來源: http://health.clevelandclinic.org/2015/03/do-you-know-the-truth-about-shingles-infographic/
The nerve! The same virus that causes itchy, childhood chickenpox can return as an agonizing, nerve-blitzing skin rash in adults. Unwelcome and unpredictable, shingles attacks one in three people.
“The longer you live, the higher your risk,” says Robert Bolash, MD, a pain specialist at Cleveland Clinic.
But knowledge is power. Learn the truth about these top shingles myths and prepare to fight back.
帶狀皰疹最初的症狀不是紅疹,而經常是先出現頭痛、惡心、發熱或冷,然後才是癢、熱、刺痛...;
它不一定隻出現在軀幹上,頸部、臉和眼也會有;
你可能會多次感染;
它會傳染;
60歲以上的人可以注射疫苗,可降低50%的得帶狀皰疹的風險;
得了後最理想的治療時間是在三天內使用抗病毒藥,越早越好。這些抗病毒藥有葛蘭素史克公司的Acyclovir(英文商品名Zovirax,中文商品名: 熱威樂素);諾華公司的Farmvir(中文商品名: 抗濾兒);
高達40%的帶狀皰疹者的疼痛會持續多月或多年。帶狀皰疹如果沒有得到及時處理,病毒未被清除,末梢神經受損,就會有後遺神經痛(postherpetic neuralgia),治療上可用鎮痛藥、神經阻滯注射或甚至植入神經刺激器來阻斷疼痛信號。


頸部和肩部的帶狀皰疹水泡
via:http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B8%A6%E7%8A%B6%E7%96%B1%E7%96%B9