Monitoring your own symptoms after vaccination helps identify adverse reactions, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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People often express concerns about routine immunizations causing adverse reactions. Panagis Galiatsatos, a critical care expert at Johns Hopkins and community medicine advocate, says it’s always a good idea to manage your own expectations by becoming educated on what common side effects might look like.

Galiatsatos: There's gonna be some arm soreness, you may feel some slight fevers and chills, but I tell patients you're still able to function through it. But high fevers is greater than 100, symptoms that last for more than 72 hours, those you should be reporting back. Those are more than we would expect. Anything also atypical like any numbness, any neurological symptoms, any weakness that you're starting to feel as well report immediately so talk to your pharmacist. But before getting anything what are some side effects what should I be looking out for?          :28

Galiatsatos says reporting serious adverse events to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System or VAERS benefits everyone. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.