A Massachusetts doctor said he experienced a severe allergic reaction after receiving Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine on Thursday – the first of its kind on record.
Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh, a geriatric oncologist at Boston Medical Center, felt dizzy and developed a fast heartbeat minutes after being inoculated, according to The New York Times.
A Boston doctor said he developed a severe allergic reaction after receiving Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine on Thursday. He self-administered his EpiPen and recovered quickly. Serious allergic reactions to the vaccine remain a rarity, experts say. 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 self-administer his personal EpiPen. He was taken to the Emergency Department, assessed, treated, observed and released. He’s fine today. ”
Due to his shellfish allergy, the doctor brought his EpiPen for the vaccine injection consultation. Within minutes, his heart rate increased to 150 beats per minute and his tongue started to tingle before he went numb.
In no time, Sadrzadeh was soaked with cold sweat and felt dizzy. And your blood pressure dropped.
“It was the same anaphylactic reaction that I experienced with seafood,” said Dr. Sadrzadeh to the Times. “I don’t want anyone to go through this.”
While in the emergency room, he received steroids and Benadryl to relax the immune response that overwhelmed his body. A report of his visit indicated that he was “seen in the emergency room for shortness of breath, dizziness, palpitations and numbness after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine.”
Sadrzadeh was released from medical care four hours later and said he felt in good health.
With more than a million injections already administered to recipients across the country, a doctor says that serious reactions are uncommon and should not incite fear in most people.
“This should not stop people who are obviously not at increased risk,” explained Dr. Merin Kuruvilla, an allergist and immunologist at Emory University.
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