![]() Past research has established that immune-suppressing medications like chemotherapy and corticosteroids as well as health conditions that attack your immune system like Crohn’s disease, HIV, and lupus increase your risk for a shingles outbreak. What we do know is that when your immune system is compromised or distracted fighting off another virus, it tends to give the herpes zoster virus a chance to reactivate. Researchers are still working to understand COVID-19’s short- and long-term effects on the body. While COVID-19 symptoms can be flu-like, the coronavirus that causes it is much different than the virus that causes the annual flu. Some people who have contracted SARS-COV-2 may not present any symptoms at all (asymptomatic), while others may experience severe symptoms and require hospitalization. It’s primarily transmitted through the air when people who have contracted the coronavirus breathe out respiratory particles that contain viral material.ĬOVID-19 has a wide range of symptoms. SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)ĬOVID-19 is a highly transmissible respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. In fact, people who are at a higher risk for shingles are also at a higher risk for severe symptoms of COVID-19. People over age 60 years old or who have a compromised immune system are at a higher risk for reactivation of herpes zoster and developing symptoms of shingles. Most people only get shingles once in their lifetime, but the virus can be reactivated multiple times. Even after the rash fades, you may notice pain in the area where the rash appeared. ![]() Symptoms of shingles will typically include a rash on your trunk or your buttocks. Years after your first encounter with chickenpox, the virus can be reactivated in the form of shingles. Whether you have acquired varicella or been vaccinated against it, the virus lies dormant in certain nerve cells after your exposure. You can also be vaccinated against the virus. Many people contract this virus during childhood. Herpes zoster is a virus that first takes the form of chickenpox. To better understand the relationship between the two, let’s look at some details about the herpes zoster virus and SARS-CoV-2, responsible for shingles and COVID-19, respectively, as well as what the research currently suggests about the link between the two conditions. ![]() There’s currently no evidence to clear up the question of whether having COVID-19 or getting vaccinated against the coronavirus that causes it increases your risk for developing shingles in any statistically significant way.īut it seems clear that neither the virus nor the vaccines can cause a shingles outbreak since shingles is caused by a different virus entirely. ![]()
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