Although shingles is an infectious skin disease, the cause of this disease is due to infection with the varicella zoster virus.
Once the virus invades the body and is active in the body, it causes blisters to appear on the affected skin. The entire area innervated by the nerve will cause a sharp pain sensation.
And because this pain belongs to neuralgia, the pain can reach level 10, which is a kind of severe pain. In many patients, after the lesions disappear for a period of time, this neuralgia will continue to appear, which is very harmful to health.
Therefore, in daily life, everyone should do a good job of preventing shingles. But the virus is highly contagious, so for some people susceptible to shingles, it is best to get vaccinated early. So, which people are susceptible to shingles?
1. People over 50 years old
For the elderly over 50 years old, the body's various functions will gradually decline, especially digestion, metabolism and other aspects of the corresponding problems, and will affect the overall immunity.
Once immunity declines, it increases the probability of developing shingles. The cause of herpes is generally due to the experience of chickenpox in childhood, which keeps the virus lurking in the human body. If the body's immunity has always been strong, it can suppress the virus.
But if immunity drops, the virus is awakened, then active in the body, and infects a range of sensory nerves, causing the appearance of herpes.
2. People with underlying diseases
Regardless of age, if you have some chronic diseases for a long time, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, benign and malignant tumors, and some immune diseases, then such people should also be vaccinated early.
Due to long-term chronic diseases, it is easy to have endocrine system disorders, the ability to fight viruses will also decline, and the risk of contracting this virus and inducing shingles will also increase.
3. People with poor health status
Although many people believe that young people do not need to be vaccinated against shingles. However, if the health of young people is relatively poor, such as frequent colds, fevers, coughs, or various infectious diseases and allergic diseases, such people are sub-healthy, then the probability of contracting the shingles virus is also higher than others.
Therefore, for such people, you can go to the regular vaccination site for a series of consultations, and then receive the shingles vaccine, which can effectively reduce the incidence of shingles.
4. People with excessive fatigue
For people who have long experienced excessive fatigue, the shingles vaccine should also be vaccinated as soon as possible. Whether it is physical labor or mental labor, once the long-term excessive fatigue, the body's stress response ability will decrease.
Once infected with this virus, the body's immunity is relatively poor, which will cause the virus to be active in the body, thus inducing the appearance of herpes zoster.
5. People with bad living habits
If there are some bad living habits in the daily life for a long time, such as having to stay up late every day due to work reasons.
Or the amount of exercise per day is very small, will be in a sedentary state for a long time, and there will be bad eating habits. The immune function of this group is much lower than that of other groups, and the probability of contracting this virus will naturally increase.
All in all, once suffering from shingles, the nerves are also affected, resulting in severe pain when the patient has a series of skin lesion problems.
The cause of shingles is related to infection with the varicella zoster virus. The virus is contagious, so for the above 5 groups of people, you can go to a regular hospital for zoster virus vaccination.
In addition, we must do a good job in all aspects of life. Only by working hard to improve your immunity can you minimize the incidence of shingles and achieve the effect of maintaining your own health.