When patients have symptoms of herpes neuralgia, they can improve their condition through general treatment, medication and physical therapy.
1. General treatment: patients should pay attention to the care of the lesions, keep the lesions clean and dry, prohibit scratching and touching the lesions, and disinfect the clothes, bedding and towels that have touched the herpes fluid in time to avoid cross-infection.
2. Medication: patients can take antiviral drugs such as acyclovir and valacyclovir under the guidance of doctors; sedative and painkillers such as gabapentin, pregabalin and amitriptyline; and nutritive drugs such as methylcobalamin to relieve the symptoms of pain.
3. Physical therapy: For herpes neuralgia patients can also be through the transcutaneous electrical stimulation therapy, red and blue light therapy, microwave therapy and other ways of physical therapy, in order to relieve pain. The severe condition can also be treated with nerve block to relieve pain.
It is recommended that patients strictly follow the doctor’s instructions for medication, actively cooperate with the doctor’s treatment, in the life of the clothing should be cotton, soft, loose, in order to reduce the friction of the clothing on the skin lesions, life should be regular, pay attention to rest, avoid staying up all night and overwork, and so on.