Chicken pox (Varicella), that inconvenient, itchy condition that plagues many children (and adults, too) can turn into herpes zoster, aka shingles, in older age.
Now, it appears, those who develop this condition are more likely to die from a stroke or a heart attack within a week of the outbreak.
Caroline Minassian and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine conducted a Meta study of some 67,000 Medicare-aged victims of shingles.
"We observed a marked increase in the rate of acute cardiovascular
events in the first week after zoster diagnosis: a 2.4-fold increased
ischemic stroke rate and a 1.7-fold increased MI (heart attack) rate,"
they wrote in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine.
"The most marked increase was observed during the first week following zoster diagnosis."
What many people don't realize is that once in the body, any herpes virus never leaves...it simply moves around via the nervous system, waiting until the host's immune system becomes suppressed, either from another condition or simply from stress or poor diet.
I cannot stress enough the importance of keeping one's immune system healthy and strong. Diet alone will not do the trick. Anti-viral drugs will not do the trick as All of the people in this study were on those medications.
Anyone interested in learning how to maintain a healthy immune system?
Dr. Esther
drkollars@gmail.com
fixdhealthcare.com
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