Spring vigilant "tangled waist dragon" shingles

Healthday nets

    Into the spring, shingles patients gradually more up. Shingles is by varicella-zoster virus infection is a skin disease, commonly known as the "folk bind waist dragon". Its main characteristics are clustered close blisters, along the side of peripheral nerve form cluster ribbon distribution, often accompany obvious neuropathic pain. "Tangled waist dragon" good hair to adults, spring and autumn season more see.

    For herpes zoster neuralgia, often starting one characteristic appears in the hair, the night before the rash severe pain, and as the disease development, gradually appeared pain in the swell of red papules, just clear diagnosis. About 30% ~ 50% of old patients after shingles, less intractable neuralgia left is for months, and many are for years.

    TCM holds that, "dragon" is much by bind waist unsmooth stagnation, sentiment, YuHua fire for diseases, after feeling the toxin factor and send. In spring, the sexual behavior wood five, so YiWang Lord teh, patient suffered because of disease that sentiment stimulation. Treatment with detoxification spilled hot, activate collaterals, to reconcile blood, acetanilide detumescence, much as law in areas, like the acupuncture clip lesions, round hole method ridge stab method, local prick knock at spurs bloodletting cutem therapy, acupuncture with laser therapy, buried line therapy and semiconductor laser irradiation treatment etc.

      Currently clinical use more of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine treatment shingles and possibly neuralgia, can maximize reduce patients pain, shorten the duration of symptoms. In the early treatment at the same time, patients should also note light diet, avoid spicy stimulation, assure enough sleep time to burst, timely symptomatic treatment, avoid rash secondary infection. For recurrent episodes of herpes zoster elderly patients with malignant tumor, should be vigilant with immunodeficiency disorders of possibilities.