Treatment options are limited for patients with postherpetic neuralgia (PHN), a chronic pain disorder caused by reactivation of the varicella zoster virus. Topical application of capsaicin ...

Lidocaine, along with other topical creams, can help treat nerve pain near the skin ... (a complication of shingles). There’s also little evidence that capsaicin may benefit people with ...

Researchers have now seen in a study patients with post-shingles pain that capsaicin acts on pain-responsive pain fibers. In the study, participants were treated with the capsaicin patch showed 33 ...