For those who have shingles, you can wait until the disease clears up before having thoracoscopic surgery.
Shingles, caused by the body’s lowered immunity, results in a varicella-zoster virus infection. Patients will experience fever, herpes, headache and other related discomforts. Since the immune system is weak and the disease has not been cured at this time, thoracoscopic surgery may increase the risk of infection as well as other adverse symptoms if performed, and elective surgery is recommended if it is not an absolute emergency.
When suffering from shingles, you can cooperate with your specialist to take antiviral medication, such as acyclovir and ribavirin, which can effectively control the virus in the body and achieve therapeutic effect. If symptoms of pain and fever occur, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen and acetaminophen can be taken to reduce fever and pain.
If the symptoms are not relieved, or accompanied by other symptoms, you should go to the regular hospital in a timely manner, to clarify the cause of the targeted treatment, do not self-medication.