Can shingles keep recurring?
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unfortunately, shingles always occur when your immune system is at a low time. This could be a time when you are sick or a very stressed out time.
Once a person has chicken pox, the virus that causes chicken pox remains in our bodies in a dormant way, and therefore you are immune to getting chicken pox again.
However, people who have this dormant virus are at risk of getting shingles any time our immune systems are down or stressed out.
How to prevent shingles? Keep your immune system healthy. You can do that by doing the following:
Take a multivitamin daily & eat a diet rich in nutrients that feed the immune system such as fruits, veggies, and grains. Eating fish like salmon and other fish high in omega 3 fatty acids also help boost the immune system.
Notice the I don't recommend a whole handfull of vitamins. Just one multivitamin is enough.........taking more than that in vitamins can sometimes cause more harm than good. Your body knows what to do with nutrients from foods and is sometimes confused when you try to feed it extreme amounts of vitamins of various kinds in concentrated amounts. One multivitamin is enough in addition to a diet high in fruits in veggies.
Next, get some exercise. If you work out at a gym, that's great......but you can also get exercise by taking a walk everyday in your neighborhood. Just get out and move.......walking is a great form of exercise and as little as a 30 minute comfortable pace walk everyday can do wonders for your immune system. If you work out more than that, that's just that much more stronger you'll be muscle-wise AND immune-wise.......but a 30 minute walk everyday is enough to help keep shingles away.
Next, try to reduce your stress level. Being stressed out all the time releases a chemical in your body called "cortisol" and there is nothing that zaps your immune system faster than cortisol. Try to find ways to reduce your stress by doing a relaxing activity, laughing more, sitting in a quiet room, meditation, prayer, etc.........do whatever works for you, but find a way to reduce stress.
Once you build your immune system back up, I doubt you will have trouble with shingles again. If your immune system is very low, it may take 12-14 weeks before you can build it back up but once you build it back up, you'll be amazed at how well you feel. Not only will you stop getting shingles, but you will also feel better and have more energy.
Good luck and be well!
yes they can reoccur over and over for the rest of your life. best to ask the dr what you need to do. it is very painful.
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