What are The Symptoms of Shingles, and What Are The Ways to Prevent and Treat Shingles?
Shingles is a viral infection that causes a very painful skin rash that is accompanied by burning and pain.
This skin disease involves the nerve and skin, which causes skin and deep rashes. Accompanied by severe fever pain in the affected parts of the body.
What is Shingles:
This disease is caused by the chicken pox virus which is varicella zoster Which remains hidden between nerve cells and begins its activity as zoster disease in adults.
When shingles start, the skin on the affected areas becomes different from the rest of the body the rash appears in the from of small blisters that are very painful the inside of the rash is filled with liquid it takes 7to15 to days for these blisters to dry up and gradually improve.
What are The Signs and Symptoms of Shingles?
1- The affected area becomes sensitive to touch due to pain
2-sever itching
3-a rash develops in the affected area after a few days
4-pain and burning in the affected area
5-The rash turns into small blisters together
6- fever and headache
Pain in shingles is very common, even sometimes these pains are confused with cardiopulmonary disease because the pain starts before thrash on the body.
Shingles can be seen in a line or side by side in one part of the bod this rash mostly appears on the neck, eyes, abdomen back
Shingles is an infectious disease, but it is not transmitted through breathing touching the burst blisters cause the transmission of this disease the shingles virus is more contagious in people who have not had chicken pox.
To control and prevent the transmission of the disease, it is better to separate the personal belongings of the personal belongings of patient such as towels and underwear, and do not use the personal bioengineer of the patient.
People who have a week immune system or are suffering from acieration disease such as cancer and are undergoing radiation and chemotherapy should be more careful to avoid contracting
Those who have not had chickenpox may develop shingles during pregnancy, which causes birth defects in the body.
For prevention, it is better to inject the chicken pox vaccine be for pregnancy.
Ways To Prevent Shingles
1- vaccination of varicella zoster for all children in two stages.
2- people over the age of 50 should also receive the varicella zoster vaccine
3- Women who have not had chickenpox should receive the varicella zoster vaccine before becoming pregnant.
Ways to Treat Shingles:
The doctor prescribes medicines to reduce pain and speed up recovery medicines that are taken orally such as acyclovir tablets to speed up treatment and anti-inflammatory drugs such as acetaminophen cetirizine and diphenhydramine syrup be commends to reduce itching ointments such as calamin with lidocaine are prescribed. Take a shower with lukewarm water every day this will relieve itching use food that contains vitamins of group B, vitamin C, and vitamin.
Eat more lean meats, nuts, and vegetables fruits like cherries, watermelons are useful for you when you are sick eat a boiled egg every day for breakfast because it contains vitamin B.
