It happens. Only we are not talking about simple herpes on the lips, but about the shingles. This is worse.
Herpes zoster (aka herpes zoster) occurs after chickenpox. If a person has not had chickenpox, then there is no herpes zoster.
So then, after chickenpox, shingles may occur from time to time. He sprinkles not the whole body like chickenpox, but usually only along the course of some nerve. Most often it happens on the body, but it also happens on the head. This thing leaks worse on the head.
Once they noticed that after an injury, herpes zoster crawls out more often. Something there seems to be 12 times more often than without injury.
We still haven't figured out why this is happening.
We know that herpes lives somewhere in the nerve nodes in the head or near the spinal cord. Sometimes he gets out of there for some reason and crawls along the nerves into the skin. Well, redness and blisters already appear there.
According to one version, damage to the nerves leads to the activation of dormant herpes. He, like a shark, reacts to blood and rushes into the skin. They say that the nerves should be seriously damaged in this case. Some kind of broken cheekbone and something like that.
According to another version, herpes itself constantly travels to the skin to check if everything is fine there. Like regular business trips. But as soon as the herpes sticks its head out of the skin, then our immunity immediately slaps it.
But in the case of injury, the immune system is busy with the consequences of the injury itself. There, even without herpes, there will be many other infections and heaps of debris that the immune system needs to rake. Therefore, herpes slips unnoticed and does its dirty work.
This usually happens within a week of the injury. And here it is very important to distinguish between the consequences of the trauma itself in the form of a fingal, and the exacerbation of herpes, because it is better not to start it on the face.
In short, this herpes zoster cunning and strives to hide under the usual trauma.
