After suffering severe bouts every time he receives a flu shot, an 87-year-old reader wonders if he could receive two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine without suffering the same fate. After his third attack, he was rushed to hospital, while in severe pain, as a San Constant resident recounts a concern about issuing a medical passport for travel.
According to Chantal Valli, the information officer for the Monteregion Department of Public Health, a person who suspects an allergic reaction should fully inform them at setting an appointment, then at the vaccination clinic.
“This information is collected in an online pre-vaccination questionnaire and re-checked by the on-site nurse,” she explains. “If there is no identical component between the flu vaccine she received and the COVID-19 vaccine, she will be able to receive the vaccine, but she will have to wait 30 minutes. [sur place] After it has been administered. ”The normal waiting time is 15 minutes.
In addition, Claudine Dancero, a care advisor at the Center for Integrated Health and Social Services in Montérégie-Ouest (CISSSMO), specifies that if the risks are too high after verification of the two ingredients, the person will not be able to receive the vaccine.
“In this case, we can count on other products we have been waiting for that will not contain the same ingredients,” she says.
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