If You Have These Conditions, Your COVID Vaccine May Be Less Effective
By Sarah Crow of Best Life |
If You Have These Conditions, Your COVID Vaccine May Be Less Effective
If you re eagerly awaiting your chance to get a COVID vaccine, you re not alone. However, a new study suggests that getting vaccinated may not confer the level of protection you d hoped if you have two common conditions. Read on to discover which conditions could be lowering your vaccine s efficacy. And for more insight into the newest vaccine, check out The Side Effects of the New Johnson & Johnson Vaccine.
A new study conducted by researchers at the Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research at the Ohio State University College of Medicine and accepted for publication in
Summary: Health behaviors and emotional stressors can alter the body’s ability to develop an immune response to vaccines, including potentially the new COVID-19 vaccines. Simple interventions, including exercising and getting a good night’s sleep in the 24 hours before vaccination, may maximize the vaccine’s initial effectiveness.
Decades of research show that depression, stress, loneliness, and poor health behaviors can weaken the body’s immune system and lower the effectiveness of certain vaccines. A new report accepted for publication in
Perspectives on Psychological Science suggests that the same may be true for the new COVID-19 vaccines that are in development and the early stages of global distribution. Fortunately, it may be possible to reduce these negative effects with simple steps like exercise and sleep.
Have you been feeling more stressed than usual? Many people are during these challenging times. The COVID-19 pandemic has many people feeling overwhelmed.
Everyone feels stress sometimes. It’s a natural response to a challenge or demand. Stress can come from the day-to-day pressures of work and family.
But stress is much more than just being busy, explains Dr. Janice Kiecolt-Glaser of The Ohio State University, who studies the effects of stress on the body.
“It’s the feeling that you’re overloaded, out of control, and unable to cope,” she says.
Stress can also come from a sudden negative change in your life like a divorce or losing a job. Traumatic events like a major accident, assault, or natural disaster can cause severe stress.
COVID-19 vaccine creates incentive to improve our health
Previous research suggests stress, depression, inactivity could interfere with immune response
While we wait for our turn to get vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, we could – and probably should – use the time to make sure we bring our healthiest emotional and physical selves to the treatment, a new review of previous research suggests.
Ohio State University researchers reviewed 49 vaccine studies in humans dating back 30 years that document how stress, depression and poor health behaviors can negatively affect the body’s immune response to vaccination, and how improving health factors can enhance that response.
The impaired immune responses tended to fall into three categories – interference with the development of antibodies against the pathogen, more rapid erosion of antibody protection that does develop, or intensification of vaccination’s side effects.
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