Re: [CH] epidermal epistle
Charles Demas (demas@tiac.net)
Sun, 26 Apr 1998 09:43:11 -0400 (EDT)
On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, boz wrote:
> <major snippette>
> Hey, speaking of skin and capsaicin - my mom recently had a bout of
> shingles (viral skin disease) and the doctors told her there was no topical
> treatment to ease the tingling irritation. Someone else told me that there
> are cap products that can alleviate this. That's what I suspected, too.
> Anybody have information on this?
>
> Shingles is caused by the herpes simplex virus, the same virus that
> causes "cold sores" and/or "fever blisters" around the mouth. My secretary
> is punished with these from time to time, and she does the following- cuts
> a raw hab in half and applies the cut pepper directly to the area of
> scourge. Her eruptions are usually gone within 24 hours, compared to about
> 12-14 days if left untreated. So, I don't think a little cap cream would
> hurt, if you could stand it. No medical facts to back this up, just figure
> if it works on the virus on one part of the body, it should work on another
> part of the body.
>
> the gabacho chile picker <<<boz>>>
Huh?
I'm not a doctor, but ...
I thought that shingles was caused by the same thing as chicken pox.
This is from an online dictionary:
| Main Entry: herpes zos·ter
| Pronunciation: -'zäs-t&r
| Function: noun
| Etymology: New Latin, literally, girdle herpes
| Date: 1807
| : an acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglia of spinal and
| cranial nerves associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic
| pains and caused by reactivation of the poxvirus causing chicken pox
| -- called also shingles
I think you've got some stuff confused, Boz.
I don't believe that Herpes Simplex and Herpes Zoster are the same.
Chuck Demas
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