The article presents answers to a question on shingles and its treatment including the cause of the disease, the use of acupuncture in treating shingles and the use of capsaicin cream as treatment for the disease.WillenborgAnneMarleyJoyceMesser...
If you’ve had chicken pox, then you can get shingles. Find out what it looks like and how it’s treated.
Shingles: How to prevent it, how to treat it Zoster vaccine is the most effective strategy to prevent shingles and to ameliorate complications such as postherpetic neuralgia. Antiviral treatment is effective in treating shingles attacks if used early....
How do I Treat Skin Herpes? Discussion Comments ByRotergirl— On Jul 29, 2014 About the only thing you can do for facial shingles, besides getting to the doctor and taking your medicine, is using lidocaine patches for pain, and calamine lotion to help soothe the skin. ...
I read that during WWII, soldiers who were having shingles outbreaks would apply a mixture of aspirin powder and petroleum jelly on the blisters to treat them. I tried it recently and it works! I crushed five tablets and mixed it with petroleum jelly. It takes away the itch and pain and...
What is Lyrica used to treat? Lyrica (pregabalin) is used to treat fibromyalgia, and nerve pain associated with diabetic neuropathy, shingles (postherpetic neuralgia), and spinal cord injuries in adults 18 years and older. It is also approved as an add-on therapy for partial-onset seizures (...
Healthcare workers have become extremely active in publicizing the negative effects of smoking. Healthcare workers have been instrumental in passing various legislation to limit smoking in public. As a result, the proportion of people in the US who smoke has dropped from 40.4% in 1965 to around...
Certain triggers can cause the hibernating virus to wake up, become active, and travel back to the skin, causing a recurrent infection. These outbreaks tend to be milder than primary infections and generally occur in the same location as the primary infection. The frequency of recurrence is unp...
Lyrica (pregabalin) is a drug used to treat the pain offibromyalgia. In addition, it's FDA approved for use indiabetic neuropathyandpostherpetic neuralgia(shingles). It's also an anti-seizure medication.1 The FDA approved Lyrica for fibromyalgia in June 2007, making it the first drug ever ap...
Lessen your chances of passing HIV on to other people You’re more likely to get certain infections if you have HIV (the risk goes down if you take your HIV medications). These infections include: Viral infections such as herpes and shingles, treated with rest and antiviral meds ...