Study Shows Steroids Only Relieve Shingles Pain Temporarily
Standard treatment nor treatment including an epidural injection of steroids will do enough to stop the chronic pain of shingles.
(PRWEB) February 10, 2006 -- Shingles sufferers, prepare to be disappointed. According to a recent Dutch study, neither standard treatment nor treatment including an epidural injection of steroids will do enough to stop the chronic pain of shingles.
The study gave one group of shingles patients standard oral therapy and gave the other group both standard oral treatment with one injection of steroids and one injection of a local anesthetic.
The first group reported no change in their pain, while reports of pain in the second group decreased for only about a month. The conclusion from the study was that the injections should only be used for patients with the most severe shingles pain that does not respond to standard treatment.
According to WebMD, shingles, or herpes zoster, is caused when the chicken pox virus, varicella-zoster, lies dormant in one’s body for a period of many years and is later reactivated, usually due to disease or aging.
The symptoms of shingles include pain, a red, bumpy rash, and later pus-filled blisters and scabs. Shingles can be extremely painful and can cause life-threatening complications, such as infection of vital organs, in people with weakened immune systems.
Based on the Dutch study results, it seems that the medical community has offered shingles sufferers few real solutions to their problem.
A company in Memphis, TN, Selmedica Healthcare, says they have do have a solution: Zynoxin, which is said to be a precisely balanced blend of botanicals that attacks herpes zoster from the inside out, healing shingles naturally.
“Zynoxin is the only complete Shingles system in the world,” asserts Katie May, one of Selmedica’s scientists, going on to say, “it not only treats the pain of constant itching and burning, it also treats the causes of Shingles to prevent future attacks.”
For more information about Shingles and herpes zoster, visit www.zynoxin.com.
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