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(CRHoy.com) Get vaccinated against COVID-19 could cause some side effects that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, for its acronym in English) qualify as “normal and indicate that the organism is generating protection”.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) compiled information on the effects that authorized vaccines against Sars-CoV-2 can cause.
These are the adverse reactions:
- In the injection area: pain, redness, swelling.
- In the rest of the body: tiredness, headache, muscle pain, chills, fever, and nausea.
Scientists from health agencies say that these symptoms should disappear a few days after the injection is given; however, these reactions usually occur within 6 weeks of receiving a dose of the vaccine.
Heart damage?
As part of the adverse reactions, cases of myocarditis o pericarditis especially in adolescents and young men.
The CDC describes the myocarditis such as inflammation of the heart muscle and pericarditis It is an inflammation of the outer layer that covers the heart. In both cases, the body’s immune system causes the inflammation in response to an infection or some other trigger.
The identified cases occurred more frequently after the second dose and usually within a week of vaccination.
Symptoms associated with this reaction are: chest pain, shortness of breath, and a feeling that your heart is racing or beats with greater force.
For the doctor, María Luis Ávila, a pediatrician specializing in infectology at the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), this would be associated with high levels of testosterone.
“But if you compare myocarditis cases caused by Sars-CoV-2, and those that can be attributed to the vaccine, there are more caused by the virus,” added the doctor.
According to the North American agency, those people who have presented this reaction, responded well to treatment and can resume their usual activities of daily life once your symptoms improve.
Given this, they recommend in the same way get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Importance of the vaccine
Dr. Olga Arguedas, director of the National Children’s Hospital, assures that the anti-COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective in its function of protection against complications derived from the disease.
“The important thing is that being fully vaccinated, the risk that this contagion will evolve into a serious disease and that you will have to go to a hospitalization service and have to end up in an ICU or die, is very unlikely (…) The vaccines they have proven to be safe and effective against all variants,” he concluded.
The doctors recommended that the public get the complete scheme and the booster doses if they are of the corresponding age group, in order to be protected against the virus.
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