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.
Obviously, sinning waaay too much! :-)
She got around...
There are people who have committed suicide over shingles pain.
What am I going to believe, my doctor or your links?
Shingles was 6/10 on the pain scale. Postherpetic neuralgia was 15/10. It’s still 3/10 on bad days, 6 years later. Don’t know what I would have done if my neurologist hadn’t found the right meds to tamp down the pain.
never trust a government that opens its border and distributes thousands of disease carrying invaders across its country during a so called global pandemic...
I don’t think the chickenpox vaccine came out until around 1993. My first child born in 1991 got the chicken pox and all were still getting it. My next 2 had the vaccine. One born in 1993 and the other in 1996.
Agree I got the Shingrix vaccine a couple years ago.
The first dose put me in bed for 3 days.
10 times more side effect compared to Moderna Covid vax.
After over a year of not wearing a mask, now I want a good virologist moon suit to wear around the vaxxed shedders.
😂😂🤣
Love it. Me, too.
The WuFluCoup didn’t scare me.
The “vaccine” terrifies me.
They have new ads running that say “If the vaccine isn’t EVERYWHERE the virus is not going ANYWHERE”
That is ominous AF.
I know....these horrid PSAs are EVERYWHERE.
I saw one on the tollway, yesterday.
Unreal.
OUR tax dollars at work, for these vax goons.....AGAIN.
I can’t find the posted photos of people, who got the Moderna shot and ended up with what at first appeared to be a rash and later was identified as Shingles/Herpes Zoster on their upper arm. Maybe someone could find them and re post them and ping me.
Their arms looked like my arm did after my first Pfizer shot. No real pain just a hellacious itch. My wife put steroid cream over the red areas for about 2.5 days, and the redness and itch went away.
If it was Shingles, the worst shot of my life, 2+ years ago, was my second Shingles shot.). It might have been activated as the stuff disappeared quickly from my arm/shoulder.
Need to get the new shingles vaccine so I can get off of the meds.
Don’t plan to do much after the second shot. I felt like my shoulder had been used for batting practice. I had a fever and felt like I had been run over by a truck. The RN giving the shot had warned my wife and I not to take the second shot at the same time. It was a good warning, and we are glad that we listened.
My kids had chicken pox when I was in my late 30’s
My oldest had it at 10 1/2 months and the dr was concerned about immunity.
The other two got them two weeks apart at 3 and 10 1/2 months (again).
I made sure they shared with their older sister. I figured if she indeed not immune, better she get it as a child than not. She never showed any symptoms, so either she had an exceedingly mild case that I missed, or she was immune after all.
We did nothing to try to prevent the spread of it. I wonder if my exposure to them at both those times didn’t work as a booster of sorts for me.
I’m glad you heeded the warning. You may had had to bring in the grandkids for help. But then maybe that would have been nice too.
No way would I have wanted the grand kids around with my reaction to my second shingles shot.
‘Doctors discover’ after running human experiments on YOU.
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