How can you treat the shingles virus?!
Question: How can you treat the shingles virus!?
My friend has shingles!. He went to the Doctor but they gave him only pills!. Is there a lotion over the counter you can use for the itching and or pain!. I know it is from chickenpox so can you give it to someone else like chicken-pox!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
<<!.!. Doctor but they gave him only pills!.!.>
yes, acyclovir, valacyclovir, or famciclovir are all appropriate and effective treatments!.
<< Is there a lotion over the counter you can use for the itching>>
yes - topical benedryl will offer MINIMAL symptomatic improvement
oral benadryl may also help a bit!.
your doctor can certainly prescribe pain medication - but avoid getting hooked on prescription pain remedies!. I have had shingles myself, and I know how bothersome the pain is, but I took nothing for it - - it is certainly not something that warrants getting hooked on narcotics!.
Note that topical lidocaine patches are NOT approved to be used on broken skin -- but they are very good AFTER the skin has healed, when the pain persists!.
<< I know it is from chickenpox so can you give it to someone else like chicken-pox!?>>>
yes you can!.
it is transmitted by touching the involved skin - so don't touch it!!!
it is not transmitted by the respiratory route - you can't breathe it in!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
yes, acyclovir, valacyclovir, or famciclovir are all appropriate and effective treatments!.
<< Is there a lotion over the counter you can use for the itching>>
yes - topical benedryl will offer MINIMAL symptomatic improvement
oral benadryl may also help a bit!.
your doctor can certainly prescribe pain medication - but avoid getting hooked on prescription pain remedies!. I have had shingles myself, and I know how bothersome the pain is, but I took nothing for it - - it is certainly not something that warrants getting hooked on narcotics!.
Note that topical lidocaine patches are NOT approved to be used on broken skin -- but they are very good AFTER the skin has healed, when the pain persists!.
<< I know it is from chickenpox so can you give it to someone else like chicken-pox!?>>>
yes you can!.
it is transmitted by touching the involved skin - so don't touch it!!!
it is not transmitted by the respiratory route - you can't breathe it in!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Good question!. Shingles is not a virus it is caused by antibodies to the ckicken pox virus I think!. Don't quote me!. I don't believe that it is contagious!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
It's not contagious to anyone who has had chickenpox!.
His doctor can also prescribe topical pain medication!. My mom had it, and she used a patch containing lidocaine!. Www@Answer-Health@Com
His doctor can also prescribe topical pain medication!. My mom had it, and she used a patch containing lidocaine!. Www@Answer-Health@Com
You cannot give someone else the shingles!. A person with shingles can give the chicken pox to someone who has not had the chicken pox before!. Www@Answer-Health@Com