Herpes zoster can be cured without treatment in some patients, but if the patient’s own immunity is low, it is very difficult to be cured.
Herpes zoster is self-limiting, clinical treatment is still the principle, and to antiviral, nutritive nerve, pain relief and prevention of complications.
1. Systemic drug therapy: for early herpes zoster virus patients, antiviral drugs can be taken for treatment. For example, vasiclovir and famciclovir, because these drugs can inhibit viral replication and shorten the course of the disease.
2. Topical medication: Topical medication is mainly anti-viral, drying and anti-inflammatory. When herpes zoster is unbroken, it can be treated with glycerite lotion or acyclovir cream. When herpes zoster is broken and accompanied by bacterial infection, erythromycin ointment and mupirocin ointment can be taken for treatment.
3. Neurotrophic drugs
Can relieve neuralgia and nerve inflammation, such as vitamin B12, vitamin B1, methylcobalamin.
3. Pain medication: patients with shingles will be accompanied by nerve pain, you can choose to use gabapentin and pregabalin alone. If the pain is accompanied by acute stage, you can choose diclofenac sodium, amitriptyline for treatment.
4. Physical therapy: for more serious symptoms can take ultraviolet light, infrared light and other local irradiation, because it can promote the shingles dry, crust, so as to relieve the pain.
When the patient is clear that it is shingles, or should be under the guidance of the doctor, through the appropriate way of treatment, avoid unauthorized use of drugs.