Don't drink alcohol after vaccine shot

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Drinking alcohol after getting a coronavirus vaccine can significantly blunt the immune response and potentially render the vaccine ineffective, according to a leading Russian scientist. “We strongly recommend refraining from alcohol for three days after each injection,” Alexander Gintsburg, head of the Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, which is developing the Sputnik V vaccine, told New Scientist.

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/articl...-getting-a-coronavirus-vaccine/#ixzz6j5AwIRIj
 

I've wondered if taking any aspirin or tylenol,
if wanted anytime during the few days after it,
for any related or unrelated reason,

might possibly interfere with immune response...???

Do any of you know?
@Lewkat or @OneEyedDiva
Or anyone else, more informed on it than I am?
 
mellowyellow said:
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Drinking alcohol after getting a coronavirus vaccine can significantly blunt the immune response and potentially render the vaccine ineffective, according to a leading Russian scientist. “We strongly recommend refraining from alcohol for three days after each injection,” Alexander Gintsburg, head of the Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, which is developing the Sputnik V vaccine, told New Scientist.

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/articl...-getting-a-coronavirus-vaccine/#ixzz6j5AwIRIj
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good to know. thanks.
 
I've been hitting the aspirin bottle since last night. I started having chills and fever with a crushing headache. I thought to myself, here we go again as I always react to vaccines. So it has been on and off all day and am just starting again. This had better be over by tomorrow.
 
Kaila said:
I've wondered if taking any aspirin or tylenol,
if wanted anytime during the few days after it,
for any related or unrelated reason,

might possibly interfere with immune response...???

Do any of you know?
@Lewkat or @OneEyedDiva
Or anyone else, more informed on it than I am?
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I don't know about the COVID vaccine Kaila but my sister told me that her former doctor, now retired, used to tell her to take Tylenol immediately after getting her flu shot and she wouldn't get sick from it. Since she started doing that, she never got sick from it again and she get the flu shot every year.
 
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i find it interesting that this article about the otc meds could make it less effective and yet employee health people administering the vaccines and our CMO didn't say a word to us about that. i wonder if it's even true.
 
I know. I agree.

I don't understand why there are credible-appearing sources of this info, but it is not widely talked about, and the idea is rarely discussed.

I don't comprehend why it isn't mentioned more often and by more sources. The explanations seem very plausible to me, but I am surely not a doctor or an expert, so I am not advising others.
 
i have sent an email to our CMO. i know he will look into it. i just find it interesting that weeks after this vaccine starts to go out these articles start appearing. i seriously suggest that people check with their docs before taking the word of these news articles. no offense Kaila. *hugs*
 
Perhaps the possible effects of these OTC on vaccines, is so small that it is not significant.

Or maybe, there just is not enough money put to researching the common OTC's any further.
 
Kaila said:
Perhaps the possible effects of these OTC on vaccines, is so small that it is not significant.

Or maybe, there just is not enough money put to researching the common OTC's any further.
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well we haven't heard anything about it at all since they started dosing us last month. or even prior to. if he gets back to me with some info i'll pass it along.
 
Kaila said:
Perhaps the possible effects of these OTC on vaccines, is so small that it is not significant.

Or maybe, there just is not enough money put to researching the common OTC's any further.
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Ok Kaila...I was out for the night but I just got this email now so I will copy and paste.

From our CMO:
In general, it is thought that medicines like aspirin, Tylenol, and ibuprofen might blunt your immune response to vaccines, but probably not enough to say that taking them makes the vaccine ineffective altogether. The recommendation to avoid those medications with vaccines actually applies to all vaccines, not just COVID vaccines. The recommendation is actually if you don’t take them regularly and don’t need them, then avoid taking them; but if you do take them regularly or do need them to help manage side effects, then it is okay to take them. It just wasn’t studied specifically with the COVID vaccines, so the recommendation was made to avoid them, and the media has blown it out of proportion.

I hope this helps ease some of your concerns. :)
 
Very good input, @MarciKS
Thank you!
I had posted the links about it, hoping that someone would have access to some more info on this possible issue, which I hadn't been able to find, myself. Thanks again!
 
I'm hardly an expert on this, but I don't think Tylenol should be lumped in with the Nsaids like Ibuprofen and Aspirin. It's a different type of medication. Often, Tylenol is OK when those others are not.
 

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