Treatment of herpes zoster facial paralysis

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Many elderly people with herpes zoster think that their age is older, there is no need for treatment. This view is wrong. No matter how old people are, we should actively face and treat diseases. One is to avoid complications after serious illness, and the other is to prevent diseases from affecting our normal life. For the elderly, herpes zoster can be said to affect the body of a skin disease, in order to avoid such a situation, let's talk about the treatment of herpes zoster facial paralysis.

Treatment of herpes zoster facial paralysis

Method 1: general therapy. This treatment is mainly to keep the local clean, dry and blister wall intact. It can be washed with isotonic normal saline every day, and pain patients can take oral analgesics to give mental comfort. Patients complicated with bacterial infection can use antibiotic ointment externally. If local pain is obvious, 5% lidocaine hydrochloride ointment or oral analgesics can be used.

Method 2: antiviral drugs. Nowadays, acyclovir is considered to be the most effective anti HSV drug in the current market. In severe cases, the drug can be given intravenously at a dose of 5mg / kg body weight, once every 8 hours, for 5-7 days. General patients can take 200mg orally, 4-5 times a day for 7-10 days. Severe cases can be intravenous drip, topical acyclovir ointment rub the affected area.

Method 3: pathogen therapy. With the development of medical technology, pathogen therapy is also a commonly used treatment method, which can selectively inhibit virus replication, reduce the occurrence of new damage, relieve pain, shorten wound healing and detoxification time.

matters needing attention

Here I would like to give you a warm tip: nerve herpes is common in young and middle-aged people, because of severe itching, patients often scratch, and patch like lesions with clear boundary, the number of patches varies, single or generalized around the body, and then there are lesions. The rash is papule planus, lichenoid change, no exudation, and the rash mostly occurs in the neck, limb extension, lumbar Di, popliteal fossa, vulva, and has the characteristics of high sensitivity Chronic course of disease, often recurrent characteristics, seriously affected people's normal life.