Herpes zoster need to go to the hospital in time, and under the guidance of the doctor to choose a reasonable program of treatment, treatment methods mainly include drug therapy, physical therapy, surgical treatment and daily care.
1. Medication: Usually anti-viral treatment, you can take acyclovir tablets, famciclovir tablets, etc., and you can also use acyclovir cream, penciclovir cream to assist in the treatment.
2. Physical therapy: If the pain of herpes zoster is obvious, physical therapy can be used, such as microwave and ultrashort wave therapy.
3. Surgery: For patients with postherpetic neuralgia whose herpes pain is severe and persistent, minimally invasive nerve block surgery can be taken. But there may be the side effect of local skin numbness.
4. Daily care: patients with herpes zoster should usually pay attention to early to bed and early to rise, appropriate exercise, improve the body’s immune function.
The above drugs and operations need to go to the hospital dermatology department, under the guidance of the doctor to use drugs.