Journal
ALLERGOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
Volume 70, Issue 3, Pages 313-318Publisher
JAPANESE SOC ALLERGOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/j.alit.2021.04.003
Keywords
Anaphylaxis; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Vaccines; Vaccine allergy
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- research program Talento Investigador of the Community of Madrid (Regional Ministry of Science, Universities, and Innovation, Madrid, Spain)
- Strategic Health Action (AES 2020), Carlos III Health Institute, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
- European Regional Development Fund [PI20/00351]
- Community of Madrid [2019-T1/BIO-12690]
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This passage discusses adverse allergic reactions to COVID-19 vaccines, with a focus on anaphylactic reactions following the administration of mRNA-1273 and BNT162b2 vaccines. It emphasizes the importance of avoiding vaccination for individuals with allergies to drugs or vaccine components.
Adverse allergic reactions due to the administration of the vaccines developed for the protection of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been reported since the initiation of the vaccination campaigns. Current analyses provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States have estimated the rates of anaphylactic reactions in 2.5 and 11.1 per million of mRNA-1273 and BNT162b2 vaccines administered, respectively. Although rather low, such rates could have importance due to the uncommon fact that a large majority of the world population will be subjected to vaccination with the aforementioned vaccines in the following months and vaccination will most likely be necessary every season as for influenza vaccines. Health regulators have advised that any subject with a previous history of allergy to drugs or any component of the vaccines should not be vaccinated, however, certain misunderstanding exists since allergy to specific excipients in drugs and vaccines are in occasions misdiagnosed due to an absence of suspicion to specific excipients as allergenic triggers or due to inaccurate labeling or nomenclature. In this review, we provide an updated revision of the most current data regarding the anaphylactic reactions described for BNT162b2 vaccine, mRNA-1273 vaccine, and AZD1222 vaccine. We extensively describe the different excipients in the vaccines with the potential to elicit systemic allergic reactions such as polyethylene glycol (PEG), polysorbates, tromethamine/trometamol, and others and the possible immunological mechanisms involved. Copyright (C) 2021, Japanese Society of Allergology. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V.
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