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The Ministry of Health announced the availability of the shingles vaccine, which is taken as two doses, between two and six months apart.
The vaccine is available in the Ministry’s primary care centers
She explained in a statement, today, that the vaccine, now available in the Ministry’s primary care centers, is one of the best prevention standards to help prevent or reduce the risk of shingles in adults, and reduce the incidence of complications in people with shingles.
How is the shingles virus transmitted?
She added that a person with shingles can transmit the virus to anyone who does not have immunity to chickenpox, and this usually occurs through transmission of the virus through the air or direct contact with open sores resulting from a herpes rash. Once the person in contact with the infection is infected, he will contract chickenpox.
They are far from getting sick
It is not a belt of fire, which may pose a great danger to some people, especially:
1 – A person who has never had chickenpox and has not received the chickenpox vaccine.
2 – People with weak immune system.
3- Pregnant women.
4- Newborn babies.
She stressed that a person with shingles remains contagious until the herpes blisters disappear, and he should avoid direct contact with anyone.
Signs and symptoms of shingles
The signs and symptoms of shingles usually appear on a small part of one side of the body only. Those signs and symptoms may include the following:
1 – Fever.
2- Headache.
3- Fatigue
4- Severe pain.
5- Numbness and tingling.
6- Feeling of burning.
7- Sensitivity to touch.
8- Sensitivity to light.
9 – A red rash that appears a few days after the start of the pain.
10 – blisters filled with fluid that break open and crust over, and itching.
Ring of Fire is a threat to life
Shingles rarely poses a threat to life, but often changes its pattern drastically, and shingles pain may cause disruption in daily life, work, and sometimes the quality of life in general.
The disease develops into complications that may be serious, such as chronic nerve pain, which occurs in about 30% of cases, and complications in the eye, which occur in about 25% of cases, which may lead to vision loss.
What is the “Ring of Fire” disease?
According to health experts, shingles is a viral infection caused by the reactivation of the chickenpox virus after a previous infection, as the virus remains latent in the nervous tissue near the spinal cord and brain after the person infected with the chickenpox virus has recovered for several years, until That the person is exposed to specific factors that lead to the activity of the virus again and it is transmitted through the nerve pathways to the skin.