My husband got the shingles vaccine two weeks ago?
And over the weekend, he got what I am almost sure is a case of the shingles.
Two questions - we will call the doctor when they open this morning, but is there any home remedy that will help in the meantime?
And is it possible that the vaccine caused the outbreak? He has never had shingles before now.
2010-06-29T06:08:57Z
We saw the doctor yesterday and he does have shingles and the vaccine did cause it, according to the doctor. She said it's not likely to happen, but this time it did. Now we know.
?2010-07-01T11:54:13Z
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The only way to tell what caused the shingles would be to isolate the virus from the site and see if it was the vaccine strain of the virus or the wild strain (the strain circulating in the community or dormant in the body). This is typically not done in clinical practice but was done in the clinical studies of the vaccine before it was licensed. You may be interested to know that in the studies, a few people in the vaccine group and in the placebo group developed shingles shortly after the injection. There were actually a few more shingles rashes in the placebo group. The vaccine virus was not detected in any of these people, so the vaccine virus did not cause the shingles in those cases. It really doesn't make sense that it would as shingles does not transmit from person to person, it is a reactivation of the virus from a previous infection.
In one study there were a few (2) people who developed a chickenpox-type rash that did have the vaccine virus isolated, suggesting that the vaccine strain was the source. So it is possible, though rare, to contract chickenpox from the vaccine.
While it seems you've gotten the answer you were looking for in regards to the vaccine's ability to cause the disease, I'd like to also address the home remedy aspect.
I am aware of one product your husband might be interested in. I am a freelance writer and product researcher who has been doing projects for a natural remedies company called Nature's Rite all year, and they recently released a product called Shingles Relief. From what the rest of the office staff tells me, it's one of our hottest selling items right now because shingles is such a painful condition.
According to the research I have done over the past several weeks, this product contains a healing combination of herbs that addresses the outbreak of the herpes zoster virus (the virus that causes chickenpox, and later on in life, shingles), relieves the painful and itchy symptoms of shingles, and also helps bring restorative healing to the skin.
One of the reasons I have stuck with this company is that they back up what they say. The few times I have heard about a customer being unsatisfied with a product (and I mean very few), they have always given back a complete refund, minus the shipping and handling charges. I sincerely hope that your husband finds the relief that hundreds of others have found with this product.
There is no home remedy and there is no way for the vaccine to cause a shingles outbreak. It would be possible for the vaccine to cause chicken pox though. It contains a live attenuated virus.