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Shingles Eating: DOs and DON'TS Guidance / Advice

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ray81408
ray81408

Hello Everybody

I am looking for real life experiences regarding what best foods to eat and to avoid when you have shingles.

I have read a great deal of internet content and all I can see is conflicting information.

I understand arginine is a vitamin that can aggravate and trigger the virus. So you would obviously

strive to avoid arginine which, from what I can see, is virtually impossible unless you are

prepared to live on exclusively apples, pears and pudding for the rest of your life.

I am also seeing directly competing advice about eggs, potatoes and food sources. One site tells

you to eat them for their vitamin B content and other tell you to leave them alone because of

their arginine content.

So you have no idea what to do for the best.

What do you all think? Did you change your diets at all when you had shingles.

If you did what did you eat that didn't leave you famished?

Thanks in advance.

Ray

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