How do I treat facial shingles?

Shingles is a disease caused by Herpes Zoster, the same virus that causes falsepox. Sometime after a person becomes small, the virus can lie sleeping in the nerves and re -appear a few years later as a painful, blistering rash called Shingles. When the virus infects the facial nerve and causes symptoms on the face, it is called the shingles of the face or the Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Although there is no medicine, there are many effective treatment procedures for shortening the duration of facial shingles and alleviating symptoms. Blisters develop shortly later in a lane or zone on one side of the face. Symptoms may be present in facial shingles that are not present in shingle infections in other parts of the body. These symptoms may include impaired speech, ear pain, neck or head, changed taste, sensitivity to sound, dizziness, dry mouth and face weakness or paralysis. Usually it is important to see your doctor as soon as they are suspected of facial shingles to minimizethe duration of the disease and treated symptoms.

Once the face shingle is diagnosed, the doctor may prescribe medication. Since patients with face shingles are at a higher risk in some complications than patients with shingles in other parts of the body, the doctor may prescribe antiviral drugs. Pain can be treated with painkillers, skin creams, antidepressants and antihistamines. Doctors can treat the weakness of the face with physical therapy. If the lids have difficulty closing, the doctor may insert botulinum toxin type A (Botox®) into the upper eyelid.

At home, patients can release discomfort by applying cold compression to blisters and keep them covered with gauze. Oat oat bath can relieve pain and itching. Patients should usually relax until the fever disappears and does not apply creams on the skin of lidocaine or calamin cream, as needed.

shingles most often affect the hundredPersons, stress people and people with weakened immune system. Anyone suffering from shingles should generally avoid anyone whose immune system can be endangered. This includes anyone who has never had flank smallpox, older, pregnant women and newborns. The virus that causes shingles does not spread shingles, but can cause chickenpox in someone who has never had falsepox or had a vaccine.

Facial shingle patients are at greater risk of some shingles complications. In some patients, shingles virus may infect the nerve in the eye or ophthalmic nerve, causing painful swelling and temporary loss of vision. Although shingles usually recover themselves within 3 to 5 weeks, they may sometimes cause complications such as border neuralgia, to cause pain and headaches for several months or years.