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If you’re still before taking your first or second dose of COVID-19, you’re probably wondering what symptoms to expect from it. You may feel side effects a moment after getting the vaccine – for example, a tenderness at the point where the needle is inserted. Others may appear within hours – chills or fever.
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- The vaccine is an opportunity to fight the pandemic and provides immunity to the virus, but it may be associated with vaccination reactions
- It is worth knowing them before vaccination in order to stay calm and react properly if they occur
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When do the first vaccine reactions appear?
Vaccination adverse events are any health problems associated with and occurring with the vaccine four weeks afterwards. Most of them, the doctors explain, are within the body’s standard response to vaccination and are not cause for concern. However, it is worth knowing how to react to reduce the symptoms.
Immediately after vaccination, shoulder pain at the injection site may be felt. This is because it is injected into a muscle and the immune system recognizes it as a threat and reacts with inflammation. That’s when the arm turns red and swollen. Sometimes there is also a specific swelling, called by some doctors the “covid arm”.
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To reduce the discomfort associated with pain in the arm, you can place a towel soaked in cold water on it and apply it to the pain site. The towel can be replaced with ice packs. Moving your arm should also help.
Anaphylactic shock, a severe allergic reaction in the body that requires urgent medical attention, may occur 15-30 minutes after vaccination. Such a reaction to the vaccine appears very rarely, but it is worth waiting an additional 15 minutes after taking the preparation at the vaccination site. Thanks to this, if an allergic reaction occurs, we will receive professional help.
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What symptoms appear after 12 and 48 hours?
Other symptoms after vaccination against COVID-19 usually appear within several hours after vaccination. The most common side effects are systemic, such as:
- fever
- headache
- muscle pain
- chills
- weakness
Nausea and enlarged lymph nodes are other less common symptoms.
These symptoms may last 12 hours or more. According to doctors, they should disappear no later than 48 hours after vaccination.
Tests conducted by Pfizer showed that 77 percent. of the subjects had at least one of these symptoms. The most common symptoms were fatigue, fever and muscle pain.
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However, this is not a cause for concern. Flu-like symptoms show that your body produces the antibodies it needs to fight the virus. You can take painkillers to alleviate them.
Some of the side effects, including shoulder pain and fatigue, can last up to several days. However, if the vaccinated person experiences more severe symptoms even after two days, they should consult their doctor. This can happen if the patient was ill with COVID-19 or was suffering from another infection when getting vaccinated. It is also important to remember that with a two-dose vaccine, symptoms are usually more severe after the second dose.
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Different side effects vary from person to person
It is worth remembering that only two weeks after the second dose, the body develops full immunity to the virus, and between doses it is still susceptible to the pathogen.
In addition, each organism reacts differently to the vaccine. Even in the testing phase, younger people experienced more severe vaccine reactions than older people. The healthier the body, the more severely it reacts to the virus, hence the troublesome symptoms after vaccination. However, if someone does not experience any symptoms, it does not mean that their body is not defending itself. The timing and intensity of the immune response vary and depend on a wide variety of factors.
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No matter how unpleasant the side effects of taking the vaccine are, they are less severe than getting COVID-19, says Dr. Barron of the University Clinical Hospital in Colorado, USA.
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