Vaccines: side effects on the menstrual cycle, what you need to know

While many women have noticed the effects of the coronavirus vaccine on their menstrual cycle, Closer invites you to take stock of these adverse effects.

What to increase the anti-vaccine feeling? For several months, many women have described problems in their menstrual cycle. Side effects and undesirable effects which would be related to coronavirus vaccine. Among these, longer periods, delays, from heavy bleeding or outside the rules, which only complicate the daily life of women. Others experience other surprising consequences of the vaccine. “There are also rarer cases of women who report no not having had their period for one or more months “, explained midwife Laura Baena-Garcia to the magazine She this Tuesday, November 9. The latter is very interested in the subject and has even launched a research unit at the University of Granada in Spain.

The findings are of concern to members of the public while the anti-Covid-19 vaccine has been at the heart of rumors that he may have an impact on fertility. But what are these side effects due to? “We don’t know exactly yet“, admitted Laura Baena-Garcia.”We carry out tests on venous blood with different variables related to coagulation, female hormones and certain immunological parameters. We think that all these disorders are probably related to this last variable, and that it would be a question of altered immune response to the vaccine.“Science will also have to find out”if any of the vaccines are more frequently combined with menstrual disturbances“, according to the expert.”At the moment, this is not the case.“ All vaccines would therefore be affected by these effects.

The coronavirus also has an impact

Note all the same that the coronavirus itself has effects on menstruation. “There are studies that show that some women who contract the disease have had menstruation problems“Says the midwife. Situations far from surprising, “especially for the most serious cases“and which can be explained by the inflammatory response”particularly acute“that would happen in such a case.

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