How to treat postherpetic neuralgia

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When I was rooming with my wife last month, I was wearing a condom. After 8 days, there was a rice sized blood scab in the coronary sulcus. After 2 days, it broke and there was white secretion. Finally, I checked that it was herpes zoster. How to treat postherpetic neuralgia? Do you have any experience with these procedures? Today, let me talk about how to treat postherpetic neuralgia.

How to treat postherpetic neuralgia

Treatment 1: please adhere to the treatment in time under the guidance of the doctor, oral antiviral drugs can be taken under the guidance of the doctor, combined with topical drugs, should pay attention to rest, avoid smoking and drinking, prohibit sex life, keep the affected area clean and dry, eat more vegetables and fruits, eat less greasy and spicy food.

Treatment 2: the treatment of bacterial infection, can be topical antibiotic ointment, local pain is obvious, can use a little analgesic drugs, antiviral treatment: oral or injection of antiviral drugs. Can go to the hospital to do the next cytological examination, clear diagnosis, symptomatic treatment.

Treatment 3: herpes zoster general treatment: mainly to keep local clean, dry. 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, topical 5% lidocaine hydrochloride ointment or oral analgesics can be used.

matters needing attention

The diet needs to be changed in order to enhance immunity and avoid frequent infection with mold. We should eat less starch, sugar and stimulating food such as wine and pepper, and eat more vegetables and fruits with sufficient water.