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.
If I keep reading all these horror stories I’m gonna stay home and nail the doors shut.
Shingles is devastating for adults who weren’t exposed to chicken pox as a child. It means certain death. Shingles for those of us who were exposed is still no walk in the park.
Maybe that’s what they want us to do!................
Rare SO FAR.
Who knows what the next six months or six years will bring.
Don’t forget the bubblewrap! I’ve been hoarding it just for these times.
That is why I actually took the two dose shingles vaccine in December and March. The first dose made me feel not so great the next day. The second dose I purposely took on a Friday afternoon. I felt absolutely horrible the next day. I hardly left the house. It hurt to move.
I don’t usually get any flu shots and will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to get a covid shot.
The rare exception for me is the shingles vaccine. I got the vaccine and the booster.
My aversion to the vaccine bandwagon goes back to the 90’s when I ran right out to get the Lymerix vaccine. I was living in the woods in CT - and was finding ticks on my dogs and myself almost daily. Within a couple years - Lymerix got pulled because it was allegedly giving people Lyme disease. I don’t think I’ve been affected negatively, and there are the usual counter arguments in support of Lymerix. Ya never know.
Really? Certain death, huh? You watch CNN, don't you? Admit it. You're a secret CNN watcher.
The phrase in that article that caught my eye was “autoimmune”. Are these injections triggering that response in certain individuals?
Not just these new vaxxes, but others have done it in the past as well............
This is at least a virus almost everyone carries already. Taking the COVID-19 shot weakens your immune system at least for a while, it appears.
“The researchers added that a larger study would need to be conducted in order to garner better results.”
Well, there are plenty to choose from who already got the vaccine.
For adults who never had chickenpox, the disease can be a killer but a vaccine can help
What is the mortality rate for herpes zoster (shingles)?
5%-15% mortality rate is MUCH higher than the 0.4% death rate from COVID. Pound sand.
My brother’s FIL contracted shingles, the developed pneumonia and died a painful death with no family by his side. He took the Jab days before.
This happened to a guy I work with.
I don't target anybody. 5%-15% (if this is accurate) is NOT CERTAIN death. Hyperbole, much?
Get bent. You are apparently perfect and incapable of making mistakes. It’s a pleasure to know you, Jesus. Where would you like your shrine constructed?
Shingles is devastating for adults who weren’t exposed to chicken pox as a child. It means certain death. Shingles for those of us who were exposed is still no walk in the park.
The shingles vaccine is one that I've not gotten yet. Guess I'll have to wait a while after the 2nd COVID jab this Friday.
I wonder if the kids nowadays that are vaccinated against chickenpox can get shingles later in life?
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