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Shingles could be new but rare side effect of Covid vaccine, docs discover
https://www.the-sun.com UK ^
| Apr 21 2021, 5:00 ET - Updated: Apr 21 2021, 5:52 ET
| Terri-Ann Williams, Digital Health Reporter
Posted on 04/21/2021 5:50:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
Experts in Israel found that patients with certain autoimmune diseases who received the Pfizer/BioNTech jab were more likely to develop the rash than those without the condition.
Side effects can occur with any medication, including vaccines.
They are always listed on the product information leaflet which comes with the medication.
Most people who have a Covid jab won’t suffer any side effects but for those who have experienced them, the most common include pain at the site of injection and fatigue.
Medics at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Carmel Medical Center in Haifa found that shingles was five times more common after the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
The experts said the study “should not scare people” but that it needed to be published so that doctors were aware of the possible side effect.
Dr Victoria Furer, a rheumatologist at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, said that they cannot say for sure that the vaccine is the cause of the shingles, a skin rash also known has herpes zoster.
Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, she said: “We can say it might be a trigger in some patients.”
She added that five out of the six patients who had developed shingles after the vaccine had an autoimmune disease.
Dr Furer said: “That is why we reported on it. It seems that the reason is that there is some association.
“We should not scare people. The overall message is to get vaccinated. It is just important to be aware.”
What is shingles?
SHINGLES is an infection that causes a painful rash and blotchy patches on the skin.
The condition is serious enough to merit seeing your GP — so what are the symptoms to look out for?
Shingles is caused by an infection that re-triggers the varicella zoster virus (VZV).VZV firsts infects the body when you get chickenpox, and the virus can remain inactive in nerve cells to reappear as shingles.
It is not fully understood what can trigger shingles, but old age, a poor immune system and having had chickenpox before 18-months are risk factors.
What are the symptoms?
The most common first signs of shingles are tingling or pains in patches of the skin along with headaches.
A rash can then appear, usually on the chest or stomach — but it can also appear on the face, eyes and genitals, according to the NHS website.
The shingles rash appears as red blotches on your skin, on one side of your body only. A rash on both the left and right of your body is unlikely to be shingles.
The blotches become itchy blisters which ooze fluid. A few days later the blisters dry out and scab.
The rash can form a band that only appears on one side of your body. The skin remains painful until after the rash has gone.
You should speak to a GP as soon as you suspect you have shingles.
Medication can speed up the recovery. Some autoimmune diseases, autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases (AIIRD), can cause the immune system to attack certain parts of a person’s body including the organs.
People with AIIRD include those suffering from conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Many people with this condition will suffer swelling and joint numbness.
Millions of people across the UK have received a first and second dose of the Pfizer jab and the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), have not released any information to suggest patients have come down with shingles.
In total, 33 million Brits have received a first dose of either Pfizer, Oxford/AstraZeneca or Moderna jab, with more than 10.4 million having had a second.
Published in the journal Rheumatology, the team looked at 590 patients who received the Pfizer jab.
In the group, 491 of the patients had a form of AIIRD.
The study found that 1.2 per cent of the patients with AIIRD developed shingles - this is just six patients.
Five patients contracted shingles after the first dose, and one after the second.
The researchers added that a larger study would need to be conducted in order to garner better results.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Israel
KEYWORDS: autoimmunedisease; fauxccine; herpes; shingles; sideeffects; vaccinebadeffects
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To: phoneman08
Health organizations show that anyone born in 1980 or later was likely (99% of population) exposed to chicken pox as a child. While we can still get shingles, it’s survivable.
Chicken pox, like COVID, is very mild for children, making it an ideal vaccination target for youth.
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posted on
04/21/2021 6:22:28 AM PDT
by
rarestia
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To: Red Badger
I worked with a guy many years ago whose wife nagged him forever to get a flu shot. He kept refusing and the nagging kept escalating to the point where he finally gave in just to keep the peace....well, he got the shot and then ended up with shingles. He was pissed and the next year she kept her mouth shut.
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posted on
04/21/2021 6:24:01 AM PDT
by
rockabyebaby
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To: rarestia
I take anti virals everyday as a prophylactic for shingles (due to immune system issues). For 5 years now. Need to get the new shingles vaccine so I can get off of the meds.
