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Treatments for Shingles
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Tags: shingles, herpes zoster, varicella zoster virus, blisters, treatments
The shingles vaccine is only a preventive therapy and is not a treatment for those who already have shingles or postherpetic neuralgia.
| | The severity and duration of an attack of shingles can be significantly reduced by immediate treatment with antiviral drugs, which include acyclovir, valcyclovir, or famcyclovir. Antiviral drugs may also help stave off the painful after-effects of shingles known as postherpetic neuralgia. |
| | Other treatments for postherpetic neuralgia include steroids, antidepressants, anticonvulsants, and topical agents. |
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