To treat your shingles your doctor may recommend.
Treatment for shingles pain and itching.
For extra relief add colloidal oatmeal which is made of oats that have.
Treatment options for phn patients include.
Run a washcloth under cool water and place it on your blisters for about 20 minutes at a time.
If the pain lasts for at least 3 months after the shingles rash has healed a person is diagnosed with phn.
Intercostal nerve blocks.
In some people the pain will subside.
Capsaicin topical patch qutenza anticonvulsants such as gabapentin neurontin tricyclic antidepressants such as amitriptyline numbing agents such as lidocaine delivered via a cream gel spray or skin patch medications that.
Prescription antiviral drugs such as acyclovir zovirax.
Shingles can cause severe pain so your doctor also may prescribe.
Available treatments include anti inflammatory injections nerve blocks certain tricyclic antidepressants or capsaicin cream which is made from chili peppers and can help ease nerve pain.
Dip into a cool tub of water.
In others it won t.
What you can do to help recover from shingles.
Anti inflammatory medicine can be injected into the space around the spinal cord to decrease nerve root inflammation.