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Can chickenpox vaccine cause shingles?
Chickenpox vaccine does not cause shingles directly, but the virus, like naturally-caught virus, stays in the spinal cord and may be reactivated later to cause herpes. The chances are lower with chickenpox vaccine than with chickenpox disease.
Is there penicillin in shingles vaccine?
No, there is no penicillin in the shingles vaccine. The shingles vaccine, such as Shingrix, contains a recombinant form of the varicella-zoster virus and adjuvants to enhance the immune response. It is important to check with a healthcare provider if you have concerns about allergies or specific components in vaccines.
Will vaccination guarantee that I won't get shingles?
Shingles is a contagious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which also causes chickenpox. Symptoms include a . Prevention and Shingles Vaccine.
Can being exposed to shingles re activate the virus in YOU?
No, being exposed to shingles itself does not reactivate the varicella-zoster virus (the virus that causes shingles) in someone who has never had chickenpox or received the chickenpox vaccine. However, if you have previously had chickenpox, the virus remains dormant in your body and can be reactivated later in life, leading to shingles. The risk of developing shingles increases with age and certain health conditions.
What does immune to VZV mean?
Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) (also known as chickenpox, zoster, human herpes type three varicella) is responsible for chickenpox and shingles in humans. An individual who is immune to the VZV may catch the virus; however, the body will battle and kill the virus before any notable effects occur. There is a vaccine that provides limited immunity (~10 years) to the virus (for those not already immune); however, the vaccine will not protect against shingles (a stronger vaccine in more limited supply is available for shingles).
Can you take shingles vaccine after getting steroid injection?
I checked with my pharmacist and the answer is NO. I need to stop taking valtrex for 30 days and then get the shot. Valtrex kills the virus and since the vaccine has some live virus in it, the valtrex could compromise the point of getting the vaccine. That said, an incident or 2 of herpes is tolerable to the possibility of getting shingles. Shingles has a higher pain and inconvenience factor than a herpes break out. That is my humble opinion.
What is the drug used in the shingle shot?
The shingles vaccine, commonly referred to as the shingles shot, primarily uses a live attenuated virus called Zoster Vaccine Live (Zostavax) or a recombinant zoster vaccine known as Shingrix. Shingrix is the preferred vaccine due to its higher efficacy and longer-lasting protection. It is recommended for adults over the age of 50 to help prevent herpes zoster (shingles) and its complications.
How can you get the zoster virus?
The zoster virus, also known as the varicella-zoster virus, typically causes chickenpox during initial infection. After recovery, the virus remains dormant in the body's nerve tissues and can reactivate later in life, leading to shingles (herpes zoster). You cannot catch shingles from someone with shingles, but you can contract chickenpox from someone with shingles if you haven't had chickenpox or the vaccine. The virus spreads through direct contact with the fluid from shingles blisters or through respiratory droplets from an infected person.
Can you catch shingles from a shingles vaccination?
Shingles are caused by the chicken pox virus. If you had chicken pox as a child, you have the potential to have shingles later in life. The virus stays latent deep in nervous system tissue and then activates and produces the pain and skin eruptions known as shingles. We are not sure what causes the virus to go active again after decades but there is likely some initiating trigger. The flu shot would not cause shingles, however, each individual's response to drugs and medications can be different. Ask your doctor if, in your case, the immune response to the flu shot could have caused your outbreak of shingles. It is doubtful, but potentially not impossible. If that were the initiating event, it would not be that you "caught" shingles from the vaccine, it would be that the immune response to the vaccine might have triggered the chicken pox virus to reactivate and create shingles.
Can you get shingles from someone if you already had chickenpox?
First, you can't "catch shingles" from someone. You can get chickenpox from someone who has shingles, but only if two things are true:You have direct contact with the weeping shingles lesions; ANDYou have not had chickenpox or chickenpox vaccine in the past.You can't get chickenpox from someone with shingles if you are immune. You can't get it from being in the same room with them, either. A person with shingles can go about normal activities, including all work or school, as long as the lesions are covered.
Is there a vaccination for shingles?
This is a very good question. Looks simple, but very difficult to answer. There is a vaccine available for shingles. You should take it, if you can afford the same, when you are older than forty years. You are already have virus in your posterior root ganglion. You are already immune to this virus. The vaccine gives you higher immunity. Shingles attack you only when your immunity is lowered down, probably. So this vaccine is not very effective. Also that, you do not know, which individual is going to be benefited by the vaccine. When you start the acyclovir and corticosteroids, early in shingles, the severity of the postherpatic neuralgia becomes very less. Again that can be managed by drug like carbamazepine, rather effectively. You can not recommend this vaccine for masses in developing countries, where children are dieing for lack of oral dehydration solution, which is quite inexpensive.
How does the shingle vaccine work?
If you had chickenpox as a child, that virus hides or is dormant in the nervous system. As you get older, your immune system doesn't keep it hidden and it will escape. Something the doctors say is reactivation. The shingles vaccine works by kick-starting the immune system and reminds it that that virus is still there.
