The summer against shingles "attack"

Our reporter YiXiaoFeng correspondent JiangLiBo

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        "Hot summer, in addition to the summer hot cold, heat outside, still have a kind of attacks up a painful skin disease, this is what is commonly referred to as" bound "herpes zoster waist dragon." Recently, in accepting our newspaper reporter to interview, the first hospital, director of the past 50 years Harbin HuangQiuXian remind, half shingles patients early misdiagnosis is easy to disease, and once after diagnosis must give regular internal and early antiviral drugs and external Chinese herbal medicine, and suggests that application acupuncture treatment as soon as possible. Combine traditional Chinese and western medicine treatment method can greatly shorten, prevent red rash continued to spread and prevention appears possibly neuralgia (herpes zoster the most serious complications of).

        Shingles, the image of the traditional Chinese medicine called "snake string of sore" and "wrapped around the waist fire Dan", often in season or fatigue, cold sharp transform and dropped when infection virus and resistance to disease, its characteristic is along the side of peripheral nerve appeared clustered close blister, show clustered ribbon distribution, good hair in the chest, face, neck, waist and other parts. HuangQiuXian introduction, herpes zoster is by the chicken pox-shingles caused by virus, chickenpox and shingles etiology is the same kind of virus.

        Many people think that childhood had chickenpox, the body will be for the virus to produce the immune as adults, won't have to shingles. HuangQiuXian said, this concept is not correct. Most of the patients actually long ago--shingles infected with the chicken pox virus, because at that time did not come on strong resistance. But the virus could long dormant in root ganglion feeling after spinal cord nerve or cranial ganglion, incubation period could years or even decades. In most cases, the virus is in a "state of deep sleep, and a hard, stay up late, alcohol, mental burden overweight, acute infection or taking too many antibiotics, have the potential to make its" activate ". Some childhood the viral infection, although at that time can send the chicken pox virus hasn't completely from the body but clear, or the human body for the virus has not completely immune as adults, still be infected with the virus.

        In the years of clinical practice, director of the HuangQiuXian experience, there are three kinds of people are easy shingles--

        One is the old XieKui virtual popularity, easy for the pericardium invaded. The pathogenesis of herpes zoster and age is proportional to the obvious, the old people's immunity not good, slow metabolism, sick leave neuralgia more easily in the aftermath. 2 it is working strain, long-term stay up people vulnerable shingles "attack". Traditional Chinese medicine thinks, although herpes zoster was born in skin, but internal injuries, with gentle disposition of diseases, stagnation and turn fire or long with the hot and humid poison accumulate relevant in the body. Three is tumor patient with systemic lupus erythematosus, such as autoimmune diseases, and a large amount for a long time and use of growth hormone to infection shingles.

        HuangQiuXian said, had shingles first mental burden don't overweight. Traditional Chinese medicine thinks, shingles for more deficiency, hot and humid embodiment, warm resistance skin, as to make the qi stagnancy and blood stasis, meridian of lost, followed by the liver and gallbladder outside sends and into. Huang director emphasizes, just when he appeared herpes in acupuncture treatment effect is best, daily acupuncture once, early appropriate clear liver wet, detoxification pain; After drying, herpes, will the rest of the poison not completely, qi stagnancy and blood stasis, centralizer acupuncture but the property, remove the pain, through out evil. At present, the director of the department of the yellow in acupuncture, including acupuncture clip hole in the local area, ridge, point injection, thorn winding, infrared radiation cutem comprehensive therapy, make a subjective herpes zoster make the ideal effect. The second day of the general acupuncture, herpes started to turn dark, and gradually drying, scabby.

        Modern medical research also shows that acupuncture can stimulate the body's internal physiological stress system, neural humoral adjustment, make the immune functions strengthened, and produce analgesic effect. Acupuncture can also make the blood vessels of the focal inflammatory permeability is reduced, inhibit the inflammatory material. At the same time, on the body acupuncture comorbid low immunity of herpes zoster neuralgia, possibly, is raising the immune function of. As long as the acupuncture in early enough, usually seldom appears it is difficult to modern medicine cure WanTong symptoms-possibly neuralgia. Need to point out that happened after the shingles, patients must not to use a needle or the method such as toothpick prick, more not excessive scratching, lest increase skin rash or secondary infection.

        HuangQiuXian remind, into the summer food want to pay attention to light and refreshing, try to eat less spicy food warm. Drinks, ginger, chili, mutton, beef and Fried and fat of food of be bored with, after eating fire to help get hot. Traditional Chinese medicine thinks, herpes zoster fire is hot and humid wenjie in skin caused by poison. So, daily life should eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, to supplement. In addition, in the treatment of herpes zoster period, should keep the skin is dry clean patients, in a relaxed mood, and assure enough sleep, can help to the recovery of the patients.