Thursday, April 3, 2008

No measles alert period Herpes Zoster

By the varicella zoster - zoster virus infection of the skin and nerve damage diseases, the initial infection of this virus does not necessarily immediately after the incidence, the virus enters the nerve endings in the skin, some lasting latent virus in the spinal cord root ganglion cells , when immunity to the virus, reducing the proliferation activities, involvement parts of ganglion and skin causing inflammation and cause pain.
Distribution of erythema along the nerve and blister obvious pain is the characteristics of herpes zoster, but in clinical diagnosis often encountered in some cases, a late rash or a rash instead of only pain, the doctor in the diagnosis more Bizhoushe, patients also received painful. For example, for some people, the pain of herpes zoster, the nerve damage is the trigeminal nerve upper branch, like toothache. Some parts joint pain, the entire left leg along the sciatic nerve issued multiple erythema and small blisters, and skin burning sense, this is a case to the illusion of joint pain for herpes zoster.
In addition, there is no eruption of the chest herpes zoster was misdiagnosed as pleurisy or angina cases; abdominal herpes zoster are sometimes used as cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, appendicitis and was taken to the operating room; waist herpes zoster be deemed to have kidney ureteral stones reports. Herpes Zoster nerve damage in addition to the pain, there are also other manifestations, such as the case of patients, half a month before the waist and legs with herpes zoster, has been cured, measles elimination withdrawal pain, the patient's self-satisfaction. Later that suddenly unsteady gait, walking often involuntary and hit the roadside wall, walk in the street level, at the foot of the feelings are like walk in the slopes. Finally, in the diagnosis of neurological treatment for herpes zoster caused by spinal cord motor neurons damaged by the patient cured.
Herpes Zoster often in the lower body when the immune disease, the disease of Health had not renewable after the second general, if repeated incidence of herpes zoster patients, the lesions are more extensive, the patient's immunity poor, It might be possible to be with neoplasms, should be special attention.

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