Looking for Covid vaccination reassurance

[Hayleyg4]

Looking for Covid vaccination reassurance

My son (18) is due his first Covid vaccination tomorrow and I’m terrified of him having a bad reaction (myocarditis) from it.

I know there’s also the risk of myocarditis from Covid itself but my anxiety is through the roof thinking that he’s going to get it from the vaccine.

The main reason for him getting it is because he is going to the US in august and has to have it to get in.

There was new evidence reported last week, that the chance of myocarditis is really, really, extremely rare. Millions and millions of 18 year olds around the world have had it. My 2 sons, a bit older have had all 3 vaccines.

My two sons, early 20s were first in the queue for their vaccines. One already has a minor heart problem so felt the risk from covid to be much greater than the risk from vaccine.

Plenty of younger kids have had it in school and at hubs. Your son is an adult.

The risk of pretty much every claimed side effect is much higher in those who get full blown COVID. Its a vaccine. It's literally a fragment of virus or the recipe to make a fragment of virus. Don't fret. The cult of pseudoscience around vaccine safety is large, but entirely baseless

It's not without risk, but it is a very small risk and he is an adult, able to make his own risk assessment.

In the country I live in, the strict medical advice after you receive your vaccination is not to do any physical exercise ie running swimming cycling uphill for two weeks after vaccination, particularly if a young man. Obviously walking, gentle cycling etc is okay. This is to minimise the risk of developing myocarditis.

Plenty of younger kids have had it in school and at hubs. Your son is an adult.

The risk of myocarditis is higher for young men than for younger boys.

The risk is there but it's small. Your son needs to decide whether he wants to take the risk in order to travel to the US.

Your son needs to make his own risk assessment and decision.

Many countries in Europe no longer require travellers to be vaccinated. Perhaps the US will also change its stance soon?

Hi, I’m going to give you some links to papers that may be of use to you.

Myopericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination and non-COVID-19 vaccination: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Published 11/04/22

• outlines that there is an enhanced risk for males but no more than for flu vaccine and less than for smallpox. Also states that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks, while clearly laying out what those risks are.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(22)00059-5/fulltext

Risks of myocarditis, pericarditis, and cardiac arrhythmias associated with COVID-19 vaccination or SARS-CoV-2 infection
Published 14/12/21

• extra cases of myocarditis 28 days after vaccine: 1-6 extra per million post first dose, 10 extra per million after second dose
• extra cases of myocarditis 28 days after covid infection 40 per million
• increased risk of pericarditis and cardiac arrhythmia observed post covid infection, but not after vaccination.

www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0

Risk of thrombocytopenia and thromboembolism after covid-19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 positive testing: self-controlled case series study
Published 27/08/21
(Visual abstract attached to post)
“ Increased risks of haematological and vascular events that led to hospital admission or death were observed for short time intervals after first doses of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 and BNT162b2 mRNA vaccines. The risks of most of these events were substantially higher and more prolonged after SARS-CoV-2 infection than after vaccination in the same population.”
www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1931

These are just some of the many evidence based papers showing that the risk of vaccination is lesser than the risk faced from covid infection, and indeed other vaccines your son may have already had without the bat of an eyelid.

There has been a lot of unsettling publicity over this issue, from what I’ve read, and you will too if you take some time to research it - even when there are adverse effects such as the above they are largely resolvable for the minority in which they occur.

I hope this helps.