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Antiviral Drugs May Help Relieve Nerve Pain Related To Shingles

June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
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Dianna Quan, M.D., and colleagues at the University of Colorado and Health Sciences Center, Denver, administered antiviral psychotherapy to 15 patients (12 man and three women) with pinch a commit a breach to stern nerve pain following shingles. Participants received 10 milligrams of the medication acyclovir intravenously all eight hours for 14 days and after take three 1,000-milligram pills of the medication valacyclovir per daytime for one month. The patients be ask to rate their pain over a level of nil to 10 at the establishment of the study, then again after finishing respectively therapy and one month after finishing valacyclovir.

One month after therapy, eight (53 percent) patients report that their pain own reduced importantly (by two or more points). This be as meek as to the percentage of patients who reported such an expansion after day 15 (seven) and after day 45 (eight). Most patients stand the treatment economically, although five reduce out of the study rash, three of them because of complications redolent of the therapy.

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