The pain is so painful that I doubt life, the pain of the struggle, the pain of the knife piercing the ribs, as if breathing is a pain.
However, this is not childbirth, and the pain that a woman suffers during childbirth is equivalent to the pain of suffering 20 bones and fractures at the same time.
The pain of this disease is even more painful than during childbirth, which is what most people call "immortal cancer" ----- shingles.
The disease occurs most often in middle-aged and elderly people.
Snake-wrapped, waist-wrapped snake, waist-wrapped fire? There are many names for shingles
Herpes with heat, also known as "Plesiosaurus", or snake-banded waist, is an infectious disease caused by infection with the varicella zoster virus.
After being infected with this virus, if the body's immunity is relatively strong, the virus will lurk in the human body.
If the body's immunity drops, the virus will wake up quickly and will become active.
And it develops along the sensory nerves. Affected skin will have a series of rashes, such as some blisters. And in the area where the lesions appear, the nerves will be damaged, which will cause the patient to have burning pain, knife-like pain, or electric shock-like pain.
This pain, the pain is widespread and present all the time
The real scary thing about shingles is that the virus comes out of the nerves, and even if the herpes gets better, it will be accompanied by sequelae neuralgia, and it will be particularly painful.
Once shingles is developed, the lesions are widely distributed and are not confined to a very small location, such as around the entire chest, abdomen, or the entire head, face and limbs.
Although it does not pass directly through the center of the body, due to the wide distribution, whether the patient is sitting, standing, walking, walking, lying down, whether it is day or night, the pain will always feel this pain.
This pain lasts a very long time, usually lasting about three months.
About 10% of patients will still have painful periods for a long time after suffering from shingles, even after scientific and standardized treatment and the condition has recovered.
This pain lasts from 5 to 10 years, and this pain is called sequelae neuralgia.
Not only is it painful, but shingles can also easily induce complications
For some people with low immunity or no scientifically standardized treatment, shingles can cause a variety of complications.
In 2% of patients, after the disease, it will induce a bacterial infection of the skin, and the patient's skin lesions will have a very large amount of exudate, accompanied by severe redness and swelling.
In 2% of patients, eye complications occur, resulting in severe pain in the eye area and decreased vision.
In addition, some patients will lead to ear complications, not only severe pain behind the ear and other parts, but also very likely to lead to permanent hearing loss or permanent facial paralysis.
How to treat this annoying pain?
A truly reliable treatment is the need for early antiviral therapy, preferably within 48 hours of the appearance of the rash.
Although this treatment does not accelerate the disappearance of blisters, it can inhibit viral replication and limit damage to nerves, thereby reducing the incidence of neuralgia, or alleviating symptoms and avoiding an expanded range of effects.
Once unbearable pain is developed, patients can take oral painkillers, such as paracetamol, and if not well controlled, a low-potency anesthetic analgesic (e.g., tramadol) may be added under the guidance of a doctor.
At the same time, patients can also use topical painkillers, such as lidocaine gel, or capsaicin ointment.
Is it useful for the hair dryer to blow hot air?
Some elderly people think that using a hair dryer to blow hot air to the place of illness seems to be somewhat better.
Not only is this approach useless, but it can also hurt. Itself, hot air, hot water, etc. to increase the temperature of the skin, but also only make the pain feel sluggish, making people feel less painful.
But in fact, although herpes is on the surface of the skin, the virus hides deep in the sensory nerves, and simply blowing the skin with hot air cannot kill or inhibit the purpose of the virus, let alone cure shingles.
On the contrary, long-term drying with high temperature may cause the skin to dry and crack, and may even be burned.
There is already a lesion itself, this time another injury, try to ask the skin can still bear it?
bibliography:
[1] Wang Guanqing,Li Xiaoxia. Clinical epidemiology and prevention of shingles[J]. Chinese Journal of Dermatology and Venereology,2018,32(11):1325-1330.