Age: 89.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Blood test, Computerised tomogram, Illness, Pain, Pain in jaw
Clinical narrative: Parotitis; little soreness and a little swelling at that right side of her jaw and near where her ear is/ had some swelling in her jaw; entire jaw was swollen and very painful; started to feel ill; she was in a lot of pain; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer, the patient.   A 89-years-old female patient received second dose of bnt162b2 (PFIZER BIONTECH COVID 19 VACCINE, formulation: solution for injection, lot number: EN6206) via an unspecified route of administration, in arm right on 05mar2021 in early afternoon as dose 2, single (age at the time of vaccination 89 years) for covid-19 immunisation. Medical history included ongoing ankylosis spondylosis, the patient was real young, a kid, first time it was noticed was when she was a child, exercising in PE she could not touch her toes, states it's autoimmune, ongoing GERD since 30-40 years, ongoing hiatus hernia since 30-40 years, gradually gotten worse, has a lot of pain and restrictions with food intake, she should have had an operation, arthritis  since childhood, ongoing enous insufficiency since at least 25-30 years where her veins leak in her lower legs, ongoing high blood pressure since she was in her 20s, ongoing blood clotting since 30-35 years, is in a blood thinner for a long time, ongoing autoimmune since childhood, goes along with ankylosing spondylosis. The patient reported that she had been on all her regular medications for years .The patient took second vaccine on 05Mar2021 and on Sunday, 07Mar2021 she started to feel ill and she was in a lot of pain and she had some swelling in her jaw/ she could feel a little soreness and a little swelling at the right side of her jaw and near where her ear is. Since she had an appointment with her primary care doctor on Tuesday, 09Mar2021, she didn't report this. She went to see her doctor on Tuesday, 09Mar2021 and the doctor saw that her jaw was swollen and she told the doctor how painful it was and it had gotten worse overnight. The doctor prescribed her Clindamycin. She is elderly and most antibiotics she takes give her a side effect.  So she tried clindamycin. She went to the emergency room on Wednesday, 10Mar2021, she had a CAT scan and the emergency room doctor saw that her jaw was quite swollen. The emergency room doctor decided it was a parotid gland on the right side and she had received the Covid 19 vaccine on the right side. The gland there and down to her lower ear and down to her mouth, the entire jaw was swollen and very painful. The emergency room doctor gave her the same clindamycin but he increased the dose. She was discharged from the emergency department. She reports she has Parotitis on 10Mar2021. The patient received first dose of bnt162b2 (PFIZER BIONTECH COVID 19 VACCINE, formulation: solution for injection, lot number: EN6201) via an unspecified route of administration, in left arm on an unknown date in middle afternoon as dose 1, single (age at the time of vaccination 89 years) for covid-19 immunisation and experiences body pain and had pain that day afterwards and on the whole left side where she had the first shot. It would ache in one spot then another spot, then another, then another. It was like if her left hip hurt then her right hip would start hurting. She reported that she had body aches and that it hurt more at the shot site with the first Covid 19 vaccine. Her body aches have improved. Her body aches could be from the 4 different types of arthritis that she has or the ankylosing spondylitis. The patient underwent lab tests and procedures which included blood test: unknown result on 10Mar2021, computerised tomogram: swollen jaw on 10Mar2021. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of parotitis. On 10Mar2021 the patient was prescribed Clindamycin 300mg. 1 capsule every 8 hours for 21 days by her primary care doctor. The emergency room doctor prescribed Clindamycin 150mg capsules, 3 capsules every 8 hours for 7 days. She was slow to get better so the emergency room doctor increased the dosage. No Additional were administered on same date with the Pfizer vaccine. Prior to vaccinations within 4 weeks, the patient received the flu vaccine in September. The outcome of all the events she was in a lot of pain, started to feel ill and parotitis was unknown and for rest of the events was recovering.  No follow up attempts are possible. No further information is expected.