An American doctor with a seafood allergy suffered a severe allergic reaction on Christmas night after receiving the Moderna coronavirus vaccine in the first week of its deployment across the country, according to media reports. USA.
Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh, a geriatric oncologist at Boston Medical Center, said he began to feel dizzy and his heart began to accelerate shortly after he was vaccinated Thursday.
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“My heart rate was 150, my normal heart rate is 75, but … six, seven minutes after the vaccine injection, I felt it on my tongue and also in my throat with some weird tingling sensation and numbness, the same reaction I had before I was allergic to seafood, ”Sadrzadeh told CNN on Friday.
As his blood pressure dropped, he decided to use his personal EpiPen, a common adrenaline autoinjector to treat the acute allergic reactions he had brought to the vaccine appointment, before being taken to the emergency room.
He told the Boston Globe it was the “worst allergic reaction” he had experienced as an adult.
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“I want people to take this seriously, people who have severe allergic reactions,” the newspaper said.
“I want them to talk to their doctors, to their allergist. I want them to take the EpiPen if they have it at home and also inform the person giving them this injection that they have a severe allergic reaction. “
“I had the experience. I was a doctor and I was afraid to die, ”said Sadrzadeh.
A Boston Medical Center spokesman confirmed the incident in a statement, saying Sadrzadeh was evaluated, discharged and was doing well on Friday.
According to reports, Sadrzadeh’s case is the first serious public reaction related to the Moderna vaccine, which, like the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, has been developed using mRNA technology.
Canada approved the Modern vaccine on Wednesday, with the first doses landing in the country a day later.
The country will receive up to 168,000 doses by the end of December and implementation is expected to begin next week.
It is not uncommon for a vaccine or any medication to produce side effects.
Health Canada has reported that people who have had previous allergic reactions to any of the ingredients listed on the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccine should not receive the doses.
It is said that most of the side effects of Moderna vaccine are expected to be mild and not last long.
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Signs of an allergic reaction include hives, difficulty breathing, and inflammation of the tongue, face, or throat. Health Canada has advised anyone who believes they may experience an allergic reaction to get medical attention “immediately.”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said last week that it is investigating at least five cases of allergic reactions that occur after receiving the Pfizer vaccine.
Dr. Karina Top, a researcher at the Canadian Center for Vaccinology and a professor at Dalhousie University, said an allergic reaction to any vaccine can start in minutes, but occasionally it can take up to two to three hours later. of vaccination.
“Allergic reactions that develop more than four hours after vaccination are almost always due to another cause, such as a reaction to a food or drug,” he told Global News in a previous interview.
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