Shingles Case Study

Abstract

Our neighbour stopped me as I was driving post on Saturday morning, to confirm that her son had chicken pox. The diagnosis was obvious without even toking my seatbelt off. There was on epidemic in town anyway The usual advice and reassurance followed hastily, and was on my way. The following day was called to see this seven year old who was in severe pain. He had a high fever and was very tender in the right axilla and hyperaesthetic on the right side of his chest. Otherwise all systems were clear. I prescribed Stopayne, and reassued that he would get well soon. The neuralgia developing seemed very suggestive of that caused by the Varicella virus, pustules of which he only had in moderate quantities.