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What are the options for those who cannot be vaccinated.

We have a friend who has had allergy issues with vaccines her entire life. It has been recommended she not get any of the 3 vaccines currently available.

I have read some about regeneron and ivermectin and still looking.

One would think that those in the medical profession that are recommending against vaccination would recommend alternatives. There must be hundreds of thousands who can not be vaccinated for medical reasons.

I never gave it a thought until recently being made aware!

If I could correct the title I would replace "options" with "alternatives".

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Originally Posted by billethkid (Post 2039978)

Your question has been beaten to death for months on the internet. Your friends Physician would the person to advise the best treatment.

We have immediate family that physician strongly recommended against vaccine. Their physicians have a different protocol set for each one.

Sharing protocols, would be the same as you offering your friend the prescriptions in your medicine cabinet, because they work for you, they may work for your friend. NOT…

The answers you are looking for, is within their physicians care.

Such a shame but she will be treated like she has leprosy. She will be required to be constantly tested. Life sure has changed.

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Originally Posted by Bay Kid (Post 2040064)

Such a shame but she will be treated like she has leprosy. She will be required to be constantly tested. Life sure has changed.

That is exactly what is happening by some neighbors and even certain family members.....even though they are fully vaccinated...and she religiously wears N97 masks!

Fear driven by ignorance....(my opinion).

I would get another physician's opinion. Having allergies is NOT a contraindication to getting vaccines. Only if this person has a specific known allergy to one of the components in the Covid vaccine is there any certain reason to avoid it. And only immediate anaphylactic reactions count. Otherwise a person can be vaccinated and watched safely.

Be aware just like there are anti-vaccine politicians there are anti-vaccine doctors who let their political affiliations color their medical opinions. "Problems" with vaccines as the OP wrote is not the same as having an immediate allergic reaction. If your arm swelled up the next day or you got a lump that lasted several weeks, or a fever, those are not immediate allergic reactions, those are side effects. We all got them from our Covid shots, and maybe flu shots and tetanus shots too.

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If you have had an immediate allergic reaction—even if it was not severe—to a vaccine or injectable therapy for another disease, ask your doctor if you should get a COVID-19 vaccine

Note that this CDC advice does not say that you cannot get the shot even with a previous immediate reaction. You may have reacted to a specific part of another vaccine that is not in the Covid vaccine. You can be skin tested for allergy to vaccines before you receive them. This is a well established technique for children to get shots when there is a question of safety.

Here is the link to the CDC recommendation on how to evaluate whether allergies should alter the Covid vaccine plan

The key sentence is:

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CDC recommends that people get vaccinated even if they have a history of severe allergic reactions not related to vaccines or injectable medications—such as food, pet, venom, environmental, or latex allergies. People with a history of allergies to oral medications or a family history of severe allergic reactions may also get vaccinated.

If your doctor is not giving you this advice, you need to ask why they are ignoring the CDC's opinion. If your doctor tells you they know more about allergies to vaccines than those at the CDC, consider getting a new doctor.

It's a choice people...how many of you ever questioned your neighbors about did they get their flu shot before??? How many of you ran out and got your kids HPV immunizations when they first came out?? Things that make ya go hummmm.......COVID Vaccine Invented before Outbreak – Undercurrents

There are allergy doctors and I would go to one of them for tests and advice. Your Primary Doctor should refer you to an allergist-Immunologist. If he/she will not, I would be in search of a “new” Primary Doctor.

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Originally Posted by billethkid (Post 2039978)

Your intentions are good. Your friend should ask her doctor. Her DOCTOR should know what she is allergic to and if it is in these vaccines. Perhaps, the same issue. I read someone who posted that ????? a sister is allergic to nickle, which is used in the stainless steel hypodermic needles. Truly a simple issue. Hypodermic needles were made of non-stainless steel in the past. There are ones made of plastic

Seeking medical advice here, from people who do not know what the issue is does not make sense.

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Originally Posted by Koapaka (Post 2040190)

I've been doing a lot of hmmmming lately myself........you've brought up a couple of good points!

This is a question for her doctor, who is familiar with her medical history.

Wondering how she got this far without getting shots for school/military. Florida requires the following for K-12 schools: four or five doses of Dipththeria-tetanus-pertussis (DTa), for or fives doses of inactivated polio vaccine, two doses of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), one tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis (Tdap), two doses of Varicella (chickenpox). Those are required for childcare or daycare or non public schools. How did she get through school?