Herpes Zoster Reacting with Short-Term Corticosteroid Therapy in a Healthy 8-Year-Old Girl

Abstract

Herpes zoster (HZ) is an infectious disease characterized by acute vesicles, located in the dermatomes formed by the reactivation of varicella zoster virus with dorsal ganglia. Although the disease is common in advanced age and in immunosuppressed people, it can also be seen rarely in healthy children and young people who have had in the early period. Herpes zoster in children have a mild course of the disease and the disease mainly affects the thoracic dermatomes. The clinical manifestations of the disease in children differ from adults. Pain and postherpetic neuralgia are rarely seen in pediatric patients before the onset of herpes zoster rashes and during rash. Unlike the findings in adults, herpes zoster in children is painless but itchy. In this study, we presented a herpes zoster case -8 years old girl- who had suffered chickenpox at the age of one and had received short time corticosteroid therapy for acute urticaria two weeks before herpes zoster.