The British claim that AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine has caused them to lose their teeth and develop flatulence, MailOnline reveals.
The UK drug regulator, which monitors the safety of Covid blows, has also heard of leaving inoculated Britons screaming, yawning or crying afterwards.
Officials ask people to report any health issues they have had after getting vaccinated in case a serious side effect appears. But the 65-page list of alleged reactions is full of curiosities.
And some of these are even more common than real medical problems. Five rare cerebral blood clots were reported that scared German regulators five times, while six people reported “dentition” and 42 claimed that crying was a side effect.
The heads of the Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) say that “the suspicious reactions described in this report are not proven side effects of Covid vaccines.” But they remain recorded in case something later turns out to be linked.
Last week, the scandal revolved around the nuisance after more than a dozen European countries stopped using it because of fears it could be linked to deadly blood clots.
But regulators dismissed fears and said clots did not occur more often than usual and that the fact that people had recently been vaccinated was just a coincidence. The verdict caused most European countries to lift their bans.
The strange list comes from the yellow card reports submitted to the MHRA, which assess the safety of the vaccine as it unfolds. MHRA officials say “the suspicious reactions described in this report are not proven side effects of Covid-19 vaccines.”
The bizarre list of side effects comes from the yellow card reports submitted to the MHRA, which assesses the safety of the vaccine as it unfolds.
So far it has tracked all the potential side effects that happened among the first 11.7 million people to get the Oxford / AstraZeneca test in the UK.
Reactions include common side effects, such as headaches, fevers, and muscle aches, which have been reported thousands of times and are known to be normal, affecting more than 1 in 10 people and clearing up on their own. .
More serious health problems or causes of death, such as stroke, heart attack and sepsis, are also included, although none have been linked to the sting.
The reason serious illness and death are recorded in the vaccine report is to ensure that they do not occur more frequently than in the normal population.
This type of surveillance allowed the MHRA to respond quickly last week to claims that the punch caused blood clots and could show that they did not happen in an unusual way.
In addition to these side effects and medical problems, it is rare for people to also report normal things that happen to them after the vaccine or even changes in their privacy.
Two people reported that they had withdrawn after receiving the vaccine sent to the yellow card system.
One person reported being a “tobacco user,” suggesting he had started smoking and had tried to link it to the vaccine, while another reported that his diet had failed.
Five Britons said they had been bitten or stung by an insect, 42 reported bouts of crying and three said they had been left screaming.
Physical effects that were more related to medical problems, but which seem extremely unlikely to be related to a Covid vaccine, included excessive blinking (one), a change of eyes (four), a growth of teeth (six). ) and tooth loss (a).
Thirty-nine people said they lost weight after the vaccine compared to three who gained weight.
And 102 people reported flatulence (passing wind) as a potential side effect, while 558 simply said they had “felt abnormal,” but did not explain how.
The MHRA explained that most of the things people say in yellow card reports are not related to the vaccine.
He said: “The yellow card scheme is a mechanism by which anyone can voluntarily report any suspected adverse reactions or side effects to the vaccine.
“It is very important to note that a yellow card report does not necessarily mean that the vaccine has caused this reaction or event.
‘We ask that any suspicion be reported, even if the journalist is not sure if it was caused by the vaccine. The reports in the scheme are known as suspected adverse reactions (ADRs).
“Many ADR suspects reported on the yellow card have nothing to do with the vaccine or the drug and it is often coincidental that both occurred at the same time.
“Reports are continually reviewed to detect possible new side effects that may require regulatory action and differentiate them from things that would have happened regardless of the vaccine or drug being administered, for example due to underlying or undiagnosed diseases.
“Therefore, it is important that the suspected ADRs described in this report are not interpreted as proven side effects of Covid-19 vaccines.”
People can report their symptoms after a vaccine through the MHRA Yellow Card report website and anyone who has had a sting can do so.
The focus on the possible side effects of the AstraZeneca vaccine arose last week when more than a dozen European countries suspended the use of the spike for fear of blood clots.
Officials worried the puncture was related to a type of deadly clot called cerebral sinus vein thrombosis.
It occurs when the vein that drains blood from the brain is blocked by a blood clot, causing potentially fatal bleeding in the brain. Former United States presidential candidate Hillary Clinton developed one in 2012 and fully recovered.
Symptoms can deteriorate rapidly due to a headache, blurred vision, and fainting to complete loss of control over movement and seizures.
Regulators have asked people to call their doctor if they suffer from a headache for four days or more after receiving a stroke from Covid.
But according to British health officials, CSVT is so rare that experts don’t even know the degree of frequency the general population has.
The head of the MHRA, Dra. June Raine said blood clots in vaccinated patients could also have been caused by Covid herself, rather than the vaccine.
Johns Hopkins University estimates that CSVT affects five out of every million people in the United States each year, suggesting that 330 patients in Britain suffer from the disease annually.
According to the university, it can affect patients with low blood pressure, cancer, vascular disease and those prone to blood clotting. Head injuries can also trigger the disease.
The MHRA said five of the 11 million injected Britons developed cerebral sinus vein thrombosis (CSVT). The cases were all men between the ages of 19 and 59 and one was fatal.
The European drug surveillance dog itself has detected 13 additional CSVT reports in the continent’s vaccinated population.
Following an investigation, the European Medicines Agency concluded that there was no evidence that the vaccine increased the risk of CSVT or blood clots in general, and told countries to continue using the punch.
Most countries withdrew their bans, except Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
Dr Raine said: “There is no evidence that blood clots in the veins occur more than expected in the absence of vaccination, for either vaccine.
“We have received a very small number of reports of an extremely rare form of blood clot in cerebral veins (sinus vein thrombosis or CSVT) that occurs along with a decrease in platelets shortly after vaccination.
“This type of blood clot can occur naturally in people who have not been vaccinated, as well as in those who suffer from Covid-19.
“Given the extremely rare rate of occurrence of these CSVT events among the 11 million people vaccinated and, as no link to the vaccine is demonstrated, the benefits of the vaccine in the prevention of Covid-19 continue, with its associated risk of hospitalization and death.to compensate for the risks of potential side effects.
“Therefore, you should continue to receive your punch when it is your turn.”