Age: 67.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Taste disorder
Clinical narrative: her tasted buds are off. She said she hasn't loss her sense of taste, but that everything tastes funny; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (Patient herself). A 67-year-old female received second dose BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Lot number: EM9810, Expiration Date: 30Jun2021) via an unspecified route of administration in the left arm on 11Feb2021 09:48 at SINGLE DOSE for COVID-19 Immunization. The patients had no medical history and concomitant medications were not reported. Reported she had her annual flu shot in either last Oct2020 or Nov2020. The patient received first dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Lot number: EL1283, Expiration Date: Not reported) via an unspecified route of administration in the left arm on 21Jan2021 at SINGLE DOSE for COVID-19 Immunization and she has had an issue with her lips swelling since she started wearing a face mask in Mar2020. She said her lip swelling has gotten worse since her first COVID-19 Vaccine dose in Jan2021, not recovered. There was no investigational assessment. The patient experienced her tasted buds are off. She said she hasn't loss her sense of taste, but that everything tastes funny on 11Feb2021. The patient received her second dose of the vaccine on 11Feb2021 and since then her taste buds have been off and everything is tasting funny. Additionally, she has been experiencing problems with her lips swelling every since she started wearing a mask but it has seemed to get worse since the vaccine. She asked if these are normal symptoms. She stated she was supposed to go to her dentist on Thursday and was going to get them to check. she has had an issue with her lips swelling since she started wearing a face mask in Mar2020. She said her lip swelling has gotten worse since her first COVID-19 Vaccine dose in Jan2021. was reported as worsened. Reported she took her second Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine shot last Thursday, 11Feb2021. She said since Thursday evening (11Feb2021), her tasted buds are off. She said she hasn't loss her sense of taste, but that everything tastes funny. She said she didn't see anything with taste listed as a side effect of the COVID-19 Vaccine, and would like to speak with someone about that. The reporter stated she ate pork rinds, the pork rinds tasted like cardboard. She said she can taste sweets and spices without an issue. She said her coffee tastes different. She said she can taste the sweetness of the coffee, but the coffee doesn't taste like coffee. Reported she had got her second COVID-19 Vaccine shot about midday on Thursday, 11Feb2021, and when she cooked dinner that night, she couldn't really get a taste for her food. Reported with her altered taste there is a sweetness lingering. Reported her lips keep swelling up. She said she has had the issue with her lips swelling since she started wearing a face mask in Mar2020. She said her lip swelling has gotten worse since her first COVID-19 Vaccine dose in Jan2021. She said she doesn't know if there is something going on medically to cause her lip swelling. She said she had an appointment this Thursday with her dentist that she had to rescheduled for next month due to an impending ice storm. She said since Jan2021, she has had some dry, cracked lips, and her lip swelling is worse. Lips Swelling Treatment: Reported she has taken Benadryl for her lip swelling, Benadryl 25 mg tablet. Reported the Benadryl NDC Number was so small she needed to switch glasses in order to read the NDC Number. She said the different pair of glasses she tried didn't help, so she needed to grab another pair of glasses to read the Benadryl NDC Number. She stated she had no difficulty at all reading the Benadryl Lot Number and Expiration Date. Altered Taste Treatment: Stated she keeps rinsing her mouth with warm salt water. She said she has been rinsing her mouth with warm salt water since Jan2021. Reported she had her annual flu shot in either last Oct2020 or Nov2020. Reported she started a low carb diet at the end of Dec2020 or beginning of Jan2021. She said her low carb diet is medically controlled by a doctor. She said she had an appointment this afternoon with the doctor. The event assessed as non-serious by the reporter. The patient did not visited emergency room and not visited physician office. There were no relevant test performed. The outcome of the event was recovering.   No follow-up attempts are possible. No further information is expected.