'You should not have the vaccine' if you have allergies - virologist warns of side effects
People with a history of significant allergic reactions have been warned against getting the Pfizer/BioNTech, which was approved for mass use in the UK last week. The warning comes after two NHS workers experienced allergic reactions on Tuesday. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) advise against people getting the vaccine if they’ve had reactions to medicines, food or vaccines.
The MHRA’s advice was echoed by virologist Dr Chris Smith.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, he explained: “All drugs, all medicines, all interventions like this have side effects – there is no such thing as a drug without side effects.
“All of us look different on the outside because we all genuinely genetically different, and that means we’re all subtly very different on the inside biochemically.
“When we make drugs and medicines it’s a best fit – it’s a bit like the shoe shop, taking the first pair of shoes off the shelf and saying please wear these. And we haven’t measured everyone’s feet individually.
“That’s an aspiration of medicine in the future, that kind of personalised medicine.
“But this does mean you do occasionally get a pharmaceutical equivalent of an ill-fitting pair of shoes in a very small number of people.”
Dr Smith said the goal of making any kind of medicine or drug is to minimise the number of people who end up with a badly fitting pair of shoes.
“But it does happen,” Dr Smith added. “We do accept it happens, and the key thing here is MHRA have been very fast to say, ‘well we’ve noticed this, we’ll investigate, but in the meantime as a cautionary note we’ll advise people who are in this particular position’.
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