What are the symptoms of herpes?

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Many people may not know that varicella zoster virus can actually cause herpes zoster, which is an acute inflammatory skin disease. In traditional Chinese medicine, herpes zoster is also known as waist wrapped fire dragon or spider sore. It has very obvious characteristics after the onset. For example, after some patients get sick, there will be a large number of aggregated blisters on the skin, and the blisters show an aggregated zonal distribution. After the disease, patients will also have obvious symptoms of neuralgia. If it is the first time herpes zoster patients may only show chickenpox and no other symptoms.

What are the symptoms of herpes?

Herpes zoster can be generalized, although it is relatively rare, but if the harm of the disease is huge, it can make the patient die when it is serious. Generally, it only takes a few days or so to quickly attack in all parts of the body, and also invade the internal organs.

Patients with herpes zoster, the whole body may have a rash, but some patients only in a small range of local papules or skin erythema, some people may not have typical blisters or blisters can subside without any physical discomfort, but if it is a large herpes zoster, blisters may last for a long time.

Herpes zoster is generally a disease with a latent period, when patients infected with herpes zoster virus, the patient will not immediately on the onset, if the patient wrote carrying the virus, and the body's immune function is obviously bad, which may cause the onset of the disease, after the onset of chickenpox can quickly appear on the skin, causing the occurrence of pruritus.

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Herpes if it is an acute attack is very dangerous, and the onset of early can show very serious symptoms, such as patients will have severe pain, can affect the cornea, iris and even the whole eyeball, if cause upward infection can cause meningitis and death.