Is herpes zoster still contagious

summary

That night, I indulged myself. After about a week, I began to grow some small acne, and it was painful and itchy. The examination said that I had herpes zoster, and then I treated it immediately. The situation was a little better. Let's share the following: is herpes zoster still infectious.

Is herpes zoster still contagious

First: mainly through the air droplets through the respiratory tract and direct contact with herpes blister plasma and infection, infectious is very strong, the patient is the only source of infection, so to do a good job in family isolation, to live in separate rooms, varicella virus after leaving the human body resistance is very weak, relatively easy to inactivate.

Second: children exposed to chickenpox herpes liquid can be disinfected by washing, drying, scalding, boiling and burning their clothes, bedding, towels, dressings, toys and tableware.

Third: herpes zoster disease is infectious, so if the family has herpes zoster must pay attention to isolation, avoid infection to others, we patients should also pay attention to good treatment, do not have too much psychological pressure, keep a good mood every day, active treatment of the disease, can get recovery.

matters needing attention

Although some patients with genital herpes in the latent period are infected with herpes virus, they may have no clinical manifestations. If the blood or blood products provided by healthy people or other patients with various diseases are infused, the recipients can be infected with genital herpes. This is the route of transmission of genital herpes.