During the Spring Festival, people are more tired due to the busy New Year holidays, more family and friends gatherings, irregular work and rest schedules, plus staying up late drinking, making the body’s immunity lowered, greatly increasing the chances of incidence, especially the elderly, pregnant women and weak people, their own body immune function and resistance to decline, once overworked, mental tension, “latent The “latent” herpes zoster virus in the body will take advantage of the opportunity to run out. The first thing you need to do is to take your own medication or topical medication, but the pain will get worse and some red blisters will grow on your chest. The reason for this is that recently, a high incidence of the disease has been observed. Because of the recent high incidence of the disease, here’s a quick overview of what shingles is. The virus that causes shingles is the same as the virus that causes chickenpox, and is called “varicella-zoster virus”. Many patients have had chickenpox as a child, and because the body’s resistance is unable to remove the virus completely, some of the virus remains “latent” in the body even after the chickenpox has healed. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who have been in the business for a long time. It’s not just for the elderly. Many people have the impression that herpes zoster is a “proprietary disease” of the elderly, why is that? In fact, people of all ages can get shingles, but older people over the age of 50 are more susceptible to viral infections that can trigger shingles. This is because the elderly themselves have weakened immune function and resistance, once the attack is more serious, and usually accompanied by neuralgia. ”If an elderly person is found to have symptoms of shingles, it is important to treat them as soon as possible and never delay.” Because neuralgia is one of the signs of shingles and can occur before or at the same time as herpes, the probability of neuralgia occurring in the elderly because of shingles is very high, with neuralgia sequelae appearing in 50 percent of patients over the age of 50. If left untreated, even if the herpes disappears, the neuralgia can remain for months or even years, seriously affecting the quality of life. Don’t work too hard during the holidays During the Chinese New Year there are more gatherings of friends and family, irregular work and rest schedules, plus staying up late drinking, which can easily lower the body’s immunity due to fatigue and greatly increase the chances of developing the disease. In addition, the change of winter and spring this time, the temperature change is relatively large, is also a variety of diseases to take advantage of the high incidence of time, the elderly and weak people should pay attention to keep warm. Maintain a regular routine and do not overexert yourself. Here to remind everyone: in terms of diet, the public should pay attention to the diet is not too greasy, should be light, do not eat too much seafood, spicy, fried food and large fish and meat and other things that are easy on the fire; maintain a regular schedule of work and rest, do not overwork. In addition, also pay attention not to let children who have not had chickenpox close to shingles patients, shingles is caused by varicella zoster virus, contagious, if children have not had chickenpox or vaccination, it is possible to infect. So, who is susceptible to shingles 1, people who work under stress, have high mental stress for a long time, are often depressed, stay up late for a long time should also be alert to shingles, and are also a high incidence of shingles. 2, tumor patients or patients suffering from autoimmune diseases such as lupus erythematosus, in addition, a large number of people taking hormonal immune preparations of drugs, are a high incidence of herpes zoster. The elderly are at high risk for herpes zoster because they have a deficiency of blood and qi and poor resistance and are susceptible to viral infections that can trigger herpes zoster. The older you are, the more likely you are to develop herpes zoster, and the poorer your immune system is, the slower your metabolism is, and the more likely you are to suffer the sequelae of neuralgia after herpes zoster. And with the low age of shingles, it is also common for young and middle-aged people to suffer from shingles. 4, pregnant women, due to the increased burden on the heart and lungs, pregnant women are also a high incidence of shingles.