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Report #2829701

Received Mar 5, 2025

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Overview

Sex
Female
Age
65 yrs
State
ME
Recovered
Recovered
Vaccinated
Mar 5, 2025
Onset
Mar 5, 2025
Days to onset
0
Hospital days
—

Vaccines (1)

TypeNameManufacturerDoseLotRoute / Site
VARZOSZOSTER (SHINGRIX)GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS1A5T73IM / RA

Symptoms (3)

Anaphylactic shockCoughWheezing

Symptom narrative

PATIENT WENT INTO ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK WITHIN 5 MINUTES AFTER SHINGLES VACCINATION. PATIENT BEGAN COUGHING AND WHEEZING, SHE SELF ADMINISTERED BENADRYL SHE BROUGHT HERSELF AS SHE HAS HAD MULTIPLE ALLERGIC REACTIONS TO VARIOUS DRUGS AND ALLERGENS AND "CAME PREPARED." PATIENT THEN BEGAN HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME BREATHING AND SELF-ADMINISTERED HER OWN EPI-PEN SHE BROUGHT WITH HER TO THE VACCINATION. ONE DOSE OF EPINEPHRINE WAS SELF-ADMINISTERED BY THE PATIENT IN THE THIGH AND SYMPTOMS RESOLVED QUICKLY. PATIENT WAITED ANOTHER 5 MINTUES RECOVERING AND PATIENT DECLINED EMS/FURTHER MEDICAL ATTENTION WHEN OFFERED TO THE PATIENT AS SHE HAS DEALT WITH ANAPHYLAXIS MULTIPLE TIMES.

Prior vaccinations

PATIENT REPORTED HAVING AN ANAPHYLACTIC REACTION TO THE FLU SHOT MORE THAN ONCE, PATIENT WAS UNSURE OF DATES OF WHICH SHOT CAUSE