Herpes Zoster

What is Herpes Zoster?

It is also known as shingles. It is a viral infection reactivation of a viral infection in the nerves to the skin.

It usually appears as a stripe of blisters on one side of the body, typically on the torso, neck, or face. 

Most cases of shingles clear up within 3 to 5 weeks. It is most common after the age of 50, but it can appear at any age if a person has previously had chickenpox. 

What causes Herpes Zoster?

It is caused by the varicella zoster virus, or VZV—the same virus that causes chickenpox. Even after the chickenpox infection is over, the virus remains dormant in your nervous system for years before reactivating as herpes zoster. 

Sign & Symptoms 

Shingles usually affects one side of the body. This is most often the waist, chest, abdomen, or back. Symptoms can also appear on the face and in the eyes, mouth, ears. The virus can also affect some internal organs. 

The early signs of shingles include:

• Enlarged lymph nodes

• Fever, chills, and headache

• Itching

• Raised dots on your skin and redness in that area

• Stabbing or shooting pain

• Tingling or burning feeling in or under your skin

• Upset stomach

Shingles is a painful rash that develops on one side of the face or body. The rash consists of blisters that typically scab over in 7 to 10 days and fully clears up within 2 to 4 weeks.

Before the rash appears, people often have pain, itching, or tingling in the area where it will develop. This may happen several days before the rash appears.

Most commonly, the rash occurs in a single stripe around either the left or the right side of the body. In other cases, the rash occurs on one side of the face. Shingles on the face can affect the eye and cause vision loss. In rare cases (usually in people with weakened immune systems), the rash may be more widespread on the body and look similar to a chickenpox rash.

Risk factors 

• a weakened immune system (such as people with cancer, HIV, organ transplant recipients or those receiving chemotherapy)

• emotional stress

• Aging; Over the age of 50.

• undergoing cancer treatments or major surgery

• experienced trauma 

Treatment: How can Homoeopathy helps in Herpes zoster?

Homoeopathic remedy can help with reducing the severity and duration of symptoms. It helps in preventing complications from developing lowering the risk of the rash coming back. 

Brahma Madhurya homoeopathic clinic have a solution for your herpes zoster, where they prescribe a suitable remedy for you, which helps to ease pain, removes swelling, treat itching, removes other symptoms & prevents from further complications.

This treatment will be a holistic which helps to improve patient’s immunity & helps it from further recurrence.