Should you take a painkiller before your COVID-19 vaccine?
Can someone who is about to receive the coronavirus vaccine take painkillers before or after the vaccine is administered to them?
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Although the evidence is limited, some painkillers might interfere with the very thing the vaccine is trying to do: generate a strong immune system response.
"It's an important but unknown question," said Dr. Todd Ellerin, chief of infectious diseases at South Shore Health in Massachusetts.
"I think the best thing to do right now is to not take Tylenol or ibuprofen before the vaccine," Ellerin said. "If you have significant side effects afterward, absolutely."
Vaccines work by tricking the body into thinking it has a virus and mounting a defense against it. That may cause arm soreness, fever, headache, muscle aches or other temporary symptoms of inflammation that can be part of that reaction.
Ellerin said during the clinical trials for the vaccine, approximately 50% of patients took some sort of pain killer following the vaccine.
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Certain painkillers that target inflammation, including ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin and other brands) might curb the immune response. A study on mice in the Journal of Virology found these drugs might lower the production of antibodies 바카라 게임 웹사이트 helpful substances that block the virus from infecting cells.
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