The pharmaceutical industry, and many doctors, appear to be making great efforts by to get as many people as possible vaccinated against shingles.
Even if such an intervention was highly effective in preventing
shingles, which certainly has not been shown to be the case, the
information below should make it clear that such vaccinations are
unnecessary. The side effects that would be suffered by a significant
number of individuals need never occur in the first place. The real
problem is that what is discussed below generates relatively little
income for anybody in the healthcare industry. Regardless, you need to
decide for yourself.
Shingles is an
infection resulting from the varicella zoster virus, usually manifesting
in areas supplied by spinal nerves, known as dermatomes. More commonly
known in medical circles as Herpes zoster, the infection is typically
characterized by a blistering skin rash of extraordinary pain for most
individuals. The initial infection with the virus is usually remote from
the shingles outbreak, typically occurring in childhood when chickenpox
is contracted. For years the virus remains latent in nerve cell bodies
or autonomic ganglia. It is when the virus, for unclear reasons, breaks
out of these storage sites and travels down the nerve axons that
shingles occurs.
Left to itself along
with mainstream therapies that include analgesics, antiviral agents
like acyclovir, and corticosteroids, the rash will generally resolve in
two to four weeks. The pain is generally lessened little by analgesics.
Some unfortunate individuals can experience postherpetic neuralgia, a syndrome of residual nerve pain that can continue for months or years following a shingles outbreak.
Treatment of Shingles with Vitamin C
The clinical response of shingles to vitamin C
therapy is decidedly different from its response to traditional
therapies. While there are not many reports in the literature on vitamin
C and shingles, the studies that do exist are striking. Frederick
Klenner, MD, who pioneered the effective use of vitamin C in a wide
variety of infections and toxin exposures, published the results of his
vitamin C therapy on eight patients with shingles. He gave 2,000 to
3,000 mg of vitamin C by injection every 12 hours, supplemented by 1,000
mg in fruit juice by mouth every two hours. In seven of the eight
patients treated in this manner, complete pain relief was
reported within two hours of the first vitamin C injection. All patients
received a total of five to seven vitamin C injections. Having had
shingles myself years before I knew of the efficacy of vitamin C
therapy, I can assert that this is nothing short of a stunning result on
what is usually a painful and debilitating disease.
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