Aloe Vera speeds up the treatment of shingles #aloevera #shingles #skincare #herpes ... Continue to: https://www.facebook.com/reel/2398206203975700/
#Shingles
@saarmuller In France you can now get the #vaccination against #shingles for free if you are above age 65. I’m still too young (!) but my husband had it last year.
In the #Netherlands the elderly do not count anymore. Above age 60 no protection against #shingles is offered https://nos.nl/l/2602120 . Even though it would be very cost effective considering the reduction in #dementia which is associated with this #vaccination.
Old poor people may just suffer (the rich can buy protection).
Is this still a civilized country?
@alice May I ask what the three #vaccines were?
I'm a pharmacist, and I've been a radical PRO-vaxer literally since childhood. Louis Pasteur was one of my childhood heroes. So when I got my first dose of #Shingrix a few years ago, and this brutal adjuvanted vaccine made my whole right arm turn red and warm from the injection site in the deltoid all the way down to my wrist, it didn't bother me in the least. Quite the contrary. I thought, "Good! This is exactly the red alert my immune system needs."
I knew that Shingrix was more effective than the old #Zostavax live vaccine against #shingles, which I had also gotten. Not long ago it had been thought impossible for a recombinant vaccine like Shingrix to be more effective than the best available live vaccine, but the rules are rapidly being rewritten by modern #adjuvant technology.
What I was NOT prepared for was the flood of good news about Shingrix from observational research — the exact opposite of #antivaxer paranoid fantasies. I'll be the first to admit that the picture isn't clear yet — science works by theory based on the accumulated totality of observational and experimental evidence, not by overconfident extrapolation from individual studies. But it’s looking as though Shingrix has astonishing benefits above and beyond its basic purpose of preventing shingles. And the benefits may even extend to other modern adjuvanted vaccines.
Vaccination against shingles was expected to provide some protection against #dementia, simply because herpes #zoster, the virus that causes shingles, is a known risk factor for dementia. But observational studies showed statistically that the reduction in new-onset dementia began right away — too quickly for it to be purely the result of suppression of shingles attacks, which are infrequent. And now evidence is starting to appear that suggests that Shingrix may have a general anti-aging effect through some kind of "tuning" of the immune system — as may at least some other adjuvanted vaccines.
How ironic. This is the kind of very general benefit that homeopaths and such tend to claim, dubiously, for their panaceas — and now it looks as though modern biomedical high technology has achieved it for real, without even trying.
Think about that as your immune system on red alert is making you, very temporarily, feel miserable.
@clew @gildilinie @AnnieBuddy @renata @benroyce @alice
I'm too old to have been vaccinated against #chickenpox as a child. By coincidence, I'm recovering from chickenpox right now. In adults, it's a horrible experience. Most of my torso is numb, I have bad abdominal and back pain, and I'm covered from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet in spots. Last night, I got less than three hours' sleep.
#Shingles would have been worse. I'll definitely pay for the shingles #vaccine as soon as I'm over this.
The NHS is giving free #MMR vaccines to anyone who didn't have them as a child (including me, because of my age). I had my two doses recently and I'm glad I did.
Could the shingles vaccine prevent or delay new-onset dementia? Ontario-based study suggests so
CTV News
January 27, 2026
By Miriam Katawazi
This page lists all the ingredients in a bunch of different vaccines for the “we don’t know what’s in them!” people.
Ingredients by Vaccine | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-safety/vaccine-ingredients/ingredients-by-vaccine
#vaccines #covid #shingles #mmr #pnemonia #polio #rsv #flu #influenza
#FYI #USA #MicrobeTV #ThisWeekInVirology #DanielGriffin #VincentRacaniello #MASA #MakeAmericaSaneAgain #infectiousdiseases #vaccinate #vaccines
#TWIV 1290 clinical update week 24. Jan 2026
Dr. Griffin's bowtie of today: Bedbugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKJ7FBwBCAA
#screwworm #shingles #HPV #avianflu #birdflu #measles #flu #influenza #influenzaA #RSV #covid19 #covid #sarscov2 #LongCovid
This week's Pandemics in BC blog posts:
General: https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2026/01/23/2026-01-23-general/
BC: https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2026/01/23/2026-01-23-bc/
#covid19bc #covid #covid19 #mpox #shingles #influenza #measles
In a study with more than 3800 participants in the USA, gerontologists found that old people with a shingles vaccination typically show a lower biological age than those who were unvaccinated. See http://www.neat-news.com/3513.php. #vaccination #shingles #biological_age
Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging, Study Finds
Mmmmm! What are these old anti-vax billionaires going to do now.
