Patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) do not appear to have increased risk of side effects from the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, according to a recent Cedars-Sinai study published online and upcoming in print in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
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IBDs, including Crohn s disease and ulcerative colitis, are chronic conditions that occur when the intestinal immune system becomes overreactive, causing chronic diarrhea and other digestive symptoms. In a published survey at the beginning of COVID-19 vaccine distribution, 70% of IBD patients reported concern about side effects from the vaccines. What we ve learned is that if you have IBD, the side effects you re likely to experience after a vaccine are no different than they would be for anyone else, said Gil Melmed, MD, corresponding author of the study and director of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Research at Cedars-Sinai. If you re being treated with advanced therapies such as biologics, these side effects might even be milder. So, don t let that be a reason that you re not getting vaccinated.
Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus that’s at the centre of the global pandemic, is primarily a respiratory or lung disease. Yet, the heart can also suffer, agree doctors. And that is why it is imperative for those with pre-existing heart ailments not to stop regular medication without the advice of a doctor.
Early reports coming out of China and Italy, two areas where Covid-19 took hold earlier in the pandemic, show that up to 1 in 5 patients with the illness end up with heart damage, notes an article in
Johns Hopkins Medicine. Heart failure has been the cause of death in Covid-19 patients, even those without severe breathing problems such as acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS.
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