According to health experts, a rare side effect of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine may be a good sign.
Some recipients reported experiencing ‘Covid arm’, in which people experience itchy and swollen skin, sometimes accompanied by red bumps or hives.
But the splotch is a harmless response of the immune system to the shot that fades within a week.
In fact, Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, says that such a reaction is an indication that your body is rushing to the future. to prevent a possible infection.
Some patients have reported a rare side effect called ‘COVID arm’, which appears as a red and swollen spot, which is often painful to touch after receiving the Moderna vaccine.
Health officials say the rash looks harmless and will go away on its own within a few days with treatments such as ice and Tylenol.
Chin-Hong said the reactions should not be a cause for concern, but rather a ‘celebration’.
“The first reason for celebration is the reaction you feel when your immune system is working and getting ready to protect you,” he said.
“The second cause of celebration is that it disappears and does not really linger.”
The official term used by dermatologists and allergists to describe the side effect is ‘delayed skin sensitivity’.
Cutaneous agents that affect the skin, hypersensitivity means an unwanted reaction that is produced by the immune system and is delayed because it is usually given days after the shot.
One infectious disease specialist said the side effect (photo) is a good sign because the immune system is on the rise and trained to fight the infection.
The rash is usually red and swollen and is sometimes painful to the touch and always appears on the arm in which the vaccine was administered.
Such reactions were also found in people who received tetanus vaccines, the chickenpox vaccine and the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, rubella).
But COVID arm only occurred in people who received the COIVD-19 vaccine from Moderna, not Pfizer, and were reported in their clinical trials.
Chin-Hong told DailyMail.com that he compares the side effect to the immune system in a military boot camp.
‘The start-up camp is a gradual process. In the beginning, the antibodies or combat soldier cells that you develop were not fully trained, ‘he said.
“Then they are trained and in that process of training they become very excited or anxious or angry because they work hard and become very good over time.”
The ‘angry’ feeling of the solid may manifest as COVID-poor, but eventually goes away on its own.
Chin-Hong says it is the immune system that prepares you if you become infected with coronavirus.
“So if you get the second chance, they’re all ready to jump over this thing that looks like what they’ve been practicing for all their lives,” he said.
‘But then it’s not the right thing to do COVIDo back in the base. ‘
However, he said that there is no reason to panic if people do not experience the reaction, because in clinical trials, half of the participants did not experience any side effects.
“If you do not get it, it does not mean that your immune system is not working,” he explained.
If you experience reaction, try pulling your house or using a hot compress, take Tylenol or ibuprofen if it does not work.
But most of all, Chin-Hong says that whether your reaction is headache or COVID-poor, it is better than the long-term effects of COVID-19.
‘From the most common to things unrelated to the vaccine, it’s much easier to get something and deal with it temporarily rather than the longer-acting effects of COVID and the uncertainty about how sick you will get and the potential long-distance- syndrome, where symptoms will linger for months and months and months, ‘he said.
