This kind of disease is called "undead cancer" ... It is expected to get domestic vaccines at the end of the year

Who hasn't hurt in this life? But there is a kind of pain comparable to the baby! Men and women can experience! That is shingles, also known as "undead cancer". Such torture always prefers middle -aged and elderly people. It may be one day, one week, one month, one year, and even for the rest of their lives.

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Headache is cracked, and erythema appears on the face

The eighty mother -in -law was diagnosed with shingles

Recently, an 80 -year -old mother -in -law kept talking about headaches and could not find the reason and wanted to hit her head. After seeing neurology, I did CT ... I couldn't find abnormalities. I was worried that it was infected with antibiotics, and the symptoms were not alleviated. Seeing that the elderly people were so disturbed, they turned around, and the people watching could not bear it.

With the mother -in -law's face and blisters appeared on the face of her mother -in -law. After examination, Huaxi dermatologist confirmed that she was zoster, and dangerous was the virus eroded head and facial trigeminal nerve.

The trigeminal nerves are the main sensory nerves of the oral and facial sensor and the body sensor of the chewing muscle. Once the virus hurts the trigeminal nerve, it is likely to cause keratitis, or even blindness, affecting the facial nerves and listening nerves, which may cause deafness. The headache that her mother -in -law couldn't stand it was also because of the "postpartum pain" brought by the virus erosion of the trigeminal nerve.

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For young people, pain is unbearable, let alone the elderly have many basic diseases, such as hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, lumbar spine problems, etc. In view of these factors, hospitals are hospitalized.

According to the dermatologist "Zhuang Kevin" at the Huaxi Hospital of Sichuan University: At present, antiviral medicines are prescribed for her mother -in -law. The erythema and blisters on the face have improved, but the pain is still there. I don't know how long it will hurt.

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Doctor reminds: the older the age, the more painful! Vaccine once and for all

Dr. Zhuang Kaiwen said that he had a lot of patients with shingles in clinical clinical clinical. What should we know about this disease earlier? Dr. Zhuang Kaiwen answered.

Q Why do we infected with shingles virus?

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Sons and chickenpox are caused by the same virus infection- "chickenpox-shingles virus". Therefore, the onset of shingles needs to be met at 2 points. The first prerequisite is: there are viruses in the body. As long as the infection, even a person who does not have chickenpox may hidden the virus in the nerve nodes of the foil of the spinal cord.

The second condition is: the immune function decreases. Once the resistance decreases, the hidden virus will be activated and growing, and running out will cause shingles.

Q Who is high -risk people?

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The onset of shingles is related to the age of a person. The older the age, the worse the resistance, and the higher the incidence. Especially the following three types of people should pay attention to the prevention:

1. Patients who are older than 50 years old. Because older patients have low immunity, the more difficult the virus damage to the nerves is repaired.

2. People with damage to immune function. For example, patients with tumors suffer from lupus erythematosus and people with a large number of hormones and immunosuppressive drugs.

3. People who are stressful, stressful, long -term staying up late, and excessive fatigue.

Q can it prevent this disease?

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For shingles, prevention> treatment. So the first recommended inoculation of shingles vaccine. At present, shingles vaccine is suitable for adults aged 50 and above, but if the physique is relatively poor, people who are prone to colds I think they can also be vaccinated at the age of 20 to 30.

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One thousand dollars in one stitch? Pain!

Domestic vaccine is coming

Because old people who are more susceptible to shingles are growing

Cases of shingles of people 50 and above in China

2.5 million in 2015

3.9 million cases in 2021

It is expected to increase to 4.9 million cases in 2025

Think about my parents for half a lifetime. I have suffered any pain, but it is difficult to feel this kind of heart pain ... Xiaokang girl can't wait to bring my parents to vaccine immediately!

However, as of now, there is only one foreign brand in my country with shingles vaccine in China. At present, two doses of shingles vaccine of foreign brands need to be vaccinated. The price of a single needle is about 1,600 yuan.

The good news is that the domestic vaccine is coming ~

According to the "Finance and Economics Weekly" report, a domestic -developed shingles vaccine developed in April this year and obtained the acceptance of the Pharmaceutical Review Center of the State Drug Administration, and was included in the priority review process. In accordance with the relevant requirements of the State Drug Administration, the review time limit for priority review and approval procedures is 130 working days.

This means that the first domestic shingles vaccine is expected to be available at the end of this year. The price of domestic brand vaccines is expected to be more close to the people, and the vaccine of 1 person is expected to be between 600 and 1,000 yuan. However, there are also research reports that the price of one person may be around 1800.

If you have experienced extraordinary pain, please send out everyone to see the world. Finally, I wish you all no need to experience any pain in this article.

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Information source: Finance and Economics Weekly

Preparation | Huang Liqin

Review | Lan Lan

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