There’s an article on the associated press website (apnews.com) today entitled “Shingles is awful, but there may be another reason to get vaccinated. It may fight dementia”
One study found that having an episode of shingles infection could raise someone’s risk of developing dementia by 20 percent. Also the shingles infection can produce a protein called amyloid which is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s.
Very interesting to me especially while dealing with having a parent with some kind of dementia.
Shingles is not an infection in itself. It comes from the re-activation of something (plaques?) permanently left in the blood after Chicken Pox in earlier years. The study appeared to say that the shingles vaccine affected the plaques that dementia causes, as well as the shingles potential re-activation. Let’s hope it works out!
But, I have been debating getting the shingle shot, maybe this is a another reason to get it.
I mean, given all the studies indicating we will die off, most of us are living very long lives!
My husband had shingles, 15 years later developed alzheimers. His mom had the same dementia but never shingles.
Then a whole new argument, and group of people arguing over that
And one more controversy and something to complain to each other about.
As I said with Covid vaccine, many times over , it is a personal choice only you can make, and honestly it's getting where it should be a secret and not discussed. Same with this or anything vaccine.
But thanks for the info!
I am just so gosh darn tired of this vaccine controversy