Don’t forget to screen for tumors if you have shingles You may be wondering, why do you need tumor markers and abdominal ultrasound to see shingles? Is there a connection between shingles and tumors? Most people think that herpes zoster is only a skin condition, but it is actually related to tumors. The herpes zoster virus does not exist and grow overnight. We all know that children are prone to chicken pox, although it is called “out” chicken pox, but at the onset of the chicken pox does not always come out, some children will send out the chicken pox, but some children have the disease without symptoms, and even in adulthood do not know that they had chicken pox. But in either case, the shingles virus actually starts to lurk in the ganglia of our body as early as that time. In other words, when we contracted this virus as a child, we called it chicken pox, and when we got it again as an adult, it was called shingles. The name is different at different times, but the root is the same. The varicella virus likes to hide in the trigeminal ganglion (also called the semilunar ganglion), and facial shingles is caused by the virus invading this ganglion. According to a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, American experts, through years of research and study, performed autopsies on recently deceased remains, extracted and cultured the virus in the semilunar ganglion, and found that the presence of the herpes zoster virus in the semilunar ganglion was surprisingly high at 87%. It also likes to hide in the dorsal root ganglion, and herpes zoster of the chest is caused by the violation of the dorsal root ganglion. In the dorsal root ganglia, the presence of the herpes zoster virus is 57%. Some people just “live” with the virus all their lives and don’t get excited about it. In a few cases, the virus has invaded the optic nerve and the optic nerve has been affected so that the person cannot see. Other people have the virus invade the nerve of the eye, causing paralysis of the eye muscle and double vision. So how did we accidentally recruit the chicken pox virus we contracted as children as adults? Everything that causes a low immune system causes the virus in the ganglion to multiply and attack the body rapidly, which in turn causes shingles. For example, staying up late, mental shock, cold, tumor, cancer radiotherapy, etc. When the resistance is low, the viruses in the ganglia multiply and will attack the body. One is to attack the nerves. The reason why we feel that shingles hurts and hurts, like fire, like sandpaper polishing, like knife cutting, all kinds of painful sensations intertwined, is because the virus attacks the nerves. The second is the attack on the skin. The attack of the virus makes the herpes appear on the skin of the face, neck and waist. The first and foremost of these causes is the exclusion of the most critical hidden danger, the tumor. Through years of clinical investigation, more women have ovarian cancer and more men have prostate cancer and lung cancer among patients with shingles. Therefore, patients who come to the pain clinic are routinely screened with tumor markers and abdominal ultrasound. Herpes zoster treatment of skin lesions is not the first priority, and repair of nerve damage should be emphasized over the age of 50 Usually people think that the most damaging thing about herpes zoster is the rash and consider the rash to be the disease. Try to get rid of the herpes on your body by all means. In fact, the rash of shingles can heal itself even without treatment. The most important point in the treatment of shingles is to treat the nerve damage, this is because if you do not actively repair the damaged nerves after having shingles, the incidence of post-herpetic pain will increase with age. 60% of people at the age of 70 will have post-herpetic neuralgia and 70% of people at the age of 80 will have post-herpetic pain. This is because it is easy for young people to repair the virus after it attacks the body, while older people do not regenerate easily after cell damage because their metabolism is not as fast. The cure for post-herpetic pain is rare and a worldwide problem. Painkillers do not work at all. Patients often say that the pain is like the devil, and some patients are so suicidal that they have been in pain for 26 years. There are even some “immortals” who claim to have high priced pain relief prescriptions, and there are really patients who have sold their houses and cars for this prescription to cure the disease. In the past, we understood that the nerves of people are like wires, and we cut the painful nerves through radiofrequency or alcohol damage to the brain, so that we can’t feel the back pain afterwards. But what is the problem after the cut? Some patients will still feel the painful numbness in the lower back, and it will be very troublesome to treat it again at this time. In fact, this method is similar to “fighting poison with poison”, which may cause nerve destruction. Therefore, the way to deal with the posterior pain is to do nutritional repair of the damaged nerves, through a series of means to regenerate the nerves, rather than blocking them. Although this method cannot kill the virus completely, it can inhibit the reproduction of the virus by improving the patient’s overall resistance, and the posterior pain can be cured in six to eight weeks.