How to treat dietary taboos in raw snakes

Herpes zoster is actually medically referred to as herpes zoster. The core point of treatment is to seize the golden window of 72 hours after the onset of the disease and take antiviral drugs. There are no absolute taboos in diet. As long as you have eaten foods without allergic reactions in the past, you can eat them normally. Ensuring nutritional supply can speed up recovery.

My cousin got this disease just last month. At first, he had several red rashes on his waist, which were painful. The elders in the family insisted that it was a "snake wrapped around his waist" and used ink to draw a circle around the rash to seal the "snake's head". He was also ordered not to touch eggs, fish, shrimp, beef and mutton, and he could only drink white porridge with stir-fried cabbage every meal. As a result, the pain lasted for two days and he couldn't sleep all night. The rash spread along his waist and back. He was so frightened that he quickly went to the dermatology department to register. The doctor calculated that it had not been 72 hours since the onset of the disease, so he prescribed oral valacyclovir, topical calamine lotion and analgesic gabapentin. After taking it home for three days, most of the pain disappeared. When I went to see him, he said his mouth was so pale that he wanted to eat the braised shrimp downstairs. I packed two kilograms of it directly for him. After eating it, nothing happened. In less than ten days, all the scabs on the rash were gone, and there was no annoying posterior neuralgia.

When it comes to this, some people will definitely ask, isn’t it said that when giving birth to a snake, you should avoid “fading things”? There are indeed different opinions on this point. According to the experience passed down by the older generation, spicy, fishy, and hot food will make the rash worse. Some Chinese medicine practitioners also recommend that if the symptoms of skin redness, swelling, heat and pain are particularly obvious in the acute stage, you can temporarily avoid spicy food and strong alcohol. There are also special heat supplements to avoid aggravating local discomfort. This is actually not wrong. You can adjust it according to your own body feeling. If you really feel that the rash is burning after eating spicy food, then it is okay to take a few bites less for the time being. There is really no need to cut it off and avoid touching anything.

At least in the many cases I have come across, as long as you are not allergic to a certain food before, you can eat it normally. After all, the essence of this disease is that after you got chickenpox as a child, the virus hidden in the ganglion has not been cleared away. When you stay up late, are tired, and your immunity has dropped recently, it is like a little spy hidden in the body taking advantage of the opportunity to wreak havoc. You have to give the body enough nutritional ammunition to defeat it. There was a 62-year-old aunt who didn't even dare to touch pork after getting shingles. She only drank white porridge. After half a month, the rash had not scabbed. Instead, she fell down due to malnutrition. Later, she listened to the doctor and added a glass of milk and two eggs every day. She ate lean meat and vegetables normally, and she was fine within a week.

By the way, there is another pitfall that you must not step on. Don’t apply random folk remedies such as toothpaste, garlic, and ink to the rash. The skin at the herpes area is already thin. Applying these irritating things can easily lead to ulceration and infection. Instead, it is easy to leave pigmentation and even scars. If the pain is really uncomfortable, ask a doctor to prescribe some symptomatic analgesics, which will be more effective than any ordinary method.