An increase in the number of Israeli young people with shingles

Only in recent days did the star Adi Himmelbloi unveiled because she had been silent. “I had to cancel all the days of photography and shows I had in these week and a half. It also bursts inside,” she wrote in an Instagram post.The viral disease usually impairs the third -year -olds and the vaccine is given from the age of 65. Also causes chickenpox, ”explains Dr. Muhammad Sachi, Skin and Sex Specialist in Maccabi Health Services Northern District. ”

No longer a disease of adults

But it turns out that, like Hammellaboy, the disease is also common in young people who are not eligible for vaccination. The National Cooperation indicates a disturbing trend-according to data collected by Dr. Ariel Israel, Family Medicine and Director of National Health Services Research Institute, about 67% of patients in the past decade were under 65 (17,769 of 26,540).

 

Prof. Amnon Lahav, head of the Clalit Community Medicine in Jerusalem District of Clalit, also indicates a certain increase in people under 65 who suffer from the disease: “In the past, we thought behind morbidity among young people hides further morbidity, but studies have shown that this is not the case. Seal may appear at any age. Although most of the hard morbidity is focused on older people, we see a slight increase among people under 65 who have been suffering in recent years. It may have a connection to the security, economic situation, dealing with the cost of living and every stress factor in our lives. ”

 

 

 

Although the causes of immigration are still completely unclear, doctors have some hypotheses: “I suppose it has to do with the fact that more young people deal with obesity and its consequences – more diabetes, more chronic, rheumatic and malignant diseases. These diseases weaken the immune system, so patients are at increased risk of shingles, ” Says Dr. Israel. Another hypothesis is the great rabbi in Israel lately – another factor that may be a trigger for the onset of the disease. ”

And although in general, the expansive population vaccines have been shown to be secure, it turns out that the vaccine given against Corona or the chickenpox may have an impact on the matter: “According to certain explanations, there is a connection between Korona vaccine and the appearance of a shingles and may be the vaccine affecting the chance of getting sick of it,” Dr. Sacha points out. “Since most children are vaccinated today, they are less ill in the disease and so adults are less exposed to the virus. In the past, when there were no vaccines available, such exposure has helped to some extent strengthened the immune memory against the virus,” Dr. Israel adds.

Today, the existing virus vaccine is available only to people aged 65 and over, or partially funded to sufferers who suppress the immune system. People who are not included in these populations may be vaccinated, but the price of the vaccine that has been done privately, and stands at about a thousand shekels. “In my opinion, there is room to consider young people from the age of 65 to be vaccinated in the basket.

Today, the results of the drug basket discussions will be published, and it is still unclear whether the vaccine will also subsidize for young people under 65.

“Incredible I could save it all if I was vaccinated”

Hani (55) from the central area, began to feel itchy in the waist area. “I didn’t understand what it was, but I told myself it would probably pass,” she says in a conversation with Mako health.

The next morning, she went out as usual to her work, but the itchy sense of harassment continued to bother her. “I returned home in the evening, and then and I saw that it also burst in the thigh. Since I was working in the health system, I know the field of disease a bit, so I suspected it was a shingle and I started looking for information about it. Tends to agree with me.

That day Hani began taking the balls, but then she began to suffer from severe pain. “I began to feel crazy pain in the blessing area. “It hurts and pressed, especially at night. But I thought to be vaccinated and I rejected it and now I’m sorry. ”

 

 

 

Hani is a haircut that has recently experienced a number of deaths in the family alongside an intense and tense period of work, and all this has affected its health. “It is said that stress affects the outbreak of the disease and I am probably an example of that,” she says.

“I haven’t left home for almost a year”

Sima (52) also became ill in the shingles about three years ago. To this day, she has trouble forgetting the pain. “It hurt me in the scalp, my eyes, I needed severe pain balls,” she shares. “I really needed a 24 -hour help, so I brought me a therapist. I went through a lot of tests, treatments, pain clinics visits and stopped any activity. Until I became very active and sporty but everything changed.” She says that now, over three years, she feels better, but the symptoms are still accompanying her.