Neuralgia

Neuralgia
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(nrl´j, ny-), acute paroxysmal pain along a peripheral sensory nerve. Unlike neuritis, there is no inflammation or degeneration of nerve tissue.
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Neuralgia can result from tooth decay, poor diet, eye strain, nose infections, or exposure to damp and cold. Postherpetic neuralgia is an intense debilitating pain felt at the site of a previous attack of shingles.
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Neuralgia is pain that follows the path of specific nerves.
Alternative Names:
Nerve pain; Postherpetic neuralgia
Causes, incidence, and risk factors: ...
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Neuralgia, sphenopalatine: A distinctive syndrome of headaches, better known today as cluster headache. There are two main clinical patterns of cluster headache -- the episodic and the chronic: ...
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Neuralgia is a term for pain caused by a nerve problem. Trigeminal neuralgia is a painful condition that affects the trigeminal nerve in the face, also called the fifth cranial nerve.
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Trigeminal Neuralgia Overview
Trigeminal neuralgia causes facial pain. Trigeminal neuralgia develops in mid to late life. The condition is the most frequently occurring of all the nerve pain disorders.
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Trigeminal neuralgia
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Trigeminal neuralgia affects women more often than men. The disorder is more likely to occur in people who are older than 50.
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Post-herpetic neuralgia seems to be more prevalent in the United States than in the rest of the world. In the U.S., 9 to 14 percent of people who have had shingles report suffering from PHN about a month after recovering from the infection.
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Trigeminal (try-JEM-uh-nul) neuralgia (noor-AL-guh) is a long-term problem marked by sudden attacks of facial pain. The length of the attacks ranges from a few seconds to several minutes.
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NEURALGIA: A sharp, shooting pain along a nerve pathway.
NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS OF AIDS: See Central Nervous System (CNS) Damage.
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NEURALGIA OF HANDS"Hot Hand Bath followed by cotton poultice
RADIATING PAINS"Fomentation to spine, 3 times a day, with well-protected (plastic covered) Heating Compress during the interval between; Revulsive Compress to spine.
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Postherpetic neuralgia is more common in people older than 60. It occurs in less than 10% of people younger than 60 after a bout of shingles but in more than 40% of people older than 60.
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postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) A painful, residual condition resulting from nerve injury after an outbreak of shingles (herpes zoster).
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Post herpetic neuralgia
Secondary bacterial skin infections
Recurrence (rare)
Generalized infection, organ (visceral) lesions, encephalitis or sepsis (in immunosuppressed persons)
Blindness (if lesions occur in the eye)
Deafness
Loss of taste ...
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Post-herpetic neuralgia - About 10% of adults who get shingles experience long-term pain in the area of skin where blisters occurred, even after the rash has healed completely. This condition may last for months or, very rarely, years.
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Some people may experience post-herpetic neuralgia, a condition that causes the skin to remain painful for months or sometimes years after a shingles rash has gone away.
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Trigeminal neuralgia is a condition that causes abnormal stimulation of one of the facial nerves. It causes episodes of shooting facial pain.
Bell's palsy is caused by paralysis of the facial nerve.
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A common complication of shingles is pain in the area of the rash that persists after the rash has disappeared, called post-herpetic neuralgia. People with intractable post-herpetic pain often become depressed.
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Acute and postherpetic neuralgia
Painful paresthesia and dysesthesia.
Thoracic and cranial nerve V are most common.
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This is a condition called postherpetic neuralgia. It is most likely to occur after a shingles outbreak in people over 50 years old.
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