Age: 79.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Heart rate, Heart rate increased, Pruritus, Rash
Clinical narrative: she had a full body rash. It was not on her torso, but was on her chest early in the day. The rash was mostly on both arms and both legs. It was a flat rash and did not itch; itching on her left arm below the injection site, but it felt like it was coming from the inside; Rapid heart rate; This is a spontaneous report from a Pfizer sponsored program. A contactable consumer (patient) reported that a 79-year-old female patient received BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 mRNA VACCINE; Solution for injection; Batch/Lot Number: EL9269, Expiry date, NDC number: Unknown), via an unspecified route of administration, administered in left arm on 06Feb2021 at 02:00 PM (age at vaccination was 79 years) as dose 1, single for covid-19 immunisation. Medical history included the patient has had reactions to multiple medications, includes; penicillin, erythromycin, macrodantin, and ceclor. The patient has also had reactions to sulfa drugs, but was able take a sulfa drug recently by eating a yogurt 15 minutes before taking it; this was about 2 years ago. The patient states, that Vicodin makes her looney, like walking into walls and stuff and the patient was prescribed Tramadol HCL when she broke her wrist a few years ago, and the patient later found out that it was basically Vicodin. She has also had reactions to Clindamycin, minocycline, and myrbetriq, but she doesn't remember what the reactions were. Family medical history relevant to adverse event was unknown. There were no concomitant medications. The patient calling about the Covid-19 Vaccine. The patient states that she signed up for the (unlisted) Program, but it would not pull up for the days that she needed it. She tried to call them twice and each time they tried to sell her something, so she hung up. The patient got her first dose of the vaccine on 06Feb2021 at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Everything was fine that day. It didn't hurt. The patient couldn't tell she had it. Then, the next morning she turned the light on and laid there. On 07Feb2021, Sunday morning, when the patient woke up noticed that she had a rapid heart rate; She doesn't know if it was like that when she was asleep. It took it 3-4 minutes since she noticed it to go away. The morning of the 08Feb2021 on Monday, she was fine. In the afternoon, late that evening, the patient started to have itching on her left arm below the injection site, but it felt like it was coming from the inside; it was the whole section from the injection site down toward her elbow and it lasted the rest of the day. On 09Feb2021, Tuesday, when the patient woke up she had a full body rash. It was not on her torso but was on her upper chest early in the day. It lasted through the evening. It was a flat rash and that is it. The rash was mostly on both arms and both legs. It was a flat rash and did not itch. Today, she feels fine. States that she did contact her doctor yesterday, and was told to take Benadryl, which did help. It's hard for her to tell, but it doesn't look like she has the rash anymore. States that she was so concerned about the rash yesterday that she also called an urgent care to find out if the rash needed to be treated any other way but was not given any other recommendations. She wants to know if it is still safe for her to get the 2nd dose of the vaccine after having these reactions. Consumer said she already spoke with DSU. No adverse events require a visit to emergency room and physician office, but she did call her doctor and an urgent care about the rash. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of the events with unknown medication as the patient also called an urgent care to find out if the rash needed to be treated any other way but was not given any other recommendations. Outcome of the event rapid heart rate was recovered on 07Feb2021, Itching was recovered on 08Feb2021 and other event was recovered on 10Feb2021.  Follow-up attempts are completed. No further information is expected.