Herpes Zoster Treatment

Herpes zoster treatment

        Salaries antiviral medicines are prescribed more often than antiviral drugs orally (intravenous administration is most often reserved for immunocompromised patients and severe forms of zoster), such as acyclovir or valacyclovir. The oral treatment should ideally be started within the first 72 hours after the rash of shingles and is taken into gereral for a week to 10 days Shingles Treatment by the oral route is particularly indicated in these situations:

• Ophthalmic zoster
• Patients over 50 years
• Shingles with signs suggestive of a risk of post herpetic pain

        Shingles or Herpes zoster is a viral disease that affects peripheral nerves, causing painful skin lesions and nerve damage. Shingles is only slightly contagious. Where does the shingles? This is the same virus as chickenpox virus (herpes zoster). Thus, to develop shingles, you must have already had chickenpox as a child ...