Age: 52.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Erythema, Pain in extremity, Pruritus, Rash macular
Clinical narrative: Eyes have gotten worse; red streaks going up arms and splotches/ splotchy red whelps and streaks up her arm; real red spot on wrist; her arms started stinging and itching; Hand and feet were itching off; burning; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 52-year-old female patient received the first dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE lot number: EL1283) intramuscular on the left arm on 13Jan2021 13:15 at a single dose for COVID-19 immunization. Medical history included acid reflux, antidepressant, normally wears contacts and puts reading glasses on over it. Family medical history of cancer. Concomitant medication included omeprazole (PROTONIX [OMEPRAZOLE]) for acid reflux and bupropion hydrochloride (WELLBUTRIN) as antidepressant. The patient went and got her first shot 2 weeks ago. She is a dental assistant. She woke up between 2am-3am on 13Jan2021 and her hands and feet were itching off. They were burning and itching and she did not have any rash. So Thursday, she had to work until 1. Her hands itched and she went home, took Benadryl and put Cortisone cream on hands and feet. She does not have a dose, lot or expiration for either. It would take 2 doses of Benadryl. They just continued to itch until Saturday and she went to a doc in the box and the doctor felt it was a reaction from the vaccine. You could not see anything except red where she scratched it. She gave her some medicine and she just went to pharmacy and the pharmacist said that is just like Benadryl. She started taking it and it immediately helped, but she only gave it to her for 5 days and when she finished, the itching started again. On 27Jan2021, her hands were itching off and she has red streaks going up arms and splotches. She does not have the name. It was like hydro something. She threw bottle away. She does not have a dose, lot or expiration. It improved and stopped when she was taking the medicine and on 26Jan2021, she had a real red spot on wrist, her hands have itched and itched. When her arms started stinging and itching, she pulled her sleeve up and it looks like streaks on her arms and elbows. She has these splotchy red whelps and streaks up her arm. She also noticed she had itching on her torso the day before. She needed to get glasses to see vaccine card. This was required before she took the vaccine, but she did feel like her eyes are worse all of a sudden. She normally wears contacts and puts reading glasses on over it. It has only been in the last few weeks that she has noticed this. Now, her arms were starting to itch again after a dose of Benadryl. She was worried about 2nd shot. She does not want it to get worse and continue. She would like to speak with someone to find out if it would be recommended for her to get second dose or not. No ER or physician's office required: Doctor visit on 16Jan2021 and they prescribed a medication to help with itching and burning for 5 days and it worked and when she stopped taking it, it started back. The patient did not receive any other vaccines within 4 weeks prior to the COVID vaccine. The facility where the vaccine was administered was at a Clinic for the hospital. There was no history of all previous immunization with the Pfizer vaccine considered as suspect. There were no additional vaccines administered on same date of Pfizer suspect. Outcome of the events itching and eyes have gotten worse was not recovered, events burning and pain in arm was unknown and recovering for the other events.