A Massachusetts doctor said he experienced a severe allergic reaction after receiving the Moderna coronavirus vaccine on Thursday – the first of its kind recorded.
Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh, a geriatric oncologist at Boston Medical Center, felt dizzy and developed a rapid heartbeat within minutes of being inoculated, according to The New York Times.
A Boston doctor said he developed a severe allergic reaction on Thursday after receiving the Moderna coronavirus vaccine. He self-administered EpiPen and recovered quickly. Severe allergic reactions to the vaccine remain a rarity, experts said. https://t.co/m9DNmwewXC
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Boston Medical Center spokesman David Kibbe said in a statement that Dr. Sadrzadeh “felt he was developing an allergic reaction and was allowed to administer his own personal EpiPen. He was taken to the Emergency Department, where he was evaluated.” treated, observed and discharged … He is doing well today. ”
Due to his allergy to shellfish, the doctor brought EpiPen to the vaccine injection program. Within minutes, her heart rate had increased to 150 beats per minute, and her tongue began to stiffen before she fell asleep.
Soon, Sadrzadeh was soaked in a cold sweat and fainted. And his tension dropped.
“It was the same anaphylactic reaction I experience with shellfish,” Dr. Sadrzadeh told the Times. “I don’t want anyone going through this.”
While in the emergency room, he was given steroids and Benadryl to relax the immune response that overwhelmed his body. A report from his visit indicated that he was “seen urgently for difficulty breathing, dizziness, palpitations and numbness after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine.”
Sadrzadeh was released from medical care four hours later and said he was feeling well.
With more than a million injections already given to beneficiaries across the country, a doctor says severe reactions are less common and should not incite fear in most people.
“This should not discourage people who are not at high risk,” said Dr. Merin Kuruvilla, an allergist and immunologist at Emory University.
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