Shingles Cure- Natural Cures for Shingles
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Shingles has no cure but there are medicinal and natural treatments available to serve as shingles cure to avoid complications as well as reduce the duration of the ailments.
Below are the medicinal treatments you can use in case you are afflicted with shingles:
1. Antiviral drugs or combination of antiviral drugs and corticosteroids to lessen the pain and duration of shingles.
2. Medicines for pain, topical creams, and antidepressants to offer long-term relief from pain.
3. Antiviral drugs like valacyclovir, famciclovir or acyclovir to lessen the pain and duration of outbreak. As a note, oral antiviral drugs if taken within three days from the initial outbreak of shingles will normally lessen the period of expectancy and severity of the shingles. The most important of all is the prevention of a permanent nerve pain.
4. Over-the-counter pain drugs like ibuprofen, aspirin, or acetaminophen as pain relievers. They also act as muscles and pain relievers.
5. Corticosteroids or the combination of corticosteroids and antiviral drugs as pain reliever can reduced duration of shingles.
6. Topical antibiotics, which is directly applied to the skin. This will prevent infection of blisters.
7. Antihistamine will reduce the itching and inflammation.
Although shingles is not considered contagious, it can be transmitted as a form of chickenpox to anyone who comes in contact. Young children without immunization shots or with unhealthy immune systems including those undergoing radiation therapy or chemotherapy, as well as the elderly are most susceptible to shingles. Previous thinking dictates that young children should get their smallpox from schoolmates or friends on purpose. By doing this, they can prevent being sterile when they acquire the virus at an older age.
However, recent developments noted that when a person is infected by smallpox, shingles might resurface in the future. When affected by shingles, the severity may vary with every person. If antiviral is not administered, the risk of nerve pain may last a number of years or worst, a lifetime.
Now if a person, especially a child cannot take drug medications for some reason or another, there are available natural cures for shingles. Rather than suffer the risk of complications from drug medications or from letting shingles left untreated try these alternative forms of medications:
1. Apple cider vinegar–Apply to the skin area with shingles at least four times during the day and three times at night. After the application, the skin burning and itching sensations will disappear in a few minutes.
2. Jewelweed–This should be applied as a topical treatment on the area with shingles.
3. Multivitamins–Take multivitamins with magnesium, calcium, selenium, lysine, zinc; and vitamins A, C, D, E and B-12 are essential as shingles cure in order to strengthen the immune system.
4. Acidophilus and garlic tablets–These will relieve the pain and itching.
5. As part of the natural shingles cure, there are also foods to avoid like seeds, nuts, and chocolates due to their arginine content. Excessive amount of arginine in our body will lessen the benefits that will be derived from lysine. Heat and direct sunlight should also be avoided particularly if it will result to sunburn.
Another natural cure for shingles is an antiviral medicine that is made from elderberry extract. This over-the-counter drug is highly effective if you have flu or colds, all of which are viruses. What may be even powerful against shingles are the combinations of elderberry extract, raw honey, propolis extract, organic apple cider vinegar and echinacea root extract.
These shingles cures do not have the side effects present in almost all of the traditional medications. However, before taking any medication whether traditional or natural, a doctor should be visited for proper medication and consultation.