Nervous Shingles: When To See A Doctor?

Neurological shingles is a viral skin infection. The virus that causes it is Varicella zoster virus. The disease is common in autumn - winter or winter - spring with all sexes, all ages.
Causes and manifestations of the disease
Although viruses are the cause of illness, they cannot always invade and cause disease. Viruses can only cause disease when we have weakened immunity, a sudden decrease in the number of immune cells in the skin

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Specific situations such as cold weather, changing seasons, ailing body, fatigue, weakness, insomnia, stress, inhibition, excessive worrying are thought to be the causes of the disease. Shingles are easy to identify, can self-examination and detection at home. The disease is manifested by a trio of symptoms: fever, burning pain and blisters
Fever in shingles can be a sudden, high-like fever in children, but it can also be gradual as in adults, then relatively high, but rarely up to 40 degrees.



Accompanied by a fever is a painful skin manifestation. Burning from the moment the body first has a fever, it is possible to have a fever first and then it hurts, but it is often burning and fever that often happens at the same time.
Skin irritation is very pronounced and very typical. The skin on the spot is infected by the virus and is painful and burning like a burn. After a short time of a few hours, the skin began to show redness. Now the skin is more painful. The pain is so painful that the patient does not dare to touch the skin, do not even dare to rub clothes on this skin area
About 1-2 days after the fever, at the red skin, blisters begin to appear.



Vesicles are characterized as localized, do not spread to other skin areas with thick covering and have clear water on the inside, about 3 - 5mm in size, rough, concentrated, clustered like a bunch grapes. Lesions appear as a long trail along the path of the nerve. Perhaps for this reason it is called shingles. The person feels tired partly because of fever, partly because of skin irritation, and partly because of body aches.
Once we see on the body we have a trio of signs: fever, skin irritation and blisters are almost certainly with shingles. If we pay attention that the affected area is localized only on one side and not on the other side, nor does it spread to the adjacent skin on the same side of the body, the more we confirm it is this disease.
How to deal with shingles nerve?
The treatment for shingles is also quite simple. Most cases can be treated at home.



Full therapy of shingles nerve include: analgesic, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory; skin soothing medication; Antibacterial drug and viral suppressant. Because our body has a fever and arthralgia, non-steroidal analgesics and antipyretics are very effective
The common drug is effervescent paracetamol combined with codeine which is quite good in this disease. Patients will feel less pain, reduce fever and joint pain no longer aches. If this does not help, the patient may need to consult a doctor who uses neuropathic medicine.
Next is a soothing skin medicine. It is not a complicated or expensive drug, but a medical lake. Simple to use: shake well before use, use a cotton swab soaked in the lake and apply gently to the surface of damaged skin.
Apply 2 times a day, apply a thin layer.



The lake has a very good cooling effect, can immediately reduce the burning sensation. The lake is only used for the first 2-3 days of illness. Then, must switch to using antiseptic solution. Common is methylene blue, or other solutions such as gentian violet, organic iodine. This solution is applied gently to the lesions, which have an anti-bacterial effect on the blisters. This way the skin will not be deeply damaged and there is no risk of scarring.
The last available medication is acyclovir. This is a viral suppressant.



Drugs used in this disease are very good. But only used when directed and directed by a doctor. In some cases, corticosteroids may have side effects.
When to see a doctor?
Usually shingles can be treated at home, only after 7-10 days the disease shows signs of retreating and progressing. We will not have to go to hospital for treatment. However, in some special cases, medical intervention may be required. Specifically, in one of the following cases:
- Having shingles nerve near eyes and ears, they must go to the doctor. If you do not allow shingles to run into your ears or medicines to get into your eyes or ears, it is very dangerous.




- Shingles nerve not only localized on one side but spread to the opposite. Especially shingles in the chest, back, neck, neck and neck may be spread to the other side.
- Necrotizing shingles nerve disease. Skin lesions appear ulcerative and necrotic
- Shingles nerve on a large area as the whole body from the abdomen to the back, shingles nerve infection, purulent whole lesions.
- Shingles occurs when patients are being treated for some other diseases such as AIDS, hepatitis, cancer, autoimmune disease ...
In all these cases, going to the clinic early will help us prevent shingles from developing, preventing complications from happening.



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