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    Shingles Disease: The Complete Guide
    Shingles Disease: The Complete Guide
    Shingles Disease: The Complete Guide
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    Shingles Disease: The Complete Guide

    By Sally Pederson

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    Beginning with the history of the disease, this ebook traces a path through
    the pertinent elements of shingles disease including a detailed look at the immune response, symptoms, treatments,
    diagnosis, prognosis and epidemiology. This is a look at the development of the human response to shingles, which has
    been varied and ultimately followed a trajectory that intersects with modern scientific thought on vaccination and its
    consequences. Special care is paid to home and alternative treatments as well as a comprehensive look at what is
    upcoming in the future for shingles research and treatment development.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSally Pederson
    Release dateDec 5, 2013
    ISBN9781310843143
    Shingles Disease: The Complete Guide
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    Sally Pederson

    Sally is a highly skilled and versatile professional with a background in healthcare, education, and the hospitality industry. She has a passion for helping others and a dedication to making a positive impact in the world. As a Certified Life Coach and the founder of Global Citizen Life, a boutique consulting company that helps entrepreneurs and business owners legally reduce taxes, obtain citizenships and residencies, and protect assets while living in a country of their choice.Her expertise in health and safety is evident in her role as the Director of Operations and an Instructor at a Safety Training and Consulting company for 20 years where she helped organizations meet government rules and regulations by providing health and safety-related training, developing courses, and designing safety manuals, emergency response plans, and hazard assessments. She was also a certified instructor for First Aid, CPR, and AED, where she helped train people to handle emergency situations and wrote several books on various illnesses.As an award-winning freelance travel writer, she combined her love of exploring new places with her writing talent to create compelling stories.Staying healthy is very important with her busy schedule so when she is not working she can be found in a gym, outside running, or practicing yoga. In her spare time, she enjoys dinner and drinks with friends, reading, and is most likely making her next travel plans.Fueled by pasta and seafood, cheese and chocolate, wine and whiskey – the only requirements for survival – Sally has the true ‘Wanderlust Gene’.

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      simple, basic information about Shingles and its treatment and recovery covering all aspects in treatment.

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    Shingles Disease - Sally Pederson

    Shingles Disease

    Copyright © 2013 by Sally Pederson

    Published by Sally Pederson at Smashwords

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    Table of Contents

    Chapter 1 - Introduction

    Chapter 2 - Varicella Zoster Virus

    Chapter 3 - Immune System Response to Varicella Zoster Virus

    Chapter 4 - History of Shingles Disease

    Chapter 5 - Populations at Risk of Shingles Disease

    Chapter 6 - Symptoms of Shingles Disease

    Chapter 7 - Contagiousness of Shingles

    Chapter 8 - Special Case: Pregnancy and Shingles Disease

    Chapter 9 - Complications from Shingles

    Chapter 10 - Diagnosis of Shingles

    Chapter 11 - Treating Shingles

    Chapter 12 - Home and Alternative Treatments of Shingles Disease

    Chapter 13 - Vaccination for Shingles Disease

    Chapter 14 - Recurrence of Shingles

    Chapter 15 - Prognosis for Shingles Disease

    Chapter 16 - Epidemiology of Shingles Disease

    Chapter 17 - Prevention of Shingles

    Chapter 18 - On the Horizon for Shingles

    Chapter 19 - Conclusion

    Chapter 1 - Introduction

    Shingles disease, caused by the varicella zoster virus, is a debilitating, acute illness that affects at least 50% of individuals 60 years of age or older. While the varicella zoster virus has been present in human history for centuries, scientists and doctors often confused it with other types of rash-creating diseases such as small pox and leprosy. Caused by the same relatively common virus that causes chicken pox, shingles presents physically with a series of painful, swollen blisters usually on one side of the body. In addition, shingles affects the individual neurologically. Because of this dual mechanism of presentation, shingles can be both intensely painful and embarrassing.

    Historically, chicken pox was long viewed as a reasonably benign childhood disease that left, at most, some scars in its wake. After the chicken pox ebb, varicella zoster virus remains, lurking deep within the nerve cells in the body. While they lay dormant, the virus can reactivate quickly, resulting in a shingles outbreak. Shingles is a more painful disease that can sometimes result in sustained, painful sensations. The longer the lifespan of humans, the greater the chance that their varicella zoster virus infection will slip out of its dormancy and into disease.

    While older adults contract shingles at a much higher rate than do their young adult or adolescent counterparts, shingles can occur at any point in life. Shingles can affect people at all stages in their lives, and it can develop at any point after exposure to the varicella virus. With the advent of varicella vaccination, some controversy has erupted about the virus, the vaccine and its link to shingles outbreaks. Education about varicella zoster virus can be helpful in quick identification and treatment that may mitigate the symptoms of this inconvenient and painful disease.

    Chapter 2 - Varicella Zoster Virus

    Varicella zoster virus (VZV) causes shingles. VZV belongs to the same viral family as herpes simplex, but the two present and are transmitted in completely different manners. People who have shingles should be reassured that their infection is not like herpes at all.

    VZV is a double-stranded DNA virus, which means that upon introduction to the human body, the virus must journey into the host’s cell nuclei in order to begin manufacturing of more viruses. The cell that the virus chooses is extremely specific because it must match its viral body with receptors on the cell surface. VZV can infect many different body cells and as it reproduces, it exponentially increases in amount. Eventually VZV ends up in the nervous tissue, where the immune system cells are not permitted to go.

    Because it is a double-stranded DNA virus, VZV is relatively stable. As it replicates, it can undergo division easily and without much chance of mutation. This is extremely helpful for doctors and scientists as they struggle to prevent the disease through vaccination and medication because an ever-shifting virus is extremely difficult to treat.

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