Datong News from the Yellow River News Network (Reporter Wei Yue) Recently, a 70-year-old grandmother Hu, who lives in the suburbs of the city, visited the Dermatology and Venereology Department of the Fourth People’s Hospital of Datong City because of “blisters on the right side of the ribs with pain”.
It is reported that the patient developed low-grade fever with no obvious incentives two days ago, and was drowsy and weak. Two days later, the patient felt itching, tingling, burning, and sometimes lightning-like tingling on the right waist and rib area, followed by erythema of different sizes on the local skin. Clusters of miliary-sized papules, vesicles, and papules appear on the erythema. The wall of the blisters is tense, clear and transparent, the blisters are surrounded by blush, the blisters are not integrated, and the skin color between the blisters is normal. Jili District suffered severe pain and poor diet and sleep. For further diagnosis and treatment, he came to the specialist outpatient clinic of the Fourth Hospital of Datong City.
After careful examination by Liu Weidong, director of the Department of Dermatology and Venereal Diseases of the Fourth Hospital of Datong, the physical examination was diagnosed as “herpes zoster”. The principle of treatment of complications is to give antiviral drugs to effectively inhibit the replication of varicella-zoster virus, relieve pain, shorten the course of disease, prevent and reduce complications of herpes zoster and other systemic treatments, and achieve satisfactory results.