Globo reporter warns public about illness after receiving diagnosis: ‘Intense pain’

Summary
Globo reporter Tiago Scheuer, 40, used social media to warn the public about Herpes Zoster, the chickenpox virus, which mainly affects people over 50, and that in Brazil there was a 31% increase in hospitalizations due to the disease between 2021 and 2023.

The Globo reporter, Tiago Scheuer, 40 years old, used social media to warn the public about Herpes Zoster, the same virus as chickenpox. According to him, he suffered from intense pain in March this year and is now fine, but he wanted to warn about it.

“I had it last March and I confess to you that I felt a lot of pain. Today the newspaper The globein fact, published a study, carried out in Brazil, saying that there was a 31% increase in the number of hospitalizations due to this disease comparing 2021 with 2023. So it’s no joke”, he began.

The publication was made this Wednesday, 1st, on his Instagram profile. Tiago says that he noticed some spots and decided to see a doctor to check what was happening and there he received the diagnosis.

“How did I find out? It started with a little red spot on my belly and that little spot grew day after day. Then it occupied part of the side of the body and back. Not understanding anything, three days later, I went to a dermatologist. She diagnosed me with shingles and already gave me antivirals to take,” she says.

Still according to him, three weeks later the pain stopped completely and he assured: “I’m fine”, but the scare was alarming. “In my case, I didn’t need to be hospitalized, thank goodness! But the pain was intense. They oscillated with a sensation of shock, needles, burning, burning, punch,” he said.

“Herpes zoster is caused by the same virus as chickenpox. If you had chickenpox in childhood, the virus doesn’t go away, it stays dormant in our body and can return in adulthood taking advantage of an episode of low immunity, which was the in my case, or stress or even depression. Normally, this disease affects people over fifty. I’m 40 and there are people younger than me who also suffer from it”, explains Tiago.

Source: Redação Terra