What to do when a shingles blister breaks

Herpes zoster blisters broken need to avoid water, timely disinfection and under the guidance of the doctor’s topical use of relevant drugs treatment. 1. Avoid water: After the blisters of herpes zoster rupture, it is necessary to pay attention to keep the wound dry, do not get wet locally to avoid causing bacterial infection and further aggravate the condition. If you need to take a shower, you can use a waterproof band-aid to wrap the waterproof. 2. timely disinfection: herpes zoster blisters rupture need to local disinfection, you can use povidone-iodine to disinfect, and then use sterile dry gauze for bandaging treatment. 3. medication: if you find that the blisters ruptured wound local redness and swelling or pus oozing, this time suggests that the local infection, you need to go to the hospital in a timely manner, according to the doctor’s advice to use the rehabilitation of the new liquid wet compresses or topical antibiotic ointment, such as erythromycin ointment coated. If the herpes zoster blisters are not ruptured, try to keep the blisters intact, do not pick the blisters to avoid infection.