4. Shingles vaccine
Maybe you already had shingles or herpes zoster in the past, but this is one of the vaccines every senior should get, and you should talk to your healthcare provider about it. This is especially true if you are 50 or older.
Shingles is a viral disease that generates a painful and blistering rash. It hardly results in death, but it can cause major consequences such as post-herpetic neuropathic pain and a condition called herpes zoster ophthalmicus. Older people and those with weaker immune systems are more likely to be admitted to the hospital for shingles.
Hopefully, you will not give shingles to your grandkids. But if they never had chickenpox or never got vaccinated for it, there is a chance to give them chickenpox if you have an active shingles infection.
Both chickenpox and shingles are caused by the same virus, the varicella-zoster virus. After you have been infected with chickenpox, as most people before 1980 have been, the virus will remain in your body and will stay dormant. If it ever becomes active again, it will cause shingles.
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The so-called vaccines are hit and mostly miss! They are also dangerous for lots of people. Beware of the chances you take in having them administered!
I would like to recieve health advice, I’m a liver transplant recipient since 2004
A question for you is it just the tdap vaccine that needs to be updated every ten years? I get the flu vaccine & if if the Covid is updated I get that. I also received the RSV vaccine but do other vaccines need to be updated is my concern? Thank you in Advance!
I’m in my 75th year of life and I was exposed to and truly believed in early preventive vaccines but the COVID and the money hungry big pharma lost me with the rush to market crap they dished out. Now I’m very Leary. How much more studies have they conducted and how safe is the Covid vaccines are now?
You missed RSV
Very important
Thank you
Please stop promoting ‘vaccines’ as the 100% protection for the older population. Have you ever posted an article with the vaccine related injuries/deaths, or at the very least, the serious side effects? Please respond with the article in case I just can’t find it. Informed consent for all biologicals and drugs should be mandatory.
Thank you.