Posted on 07/21/2021
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Until now, government guidelines have leaned in favor of vaccination against Covid from the second trimester of pregnancy. But yesterday, Olivier Véran affirmed that there was no contraindication to vaccination, and this, from the first trimester.
Pregnancy is not a contraindication to vaccination against Covid
It was during the questioning session to the government at the National Assembly that the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran announced a list of three contraindications to vaccination against Covid 19, which did not include pregnancy. . “There is no contraindication to the mRNA vaccine, neither the first semester pregnancy, nor the last trimester pregnancy, nor the history of allergy to an antibiotic.“, he declared in the hemicycle.”It is therefore on this basis that proper medical certificates can be recognized as contraindications and not on a simple medical or pharmaceutical opinion with an allergic history.“He specifies. Until now, pregnant women were advised to be vaccinated from the second trimester considering that the lack of data on this subject. However, no adverse effects have been noted so much for the mother and baby in countries (such as the United States) where pregnant women are vaccinated from the start of their pregnancy. him that there is “there is no time limit between vaccination with mRNA vaccine or viral vector against Covid-19 and the onset of pregnancy”1.
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What are the contraindications to vaccination against Covid?
The Minister announced Tuesday in front of the deputies the three contraindications to the vaccination against the Covid, which concern, according to him only “a few hundred French”. The first targets children with “PIMS syndrome”, or pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome, a very rare complication in younger children when they have been infected with the coronavirus. “Severe myocarditis, pericarditis and hepatitis-like reactions requiring hospitalization and following a first injection of mRNA vaccine”Are part of the second category, said Olivier Véran and finally, people allergic to PEG2000, or polyethylene glycol (molecules that go into the composition of the vaccine) should avoid the vaccine. The Minister of Health wants to be reassuring, however, these allergies concern “about ten cases in our country”, He maintained. “History of allergy to any antibiotic or bee sting “should not create obstacles to vaccination, said the former member of Isère.
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