Loading ...Parts
BioNTech trials and three people in the Moderna trials developed Bell’s palsy, a condition that causes temporary weakness or paralysis of the facial muscles.
According to the Mayo Clinic, symptoms of Bell’s palsy may include rapid onset of mild weakness to total paralysis on one side of the face, facial droop, pain around the jaw or behind the ear, increased sensitivity to sound, headache, a loss of taste and changes in the amount of tears and saliva produced.
But Geraci says most of his patients experience mild to moderate symptoms. That could include numbness or tingling to the tongue, or maybe an off-kilter smile or less blinking in one eye than the other.
He said it’s important the public understands Bell’s palsy is just a “bogeyman side effect” and shouldn’t prevent someone from getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
“It’s a cautionary tale that should not mitigate the larger good that both individuals and society are going to derive from all of these vaccines,” Geraci said.
comment: My friends wife developed a droopy face and it was a brain cancer tumor. Two other people I knew that were always on the phone got tumors. I always use speaker phone since they came out with wireless land lines.
Wherever there is a plus, there is also a minus.