Can you Consume Alcohol After Getting Vaccination and Here is What Doctor’s Recommend that You Should Do
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If you are going to get your Covid-19 shot shoon, you might have a lot of questions about what you can do and can’t do before and after the vaccination process. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released guidelines for people who have been vaccinated but they recommend avoiding OTC pain killer medicine such as ibuprofen and Tylenol before the vaccine and you are required to consult your doctor about taking the medicine to relieve any discomfort after the vaccine.
IN the UK, experts recently advised people to avoid drinking alcohol in the days leading up to and after receiving the vaccination. While a Russian health official went a lot further last month telling people who received the country’s Sputnik V vaccine they should abstain from alcohol for two months. However, the developer of the Sputnik V vaccine, Alexander Gitsburg, PhD later said that this advice is far too extreme. And he mentioned that only three days are required for the alcohol refraining.
However, there is no official government recommendation on drinking alcohol before or after the three Covid-19 vaccines in the US side however, research on the Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson vaccines didn’t ask trial participants to avoid alcohol, and there’s no mention of people having issues after drinking in the trial results. Nor do the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccination guidance for the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines make any reference to alcohol.
Vaccine side effects include muscle aches and pain and feeling are common as the system is building up the immune system. Another issue is that people who drink alcohol after getting the shot might blame their hangover symptoms on the vaccine, adds infectious disease expert Amesh A. Adalja, M.D., senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. If they’ve signed up for the CDC’s V-Safe After Vaccination Health Checker, they might report those hangover symptoms as side effects, and even tell other people about them—which could put people off getting the vaccine, Dr. Adalja tells Health.
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