The British claim that the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine made them lose teeth and develop flatulence, MailOnline may reveal.
The UK drug regulator, who police the safety of Covid’s jabs, has also received reports of inoculated Britons shouting, yawning or crying afterwards.
The authorities ask people to report any health problems they have had after vaccination, if a serious side effect arises. But the 65-page list of alleged reactions is full of oddities.
And some of them are even more common than real medical problems. Rare brain blood clots that scared German regulators have been reported five times, while six people reported ‘teething’ and 42 said that crying was a side effect.
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 are kept on record in case any of them are to be linked.
The scandal revolved around the jab last week after more than a dozen European nations stopped using it for fear that it could be linked to deadly blood clots.
But regulators dismissed the fears and said that the clots did not happen more often than normal and that the fact that people were recently vaccinated was just a coincidence. The verdict has led most European countries to turn around their prohibitions.
The bizarre list comes from Yellow Card reports submitted to the MHRA, which assesses the safety of the vaccine as it is launched. MHRA officials say that ‘the suspicious reactions described in this report are not proven side effects of Covid-19 vaccines’
The bizarre list of side effects comes from Yellow Card reports given to the MHRA, which assesses the safety of the vaccine when it is released.
So far, he has tracked all the potential side effects that happened among the first 11.7 million people to receive the Oxford / AstraZeneca injection in the UK.
The reactions include common side effects, such as headaches, fevers and muscle aches, all reported thousands of times and considered normal, affecting more than one in 10 people and disappearing on their own.
More serious health problems or causes of death are also included, such as stroke, heart attack and sepsis – although none have been linked to the vaccine.
The reason that serious illnesses and deaths are recorded in the vaccine report is to ensure that they do not happen more often than in the normal population.
This type of monitoring allowed the MHRA to respond quickly last week to claims that the injection caused blood clots and could prove that they were not happening with unusual frequency.
In addition to these side effects and medical problems, people strangely also report normal things that happen to them after the vaccine or even changes in their private lives.
Two people reported that they had retired after receiving the vaccine in submissions to the Yellow Card system.
One person reported ‘smoking’, suggesting that he started smoking and tried to associate it with the vaccine, while another reported that his diet failed.
Five Britons said they had been bitten or stung by an insect, 42 reported crying and three said they were screaming.
The physical effects that were most closely related to medical problems, but seem extremely unlikely to be associated with a Covid vaccine, included blinking excessively (one), eyes changing color (four), teeth growing (six) and losing teeth (a).
Thirty-nine people said they lost weight after the vaccine, compared with three who gained weight.
And 102 people reported flatulence – a passing wind – as a potential side effect, while 558 simply said they were ‘feeling abnormal’, but did not explain how.
The MHRA explained that most of the things people say in Yellow Card reports are in no way linked to the vaccine.
It 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 caused that reaction or event.
‘We ask that any suspicion be reported, even if the reporter is not sure if it was caused by the vaccine. Schema notifications are known as suspected adverse reactions (RAMs).
‘Many suspicious ADRs reported on a yellow card have nothing to do with the vaccine or medication and it is often coincidental that both occurred at the same time.
“The reports are continually reviewed to detect possible new side effects that may require regulatory action and to differentiate them from things that would have happened regardless of the vaccine or medication being administered, for example, due to an underlying or undiagnosed illness.
“Therefore, it is important that the suspected ADRs described in this report are not interpreted as proven side effects of the Covid-19 vaccines.”
People can report their symptoms after the vaccine through the MHRA Yellow Card reporting website and anyone who has received a vaccine can do so.
The focus on the potential side effects of the AstraZeneca vaccine came last week, when more than a dozen countries in Europe suspended the use of the vaccine for fear of blood clots.
Officials fear the injection may be linked 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, resulting in potentially deadly bleeding in the brain. Former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton developed one in 2012 and has fully recovered.
Symptoms can get worse quickly, from a headache, blurred vision and fainting to a complete loss of control over movements and seizures.
Regulators have asked people to call the doctor if they experience a headache for four days or more after receiving an injection of Covid.
But, according to Britain’s chiefs of health, CSVT is so rare that experts are not even sure how common it is in the general population.
MHRA chief Dr. June Raine said that blood clots in vaccinated patients may also have been caused by Covid itself, not by the vaccine.
John Hopkins University estimates that CSVT affects five in a million people in the United States each year, suggesting that 330 British patients suffer from the disease annually.
According to the university, it can affect patients with hypertension, cancer, vascular diseases and prone to blood clotting. Head injuries can also trigger the disease.
The MHRA said that five out of 11 million Britons injected developed cerebral sinus vein thrombosis (CSVT). The cases were all of men aged 19 to 59 and one was fatal.
Europe’s anti-drug surveillance body itself detected 13 additional notifications of CSVT in the continent’s vaccinated population.
After an investigation, the European Medicines Agency concluded that there was no evidence that the vaccine was increasing the risk of CSVT or blood clots in general and told countries to continue using the vaccine.
Most countries withdrew their prohibitions, except Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
Dr. Raine said: ‘There is no evidence that blood clots in the veins are occurring more than expected in the absence of vaccination, for either vaccine.
“We received a very small number of reports of an extremely rare form of blood clot in the brain veins (sinus vein thrombosis, or CSVT) occurring together with decreased 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 vaccinated people, and as a link to the vaccine has not been proven, the vaccine’s benefits in preventing Covid-19, with its associated risk of hospitalization and death, continue to offset the risks of potential side effects.
‘You must therefore continue to receive your jab when it is your turn.’