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Herpes zoster is a viral infection of the skin, caused by chickenpox-herpes zoster virus infection, latent in the body to reoccur, resulting in clusters of herpes arranged in bands along the innervated areas of the skin, accompanied by neuralgia. Elderly people and people with chronic wasting disease are susceptible to herpes zoster, and once infected the condition is more serious. Folklore calls this disease "string waist dragon" and the literature calls it "waist-entangling fire dan", because herpes zoster invading the chest and waist area accounts for more than 60% of the incidence of this disease. In fact, this disease can also violate the head, face, ears and upper and lower limbs and other parts. Because this virus has the characteristics of pro-nerve, the onset of the disease is always along the direction of the nerve, in the form of strips, so it is called "herpes zoster". This virus usually can not develop, but due to the elderly and people with chronic illnesses, the body's resistance to decline, and then encountered physical exertion, colds and other triggers, it is prone to this disease. Pathogenesis: Virus infection with no immunity or low immunity of the population (mostly children) can occur primary infection, that is, chickenpox. The virus spreads to the sensory nerve endings of the skin through the bloodstream, to the posterior roots of spinal nerves or trigeminal nerves through the nerve pathway, and then spreads to the neurons of the sensory ganglia of the cranial nerves, and when the immunity of the body decreases (e.g., trauma, colds, cancers, diseases of the immune system, etc.), the latent virus multiplies in large quantities, which leads to ganglionic inflammation and necrosis, and causes the patient's pain, and at the same time the virus passes along the nerve pathway and down to the region innervated by that nerve. At the same time, the virus travels down the nerve pathway to the area innervated by that nerve causing segmental herpes. The virus can also infect motor neurons, causing muscle weakness and motor paralysis, but this is rare. Although herpes zoster is a virus, it is not a contagious disease. Theoretically, there is a virus in the blister fluid of a patient with herpes zoster, and if a child who is not immune to the virus comes into contact with the blister fluid, he or she can become infected with chickenpox, but the chances of this happening are relatively small. Adults, on the other hand, are mostly immune and will not develop chickenpox even if they come into contact with it. Therefore, herpes zoster does not cause epidemics in the population. People with shingles also do not need special isolation, but close contact with children should be avoided. At the beginning of the attack, the main signs are generalized fatigue and weakness bones appear pain, loss of appetite, mild fever, and soon the site of the attack feels burning and throbbing pain. If it occurs in the chest or waist, it is often misdiagnosed as heart disease or acute abdomen, etc. With herpes zoster, 1 to 3 days later, the onset of the site of the skin that is the appearance of green pea-sized, high-tension pimples, blisters, distributed along the nerves, clusters arranged in stripes. If it occurs in the chest, waist, mostly from the side of the spine diagonally forward and downward, rarely symmetrical onset. (Folklore: if a circle of herpes around the waist is life-threatening, is unreliable, but if the virus directly erodes the internal organs and brain nerves will be at risk). Sufferers from this disease, mild each cluster can be spaced out with normal skin, the serious condition can be fused with a large banded distribution, a few days from the clarified transparent blisters into turbid pustules, some can break to form erosion. Elderly people are mostly manifested as large blisters, blood blisters, and even necrosis. In mild cases, the blisters can dry up and crust naturally in about three weeks, leaving no scar after shedding; in severe cases, the course of the disease can be prolonged to more than one month. Elderly patients often experience severe pain that interferes with sleep, and if treatment is not timely, the pain remains after the lesions subside and does not fully subside for months. If herpes zoster appears on the head and face, be alert to the headache and facial paralysis that occurs when the nerves of the head and face are violated. If the cornea of the eye is violated, it may even lead to blindness. The condition will be more serious in older, weaker people and those with chronic diseases such as tumors. It is worth noting that the clinic is also common to an incomplete type of herpes zoster, the patient in addition to self-conscious onset of severe pain in the area, the blisters do not appear or appear very little, it is very easy to be misdiagnosed, should be highly valued, so as not to avoid the delay in the treatment, and found that the serious consequences. Herpes zoster is mainly the incidence of immunity lower population, 15-25 years of age within the patient has a strong ability to self-healing, more than 35 years of age should be actively treated, especially the elderly must pay attention to, do not paralyze. Herpes zoster is caused by varicella zoster virus, which is generally latent in the neurons of the posterior root of the spinal cord. But the body resistance is low or tired, infection, cold and fever, anger and fire, the virus can grow and multiply again, and along the nerve fiber to the skin, so that the violated nerves and skin produce intense inflammation. The rash is usually characterized by unilateral and ganglionic distribution, with clusters of herpes, and is accompanied by pain; the older the patient, the more severe the neuralgia. This disease is known as herpes zoster in modern medicine, folk known as snake gall sores, wrapped waist dragon, wrapped waist fire Dan and other said. Herpes zoster patients as long as the active treatment, the rapid body of the virus and transmission to the terminal nerve of the virus outside the body will not have sequelae, on the contrary, may form sequelae of neuralgia. Post-herpetic neuralgia is defined as persistent pain for more than one month after clinical cure. Postherpetic neuralgia is one of the persistent pain disorders that bother middle-aged and elderly patients. Its pain duration is as short as 1 or 2 years, and the longest is even more than 10 years, and the general history of the disease is as long as 3 or 5 years. Herpes zoster and its sequelae belong to the more intense intractable pain, clinical manifestations to the pain sensation hypersensitivity as a characteristic, gently touch can produce intense intolerable pain, the patient's pain is often to spontaneous lightning-like or tearing-like pain, the onset of the attack often make the patient sleep and eat uneasily, the majority of patients are often accompanied by a more obvious persistent burning pain. Postherpetic neuralgia is retained in the body of the virus erosion damage blocked peripheral nerves due to, so the treatment should be detoxification out, dredge the virus blocked nerves as the main, the postherpetic neuralgia should not be used in Western medicine nerve destructive treatment, such as nerve closure, cut off, block, freezing, laser irradiation, the use of analgesic pumps, injection of hormones, anesthesia, interferon, nutritive nerve drugs, etc., this will only give the patient a lot of trouble, and will also cause a lot of pain. This will only cause a new disease of medical origin to the patient, bringing permanent injurious complications to the patient - numbness, muscle atrophy, etc. (even this may not be able to lift the patient's pain), if the nerve is completely destroyed can no longer be cured, treatment recommendations: can be used in traditional Chinese medicine, Baohe Tang Xu Kee ointment (herpes zoster and sequelae) external application plus detoxification. Treatment suggestions: Chinese medicine can be used, Baohetang Xu Ji paste (shingles and after-effects of special cream) external plus detoxification laxative fire capsule internal, detoxification laxative fire dredging repair by the virus blocked nerves can be recovered. Role and principle: through the external application of drugs, improve local blood circulation, promote the blockage of the nerve unimpeded, the local administration of drugs with internal drug to drive away the poison and fire, internal and external posting, inside and outside of the same treatment, so that qi and blood flow, unimpeded veins and channels, repair and dredging of damaged nerves (pain is not pass through, pass through is not pain), you can alleviate and relieve the pain and cure. Uncertainty can be contacted for advice, wishing a speedy recovery!