickly?

The most important rule in treating shingles is to treat it as soon as possible, the treatment goals include: pain relief, wound healing and prevention of complications. Commonly used topical shingles by doctors include:
2.1. Antiviral drugs Acyclovir, famciclovir and valacyclovir are 3 drugs currently used in the treatment of shingles. Antiviral drugs help reduce skin lesions, quickly heal scars, relieve pain, and help speed up the process of virus excretion.
Note when using antiviral drugs, these drugs should be used as soon as possible within 24 to 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Dosage of each type: Acyclovir 800mg each time, 4 hours apart, treatment lasts for 10 days; valacyclovir 1000mg each time, taken 8 hours apart, a course of treatment lasts 7 days; famciclovir once orally 500mg, taken 8 hours apart, treatment lasts 7 days.
Antiviral drugs are contraindicated in pregnant and lactating women. Those at high risk of complications such as the elderly, people with weak resistance need to use antiviral drugs as soon as possible. For young patients, the use of antiretroviral drugs is not required when the lesions in these subjects are usually quite small.
2.2. Anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs used in the treatment of shingles During and after the treatment, the problem that many patients often encounter is pain after shingles. The pain can be persistent and persist for a long period of time for months, even years. The pain after shingles increases with age, the older the age, the greater the rate of pain after shingles.
Although the use of antiviral drugs can reduce the incidence of pain, drugs do not completely prevent pain after shingles.
Commonly used pain relievers include paracetamol, neurontin. Corticosteroids can be used to coordinate the treatment of acute pain and promote rapid scar healing. However, both neurontin and corticosteroids contain many side effects, so when used, it is necessary to have a doctor's direction, especially not using each corticosteroid for treatment but must be combined with other antiviral drugs.
Besides, patients can use some types of antiseptic solutions, shingles such as milian solution, eosin red medicine... for local treatment to avoid bacterial superinfection. Never use antibiotic ointments.

3. What should be noted in the treatment of shingles?

Besides the use of drugs to treat shingles, the patient should pay attention to avoid using foods such as alcohol, tobacco, cereals, chocolate. oats and white noodles. Instead, it is necessary to add foods such as chicken, fish, milk and foods that contain high levels of vitamins B6, B12 such as bananas, liver, potatoes, oysters, ...
In addition, the patient You also need to find out what the cause of the disease is, then build yourself a way to prevent, pay attention to daily body hygiene, especially in areas of skin damaged by shingles. Avoid using such as soap, harsh chemicals. Wear loose, airy clothes to prevent rubbing on wounds and blisters to avoid superinfection and scarring on the wounds.
During the treatment of shingles, the patient needs to strictly follow the instructions of the specialist doctor for the most effective treatment. Arbitrary use of topical shingles medications without the guidance of a doctor can make the disease worse.

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