People with cosmetic facial fillers can experience swelling and inflammation with one of the coronavirus vaccines, the FDA advisory committee noted.
According to the committee, several test subjects with fillers have already experienced side effects. A California dermatologist said the response was immunological, ABC7 reported Thursday.
“Your inflammatory immune system is boosted when you get a vaccine, that’s how it should work,” said Dr. Shirley Chi, who noted that the side effects were easily managed by medical personnel.
“So it makes sense that you would see an immune response in certain areas where they see a substance that is not a naturally occurring substance in your body.”
However, she said the side effects shouldn’t stop people from getting the vaccine.
“In these cases, the patients all had swelling and inflammation in the area that received the filler,” said Chi.
“A few patients had cheek filler six months prior to their vaccination and one patient received lip filler two days after the vaccine. They were all treated with steroids and antihistamines and all their reactions disappeared. “
Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine received FDA approval Friday, offering an alternative to a vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech.
The two work “better than we could have hoped,” NIH director Dr. Francis Collins to The Associated Press. “Science works here, science has done a great thing.”
Initial results from large, unfinished studies show that both vaccines appear to be safe and highly protective, although Moderna is easier to handle because it does not need to be stored at ultra-frozen temperatures.