Nurses’ Note:
Covid-19 Information:
New York State Covid Hot Line: (888)364-3065
New York State Covid Vaccine Hot Line: (833) 697-4829
New York State Covid-19 Vaccine Web Site: covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov
1. Should you avoid certain medications or treatments before getting vaccinated for COVID-19?
If you're not sure, talk to your healthcare provider.
2. Why should we be cautious about medication or treatment-related issues before getting a COVID-19 vaccine?
What's gling on is that we want a robuse immune response fron the COVID-19 vaccine. So anything that would interfere with it should be avoided. The effeciveness of the caccine all comes down to how well your immune system responds to it. If your body is focused on doing something else, it's not going to spend the time necessary to build up that robuse response to the COVID-19 vaccine.
3. Don’t take anti-inflammatory drugs before getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
You might be tempted to take aspirin, ibuprofen or another pain reliever before your vaccination appointment. This is a major don’t. While you may be looking to protect yourself from potential symptoms of the immune response, you’d be doing more harm than good.
Generally the advice is to wait until after you get your COVID-19 vaccination to take an anti-inflammatory medication. If you take one before, there’s a possibility that it could blunt the immune response to the vaccine. This is also true for many other vaccines. You can take a pain reliever after you get vaccinated and hydrate all you want. But don’t take anything before your appointment.
4. Should you stop taking routing medication before your vaccination?
MEdications for blood pressuer, diabetes, asthma and other common health conditions aren't thing to be concerned about. Studies for the vaccines were done with a number of people who had many of these common medical conditions. If you have hypertension or another common medical condition, you can have a little more peace of mind knowing that they did studies and trials on the COVID-19 vaccines which included people with the same conditions. The food news is that they responded well to the vaccines. So, don't change any of your regular medications.
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