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HOW TO SURVIVE YOUR DOCTOR: SEBORRHOEIC DERMATITIS, SERENANCE AND SHINGLES
Seborrhoeic Dermatitis
Seborrhoeic Dermatitis affects the areas of skin with an increased supply of oil from the Sebaceous Glands. By any other name Seborrhoeic Dermatitis would be called dandruff. When it occurs in the scalp and eyebrows it is called just that: dandruff. It follows that opinion is divided as to whether Seborrhoeic Dermatitis is a pure dermatitis or dermatitis in response to a fungal infection. Both anti fungal and anti dermatitis treatments often have beneficial effects. Seborrhoeic Dermatitis on the face is easily controlled by Hydrocortisone cream. It often recurs; and Nizoral cream appears to provide longer periods of remission.
Serenance
Serenace is a potent major tranquillizer used in the treatment of Manic Depressive Psychosis and Schizophrenia. Combined with narcotic drugs Serenace produces a kind of anesthesia known as Neurolept. Neurolept anesthesia leaves the patient conscious, relaxed and capable of withstanding high levels of pain without distress. The side effects of Serenace are the side effects of all the major tranquillizers.
Shingles
In many people the Herpes Varicella virus lingers on after an attack of the Chicken Pox. It lives in nerve ganglia situated along the length of the spinal chord. When people become run down or immune depressed the virus travels down a nerve tract erupting on the skin to form a painful collection of Chicken Pox blisters. This collection of blisters is known colloquially as the Shingles.
Typically the Shingles affect only one side of the body and they are restricted to the division of one peripheral nerve. Eruptions that occur on and around the eye are particularly painful and distressing. After an attack of the Shingles, nerve tracts can remain damaged and continue to produce severe neuralgic pain.
A drug called Zovirax has been developed which stops the herpes virus from reproducing. Zovirax is capable of aborting an attack of the Shingles in its early stages. $400 for a 5 day course of treatment may not be too much to pay, if the complication of chronic neuralgic pain can be prevented.
Home Remedies
The skin lesions of Shingles are best kept clean and otherwise left alone. If secondary bacterial infections supervene oral antibiotics are in order.
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GENERAL HEALTH
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