Postherpetic neuralgia

  General treatment Patients with herpes zoster should seek early diagnosis and active treatment from a doctor when no site pain is present. During the treatment period, you should rest in bed, pay attention to nutrition, and wear clean and soft cotton underwear to reduce friction. If the pain affects sleep, take appropriate sedative painkillers. Spring is an epidemic season for many infectious diseases. Elderly and weak people should go to public places with unclean air as little as possible to avoid infection. You should keep exercising, keep your mood happy and have a regular life.  Nerve block therapy is one of the most effective therapies for herpes zoster, and the earlier it is implemented, the better the results. Since the 1980s, pain treatment has been widely popularized and rapidly developed in China, and one of the important treatment tools is nerve block. This therapy has the characteristics of exact analgesic effect, less side effects, can effectively block the vicious cycle of pain, and improve the blood circulation status of the pain site. The nerve block technique allows specific therapeutic drugs to be injected directly into the lesion or around the nerve root or stem of the lesion, so that the drugs needed by the body can reach the lesion directly, thus differing fundamentally from the “closure” of the painful area.  After herpes appears, it is important to keep the skin clean to avoid secondary infections. The first is to keep the area clean and dry, and the second is to avoid friction between the skin and clothes that can cause severe pain. 5% tincture of stanolol is also used externally for anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving effects.  The actual pain can be relieved by the use of the drug Chimantin. The effective control of pain in the acute phase of herpes is conducive to reducing the occurrence of post-acute pain.  2, antiviral drugs: oral acyclovir or platelet flush, intramuscular injection of adenosine monophosphate, etc.. Anti-viral drugs can effectively shorten the course of the disease.  3.B vitamin drugs: these drugs are neurotrophic drugs, which are beneficial to the repair of damaged nerves.  4, glucocorticoids: prednisone, etc., can reduce the pain in the acute phase of the disease, shorten the course of the disease and reduce the posterior pain.