How to get relief from nerve pain caused by shingles

Neuralgia caused by herpes zoster can be improved by medication and physical therapy. 1. Medication: Early and sufficient antiviral treatment is helpful to reduce neuralgia, and antiviral drugs such as acyclovir, valaciclovir and famciclovir can be used. In addition, under the guidance of physicians, oral methylcobalamin tablets and other nerve-nourishing drugs can be taken, while oral painkillers such as ibuprofen tablets, gabapentin capsules and other drugs can be used to treat the disease. 2. Physical therapy: helium-neon laser, infrared local irradiation can be applied to relieve pain can play a certain help. Neuralgia caused by herpes zoster need to go to the hospital, by the physician according to the patient’s condition for treatment, medication should follow the doctor’s instructions, do not take medication without authorization.