Taking Chemo With Shingles

A shingles vaccine approved for u s.

Taking chemo with shingles.

Cleveland clinic is a non profit academic medical center. Shingles is a very common disease in older adults and occurs when the varicella zoster virus which causes chickenpox is reactivated. The sooner that you get on valtrex the less likely you are to experience postherpetic neuralgia. I had shingles right before i was diagnosed in 2009.

My onc said he had seen a few cases of shingles on chemo its because your immune system has dropped thus triggering off the virus which we have lying dormant in our body after having chicken poxs. As a result patients with cancer who receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy or patients with leukemia or lymphoma affecting the bone marrow or lymphatics could not receive the shingles. There are many stressors that can cause a shingles outbreak including chemo stress cancer broken bones etc. Liu and her colleagues hoped to better understand which cancer types make a patient more vulnerable to shingles and whether the risk comes more from chemotherapy related immune suppression or the cancer itself.

Use in 2017 does not use a live form of the virus and may be safe for people with weakened immune systems including those receiving chemotherapy the. Shingrix vaccine for compromised immune systems if you re an adult over age 50 receiving chemotherapy for cancer you can now take steps to cut your risk for shingles a painful infection caused by the same virus as the chicken pox.