https://www.sciencealert.com/shingles-vaccine-linked-to-slower-biological-aging-study-finds
#ScienceAlert #OldpeopleOfMastodon #Shingles #ChickenPox #VaricellaZosterVirus #Health
#Shingles #vaccine may slow biological aging in older adults | CIDRAP
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/adult-non-flu-vaccines/shingles-vaccine-may-slow-biological-aging-older-adults
Québec :flagqc: expands free shingles vaccine to adults aged 71 to 74
https://montreal.citynews.ca/2026/01/19/quebec-free-shingles-vaccine/
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Le Québec :flagqc: étend les vaccins gratuits contre le zona aux adultes âgés de 71 à 74 ans
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I've struggled with #dysautonomia since having the #shingles vaccine in September 2024. I finally got myself a smart watch. I'm finding it useful, though there are some things that could be improved. Anyway, here's my heart rate over the last 10 days. This is not exercising, this is just...life.
Okay, I am a lot more alive today.
If you get the two part Shingles vaccine, make sure you take the next day off, after the second shot. I jinxed myself by saying "Oh, this isn't too bad." For me, the side effects were mild at first: mostly fatigue. It was the next day that it hit, hard. Are you usually aware of all of your bones? Because you will be acutely aware of all of them after the second shot.
Today, the pain is pretty much gone. I just feel rubbery, the opposite of yesterday where I felt like I was made of heavy lumber and somehow had tried to swim the English channel without drowning.
It's still worth it. Shingles is more painful than the side effects of the shot. (If you ever suspect Shingles, you want to get your doc to Rx Valtrex and Neurontin ASAP, before it gets worse.) I've had Shingles twice. It will make you cry.
We don't know exactly how much protection vs. Alzheimer's that Shingrix imparts, but potentially 40%. Why? Because viruses are key and always have been. They are known triggers of many conditions, especially autoimmune, but others, too.
So, get the shots, if you can.
#Drugmakers plan 2 raise #US #prices on at least 350 branded #medications including vaccines against #COVID, #RSV and #shingles & blockbuster #cancer treatment #Ibrance even as #Trump administration pressures them for cuts, according to data provided exclusively by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors.. The number of price increases for 2026 is up from same point last year, when drugmakers unveiled plans for raises on more than 250 drugs. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/drugmakers-raise-us-prices-350-medicines-despite-pressure-trump-2025-12-31/ #healthcare #pharmaceuticals
That second #shingles shot is hitting me today.
@noodlemaz @Kpasa @overholt @geolaw
I was luckier with my shingles case but couldn't wear trousers for weeks. Had planned on getting vaccinated but in my country the shingles vaccine is recommended from age 60 and authorized from age 50, so I thought, well I'll get it when I get to that age...
An April 2025 study published in the prominent journal Nature found tantalizing evidence that the herpes zoster – or #shingles – #vaccine
👍could lower the risk of #dementia in the general population by as much as 20%❗️
A role for vaccines in reducing dementia risk?
One of the major challenges researchers face when trying to study the effects of vaccines is finding an unvaccinated “control group” for comparison
– a group that is similar to the vaccine group in all respects, save for the fact that they haven’t received the active vaccine.
That’s because it’s unethical to assign some patients to the control group and deprive them of vaccine protection against a disease such as shingles.
The Nature study took advantage of a policy change in Wales that went into effect in 2013,
stating that people born on or after September 2, 1933, were eligible for the herpes zoster vaccination for at least a year -- while those born before that cutoff date were not.
The vaccine was administered to prevent shingles,
a painful condition caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox,
which can lie dormant in the body and be reactivated later in life.
The researchers used the policy change as a natural laboratory of sorts to study the effect of shingles vaccination on long-term health outcomes.
🔥 In a statistically sophisticated analysis of health records,
the team found that the vaccine reduced the probability of getting dementia by one-fifth over a seven-year period.
✅ This means that people who received the shingles vaccine were less likely to develop clinical dementia over the seven-year follow-up period,
and women benefited more than men.
⭐️The study design allowed researchers to compare two groups without actively depriving any one group of access to vaccination.
The two groups were also of comparable age and had similar medical comorbidities
– meaning similar rates of other medical conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure.
⚠️ Results from this and other related studies raise the possibility that vaccines may have a broader role in experimental therapeutics outside the realm of infectious diseases.
These studies also raise provocative questions about how vaccines work and how our immune system can potentially prevent dementia.
https://theconversation.com/vaccines-hold-tantalizing-promise-in-the-fight-against-dementia-257807
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