Health Boards
Sun-30-05-2021, 10:48 AM
(Sun-30-05-2021, 01:32 AM)Raxyl Wrote: Depends on the vaccine here in Australia, AstraZeneca is two doses 12 weeks apart, the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is two doses three weeks apart. I have had my first dose of AstraZeneca my next on is booked for the 30th of June.
Why don't they all agree, surely it would make sense to have everyone singing from the same sheet so they could pool the information.
(Sun-30-05-2021, 06:44 AM)Caroline Wrote: Confirmed in an article over here, people on certain immunosuppressants have a lover response on the vaccine.
Specifically methotrexate and rituximab are being mentioned. Sources are several research publications in a.o. the US.
A researcher says: “We believe that the underlying chronic immune stimulation in autoimmune patients may lead to T-cell depletion and thus an attenuation of the immune response. In addition, specific drugs, such as methotrexate, can interfere with the immune response.“
Now psoriasis is no typical auto immune disease, but it it treated with the same kind of medications.
I posted a thread recently about methotrexate Methotrexate and Covid vaccine