There is a kind of pain called "Waist Dragon", like knife cutting, fire, electric shock ... Watch early prevention!

On June 20, the related topics of "shingles" appeared on the Internet hot search list. What is the disease of "snake entangled waist" and "waist dragon" by the people? Will shingles really be "tangled and terrible"?

It is said that the most beautiful but the sunset is red, but the most painful is "wrapped dragon". Facing the sneak attack of shingles, can you only be helpless lying flat?

What is "Waist Dragon"?

"Waist dragon" is the medical shingles that are medical. This disease is "known for pain". According to the patient's description, the pain of shingles is like knife cutting, fire burning, electric shock, whipping ... Even if the herpes disappear, many patients' pain will continue. Known as "undead cancer."

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Li Li, chief physician of the dermatology department of Beijing Union Hospital, introduced that shingles were caused by chickenpoxybilotic zoster virus. After the virus was infected with the human body for the first time, he lurked in the spinal back root ganglia or skull nerve festival. When the body's resistance was reduced Rest revitalizing, causing shingles.

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Because the pain directly comes from the damaged nerves, the patient will feel very unbearable neuralgia. Even if the blisters on many patients have healed, the pain will continue for a long time. This is neuralgia after shingles.

Is it fatal to turn her herpes along the waist?

So, can the herpes say that the herpes are rotating along the waist? Li Li said that herpes zoster violated a nerve segment and lurked in the back root ganglia of the peripheral nerve. When the onset was onset, the nerves and skin were involved along the nerves.

When the shingles are involved in the unilateral intercostal nerve, because the unilateral intercostal nerve only dominates the semi -shaped area of ​​this side from the back to the corresponding intercostal gap (not across the body of the body), it will not turn around for a circle. of. There are extremely rare dissemination types, that is, small blisters can appear in other locations, but this situation is very rare. Experts say that shingles themselves will not be fatal, so they don't have to be afraid.

The performance of "sneak attack" with shingles

Before the herpes really "come out", patients usually have physical discomfort, such as fatigue, low fever, headache, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, skin pain or burning sensation. Usually, these front -drive symptoms last 1 to 5 days.

Gradually, in the part where the pain or burning sensation, densely small blisters have "raised", usually unilateral and band -shaped along the specific area of ​​the nerve. The most common is on the chest. , Head, face, limbs, etc. We can even see a piece of "blisters" distributed on the surface of the skin. In severe cases, peripheral facial paralysis, hearing impairment and herpes meningitis may be complicated. Who is susceptible to shingles?

Elderly people, women, low immunity, people with low immunity, and people who have recently exhausted and stressful are high -income people.

It is found in clinically that shingles are risk of infection, but its infection is not high. Its infection is mainly for children with children who have no chickenpox and have poor immunity. The virus can be transmitted through droplets and contact, and the respiratory mucosa enters the human body.

Will shingles recur?

Those who have shingles can produce antibodies in their bodies, but this does not mean that they can be 100%immune for life. According to the People's Daily, doctors said that clinically, people who had shingles were also infected for the second or third time.

Although chickenpox and shingles are a virus, they belong to two diseases. Therefore, the chickenpox vaccine cannot prevent shingles. Similarly, shingles vaccine cannot prevent chickenpox.

However, it should be noted that if shingles are onset for the second time, patients need to consider whether they have other diseases that lead to low immunity, and go to the hospital for related examinations in time to eliminate the possibility of other diseases.

Prevent shinged shingles

Pay attention to diet and exercise frequently

Frequent exercise is conducive to enhancement. The usual diet is very important. Eat more bean foods. Eat more nutritious foods such as fish and lean meat, which can enhance resistance.

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Maintain a good sleep and enhance immunity

Preventing shingles should enhance physical fitness, improve their own disease resistance, and make the virus irrelevant. The easiest way is to maintain good sleep.

Data map: The public sleeps under the guidance of a professional hypnotist to release pressure. China News Agency sent by Wei Liang

vaccination

Age is an important factor in illness. Almost all people over 50 are exposed to risk of shingles.

For friends over 50 years old, they are recommended to vaccinate shingles. For people over 50 years old who have had chickenpox and have a lower immunity itself, they are more recommended to vaccinate.

Vaccination can prevent shingles, reduce the incidence of nerve pain after zoster -shaped, and shorten the duration of shingles.

Once you discover it, do not drag

72 hours is the golden time to control blisters. During this period, antiviral drugs are used in time to regulate the treatment, inhibit virus replication, and minimize nerve destruction as much as possible, which can greatly reduce the incidence of neuralgia after zoster.

Remind parents that if there is inexplicable burning pain, hissing pain, clothes or quilts if you feel the ribs, waist, back, head and face, etc., you must be highly vigilant if you accidentally rub it if you accidentally rub it. Just seek medical treatment as soon as possible.

Source/China News Network, Health China, Popular Science China, China Medical News, People's Daily, CCTV.com

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