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Hello everyone, so here we are given a patient's history so and we are asked a series of questions.
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So the first question here asked is what is the patient's diagnosis? so this patient's symptoms include left facial papulovascular lesions.
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So these lesions extended in scalp and she also have this headache and is not feeling well.
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So we can say that these symptoms are consistent with the herpes zoster.
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So the answer for our first question is herpes zoster otherwise the shingles.
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She is suffering from the shingles.
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Now second question here asked is what is the plan of action for this diagnosis? so this herpes zoster is a virus.
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So in order to treat this number one thing, the number one thing in which we include in the diagnosis is to prescribe an antiviral medication.
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So this includes several antiviral drugs such as acyclovir, valacyclovir etc...