People with severe allergies shouldn't take Pfizer vaccine

allisolm

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According to CNN, there have been significant adverse reactions in the UK to the Pfizer vaccine by people who have allergies that require adrenaline autoinjectors.

"People with a "significant history of allergic reactions" should not be given the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, UK health authorities said Wednesday, after two healthcare workers had symptoms after receiving a shot the day before."

""Any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine, medicine or food (such as previous history of anaphylactoid reaction or those who have been advised to carry an adrenaline autoinjector) should not receive the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine," states the new MHRA advice, PA Media reported. It said that vaccines "should only be carried out in facilities where resuscitation measures are available."

Hopefully they can figure out why this happened and how to avoid it. It said people should realize that there are immediate treatments for allergic reaction. "That's why you're hanging out in the doctor's office," but in this country they are aiming to have these vaccines administered in drugstore pharmacies and I saw photos yesterday of multiple booths set up so lots of people could be vaccinated at once. Not sure these places were equipped to handle severe allergic reactions.

 
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nickqt

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Take some over-the-counter diphenhydramine and famotidine around the clock the first few days after getting the vaccine.