Age: 82.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Cerebrovascular accident, Dermatitis, Pruritus, Rash morbilliform, Scratch
Clinical narrative: Rash: all over his body, like measles, on his back, arms, and legs/ terrible measle like rash all over my body except for my face; The itching was so bad that I scratched myself to the point of drawing blood; Itching, worse itching he ever experienced/ intense itching all over my body/worse itching/ itching was so bad; they called it, Dermatitis.; he thought he was having a stroke.; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). This is report 1 of 2.   An 82-years-old male patient received second dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, solution for injection; Batch/Lot Number: EN6208; NDC/expiration: unknown) via an unspecified route of administration, administered at arm right on 22Mar2021 at 10:00 (at the age of 82-years-old) as dose 2, single for covid-19 immunization. Medical history included ongoing high blood pressure diagnosed many years ago, ongoing high cholesterol which was diagnosed around the same that his high blood pressure, ongoing type 2 diabetes mellitus diagnosed when he was in his 20's and he does not take any medications for his type 2 diabetes. The patient did not receive other products. No investigation assessment was reported. He stated several family members had the Moderna Covid vaccine, and they had some negative reactions. There were no additional vaccines administered on same date of the Pfizer suspect. The patient did not receive any prior vaccinations (within 4 weeks prior to the COVID vaccine) and no adverse events were reported following prior vaccinations. Family medical history relevant to adverse event was not provided. His other family members had flu like symptoms, and they were all females. Prior to vaccination, the patient was not diagnosed with COVID-19. Since the vaccination, the patient had not been tested for COVID-19. Concomitant medications received within 2 weeks of vaccination included rosuvastatin calcium (CRESTOR); losartan (LOSARTAN); propranolol; primidone (MYSOLINE) and acetylsalicylic acid (ASPIRIN (E.C.)) all taken for an unspecified indication, start and stop date were not reported. He had been taking the same medications for years and never had any negative reactions. Patient previously received first dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE; Lot: EN6200; expiry date: unknown), via unspecified route of administration, administered on right arm on 01Mar2021 at 10:00 for COVID-19 immunization. The patient experienced terrible reaction 3 weeks after the second vaccine. He woke up in the morning, turned on light and saw that he had rash all over his body (except for face), like measles, on his back, arms, and legs, intense itching all over body, worse itching he ever experienced in his life on 11Apr2021. The itching was so bad that he scratched himself to the point of drawing blood. He thought he was having a stroke. When he went to urgent care, he was treated with 2 injections Benadryl and steroid (Lot or expiration date was unknown). He was also treated with Pepcid. The injections did not help his symptoms. In the urgent care they didn't knew what the rash was and later clarified that they called it dermatitis. He stated that the staff did not thought that it was not related to the vaccine. He reclarified that when he was at urgent care, the staff told him that he should feel better in the evening, but by midnight, he decided to go to the emergency room. In the emergency room, he was given Tagamet, Hydroxyzine, and Prednisone. The rash went away and reported that itching was present, but not as bad as it was before. He reported that he took Hydroxyzine as prescribed, and after about 20 minutes, his itching diminishes but then in the evening he started to itch again. Later in the report it was mentioned that for some days he only has to take it once a day and sometimes he can skip a day when he was not itching. He was treated and released from the emergency room. The patient went to dermatologist and neurologist and no one could tell him why he had itching, no one had come up with a treatment as he was still itching. The patient stated that he called because he was reading information about the side effects and learned that the vaccine may cause a rash. Relevant tests were reported as none. Device date was reported as 22Jun2021. The outcome of the rash was recovered completely in 2021, for scratch and pruritus was not resolved and for stroke and dermatitis was unknown.