Antivirals Drugs in Nigeria

This category holds the herpes-family antivirals — the medicines for cold sores, genital herpes, shingles and chickenpox. They share one honest limitation worth stating plainly: none of them removes the virus, which stays dormant in nerve cells between outbreaks. What they do, started early enough, is make outbreaks shorter and milder — and prevent most of them when taken daily as suppression. The early start is the whole game: cream at the first tingle of a cold sore, tablets within 72 hours of a shingles rash.

The Nigerian register is narrower here than the medicine cabinet abroad: aciclovir is registered as locally made Emzor tablets, several imported 5% creams and an eye ointment, and Valtrex (valaciclovir) as its fewer-doses-a-day relative — but no aciclovir injection, syrup or suspension holds a registration, so severe hospital cases and small children's doses need a doctor's management. And the same dormancy that makes these viruses incurable makes any 'permanent herpes cure' advert a reliable marker of a scam.