Natural Remedies For Shingles

Shingles, also known as herpes zoster virus, is a disease that is caused by the vermicelli-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox. It is the reactivation of the herpes virus that causes painful skin blisters.

The blisters can appear anywhere on the body, but is most commonly found on the skin of on the trunk area of the body along a peripheral nerve. Since it is the same virus that causes chickenpox, anyone who has had chickenpox as a child has a proneness to get shingles.

The first symptoms of shingles are usually malaise, chills, fever, and there is usually pain in the area affected for a day or so before the very painful blisters appear. Shingles usually does not appear until decades after a person has had chickenpox.

The vermicelli-zoster virus that causes chickenpox does not leaves the body once it has entered the body. It lays dormant in the spinal cord and nerve ganglia for years until it is activated, usually by a weakening of the immune system.

Shingles around the eye area can be very serious and possibly cause blindness. Nerve damage can occur from shingles in any area that it affects. This can last for weeks, months, even years. Shingles can also capable of affecting internal organs, attacking the lungs, kidneys, and liver.

The key to managing this disease is to get the body to stimulate antibody production. Herbs and natural remedies for shingles can help with this first line of defense.

Symptoms of the shingles:

Appears first:

* chills

* fever

* headache

* achy feeling

* may also be some pain in the affected area

Once the tiny-fluid filled blisters appear there may be:

* red rim around the area

* fatigue

* tingling

* numbness

* shooting pains

* depression

* swollen and painful lymph nodes

This phase of shingles will usually last seven to fourteen days. The blisters eventually scab over and drop off and often leave scars; some can be severe. Most of the information I have read says that reocurrences of shingles is rare. I have had shingles and have had about seven reocurrences. They usually appear when I get a cold or when I am having my menstrual period.

Natural Remedies for Shingles:

Homeopathic

Herbal and Aromatherapy

Home Remedies