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posted on
04/21/2021 6:29:09 AM PDT
by
HollyB
To: Red Badger
pain at the site of injection and fatigue. That's the reaction I had the day after each of the two shots. The day after that I was fine....
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posted on
04/21/2021 6:31:15 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
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To: rarestia
Shingles is caused by re-activation of the varicella zoster virus for those that have had chicken pox.
Are you saying that it’s devastating to those who have had chicken pox as adults or for those that have not had chicken pox at all? Because you can’t get shingles if you’ve never had chicken pox.
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04/21/2021 6:42:11 AM PDT
by
Hazwaste
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To: Hazwaste
So you’re saying if you never had chicken pox, the varicella zoster virus just misses you altogether? Perhaps you should review the links I sent earlier in the thread.
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posted on
04/21/2021 6:43:27 AM PDT
by
rarestia
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To: rarestia
weren’t exposed to chicken pox as a childOddly enough, I didn't contract chicken pox until I was in the Army. I caught it from my room mate and was quarantined at the base hospital for 10 days.
What was really weird tho, all the skin on the palm of my hands peeled off leaving them super sensitive to anything I touched.
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posted on
04/21/2021 6:43:33 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
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To: rarestia
I had chickenpox as a kid back in the sixties. While it was miserable, I didn’t get nearly as sick as I did from the German Measles. I have a heart murmur to this day from the measles.
So the chickenpox vaccine came out around 1980?
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04/21/2021 6:46:38 AM PDT
by
phoneman08
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04/21/2021 6:48:08 AM PDT
by
metmom
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To: woodbutcher1963
Yes, I got my first shingles dose in late February, thinking it would be good to have the first, before I became eligible for the Covid vaccines. I luckily had no reaction (or, very minor) to either the shingles shot nor either of my Covid shots. Still have to get the 2nd shingles shot in the next few months.
A lady at my office had reactions to both of her shingles shots, missing work, out “sick”.
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04/21/2021 6:49:04 AM PDT
by
NEMDF
To: phoneman08
I don’t know about the vaccine. Having to react to some bullies in this thread, I came across a couple of articles that showed that starting in the 1980s, chicken pox became a common illness for youth, and apparently 99% of adults under the age of 40 have had it. That’s a pretty substantial number.
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04/21/2021 6:49:04 AM PDT
by
rarestia
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To: metmom; bagster; ransomnote
Ha! It’s not a ‘vax’ bug....it’s a FEATURE!
😜
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04/21/2021 7:02:50 AM PDT
by
Jane Long
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To: rarestia
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04/21/2021 7:04:17 AM PDT
by
phoneman08
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To: NEMDF
My issue with the first shingles shot was that I also received a flu shot and a tetanus shot at the same time. My doctor warned me that “you might not feel so well”. He was right.
A buddy told me that he was fine after the first shot, but the second one made him feel terrible. He cautioned me to get the second on a Friday so that I would have the weekend to recover.
To: Red Badger
I had shingles for a month, then I got Covid.
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04/21/2021 7:22:34 AM PDT
by
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04/21/2021 7:32:26 AM PDT
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SJackson
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To: Red Badger
Autoimmune issues continue to surface in reports of illnesses, side effects. In the thread below, the doctor noticed several patients had 'evolving' neurological problems (changing, not leaving or resolving).
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04/21/2021 7:33:30 AM PDT
by
ransomnote
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posted on
04/21/2021 7:38:44 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: rarestia
You aren’t getting Shingles from the shot...
The shot is triggering the existing virus, that you have in your body if you had Chicken Pox, to activate... Most likely by weakening the immune system in some way that allows the virus to exit dormant stage.
To: HighSierra5
That’s what they want you to do. They were having a great time locking down the world every few weeks, and then Trump’s efforts to develop a vaccine had to come along and succeed and ruin everything. So they’ve got to keep putting it down. These horror stories are infinitesimally unlikely except in one in a million cases, and they happen with every major pharmaceutical, with comes with a warning disclosure in fine print. F@#$ it. I took the vaccine already. I’m free in my mind and body.
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04/21/2021 7:41:18 AM PDT
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Eleutheria5
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